Past longest-living state leaders

List

Name	State	Position	Born	Died	Age
Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
Arnold Rüütel	Estonia	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1990-1992) President (2001&ndash:2006)	1928	2024	96 years, 235 days
Yang Hyong-sop	North Korea	Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (1983-1998)	1925	2022	96 years, 224 days
Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
Pedro Richter Prada	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1921	2017	96 years, 191 days
Elizabeth II	United Kingdom	Queen (1952–2022)	1926	2022	96 years, 140 days
Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	2013	102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 364 days
Alejandro Deustua	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
Abderrahmane Youssoufi	Morocco	Prime Minister (1998-2002)	1924	2020	96 years, 82 days
Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
Federico Chaves	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
Mario Echandi Jiménez	Costa Rica	President (1958–1962)	1915	2011	96 years, 43 days
Michael I	Romania	King (1927–1930; 1940–1947)	1921	2017	96 years, 41 days
João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
Dom Mintoff	Malta	Prime Minister(1955–1958; 1971–1984)	1916	2012	96 years, 14 days
Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
Joaquin Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
Tomás Romero Pereira	Paraguay	Provisional President (1954)	1886	1982	95 years, 312 days
Belisario Betancur	Colombia	President (1982–1986)	1923	2018	95 years, 306 days
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Italy	Prime Minister (1993–1994) President (1999–2006)	1920	2016	95 years, 282 days
Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	2008	95 years, 274 days
Juan José Estrada	Nicaragua	President (1910–1911)	1872	1967	95 years, 191 days
Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
Antonio Imbert Barrera	Dominican Republic	President (1965)	1920	2016	95 years, 180 days
Tahar Ben Ammar	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956)	1889	1985	95 years, 166 days
Cuthbert Sebastian	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General (1996-2013)	1921	2017	95 years, 154 days
Roberto Marcelo Levingston	Argentina	Acting President (1970–1971)	1920	2015	95 years, 151 days
Nelson Mandela	South Africa	President (1994–1999)	1918	2013	95 years, 140 days
Paal Berg	Norway	Acting Head of State (1945)	1873	1966	95 years, 126 days
Sixto Durán Ballén	Ecuador	President (1992-1996)	1921	2016	95 years, 124 days
Ahmed Ben Bella	Algeria	President (1963-1965)	1916	2012	95 years, 108 days
Philippe Pétain	France/Vichy France	Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944)	1856	1951	95 years, 90 days
Hassan al-Hakim	Syria	Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951)	1886	1982	95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days
Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960-1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963-1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
Anibal Portillo	El Salvador	Member of the Civic Military Directory (1961-1962)	1914	2010	95 years, 57 days
Pak Song-chol	North Korea	Premier (1976-1977)	1913	2008	95 years, 56 days
Nguyễn Vãn Tâm	South Vietnam	Prime Minister (1952–1954)	1895	1990	95 years, 48 days
Max Petitpierre	Switzerland	President (1950, 1955, 1960)	1899	1994	95 years, 27 days
Dušan Dragosavac	Yugoslavia	President of the Presidency (1981–1982)	1919	2014	95 years, 20 days
Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
Hassan ibn Yahya	Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido<	Venezuela	Interim President (1892)	1854	1949	94 years, 362 days
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	Peru	President (1945–1948)	1894	1989
Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
Emilio Aguinaldo	Philippines	President (1899–1901)	1869	1964	94 years, 321 days
Constantin Ion Parhon	Romania	President (1948-1952)	1874	1969	94 years, 298 days
Maarouf al-Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
Emiliano Chamorro Vargas	Nicaragua	President (1917-1921)	1871	1966	94 years, 291 days
Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
Naji Talib	Iraq	Prime Minister (1966-1967)	1917	2012	94 years, 266 days
Kiro Gligorov	Macedonia	President (1991–1999)	1917	2012	94 years, 243 days
Emilio Bello Codesido	Chile	President (1925)	1868	1863	94 years, 233 days
Pierre Graber	Switzerland	President (1975)	1908	2003	94 years, 225 days
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President of Guatemala|President}} (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
Wijeyananda Dahayanake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
Giorgios Athanasiadis-Novas	Greece	Prime Minister (1965)	1893	1987	94 years, 182 days
Charles de Freycinet	France	Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892)	1828	1923	94 years, 181 days
Allan Louisy	Saint Lucia	Prime Minister (1979–1981)	1916	2011	94 years, 176 days
Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
Charles Tupper	Canada	Prime Minister (1896)	1821	1915	94 years, 120 days
Fernando Agüero	Nicaragua	President of the Triumvirate (1972–1973)	1917	2012	94 years, 106 days
Garfield Todd	Southern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953–1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
Phạm Vãn Đồng	North Vietnam  State of Vietnam	Prime Minister (1955–1987)	1906	2000	94 years, 59 days
Herbert Duffus	Jamaica	Acting Governor-General (1973)	1908	2002	94 years, 56 days
C. Rajogopalachari	India	Governor-General (1946–1950)	1878	1972	94 years, 15 days
Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	2007	94 years, 11 days
Carlos Mancheno Cajas	Ecuador	Jefe Supremo (1947)	1902	1996	94 years, 2 days
Paul Magloire	Haiti	President (1950–1956)	1907	2001	93 years, 358 days
Mackenzie Bowell	Canada	Prime Minister (1894–1896)	1823	1917	93 years, 348 days
José Bordas Valdez	Dominican Republic	Provisional President (1913-1914)	1874	1968	93 years, 341 days

As of 01 January 2008

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	2009	103 years, 143 days
2	Celâl Bayar	Turkey	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883	1986	103 years, 98 days
3	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	1891	1994	102 years, 343 days
4	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887	1990	102 years, 48 days
5	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1889	1990	101 years, 314 days
6	Zhang Qun	Taiwan	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
7	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting Leader (1963)	1911	2012	101 years, 64 days
8	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
9	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Acting President (1966)	1912	2013	100 years, 304 days
10	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
11	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	2012	100 years, 32 days
12	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	2010	99 years, 237 days
13	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 days
14	Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	2012	99 years, 164 days to 100 years, 163 days
15	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	2008	99 years, 113 days
16	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
17	Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892	1991	99 years, 92 days
18	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896	1995	99 years, 41 days
19	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	2011	99 years, 32 days
20	Abdel Halim Muhammad	Sudan	Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)	1910	2009	99 years, 6 days
21	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	2012	98 years, 350 days
22	Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997	98 years, 329 days to 99 years, 328 days
23	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	2009	98 years, 244 days
24	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
25	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879	1978	98 years, 203 days
26	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874	1973	98 years, 196 days
27	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1960–1962)	1910	2009	98 years, 191 days
28	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
29	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	2008	98 years, 153 days
30	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Prime Minister (1919)	1879	1977	98 years, 123 days
31	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818	1916	98 years, 112 days
32	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
33	R. Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	2009	98 years, 54 days
34	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
35	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	2008	98 years, 13 days
36	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888	1985	97 years, 289 days
37	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Austria	Minister-President (1870)	1810	1908	97 years, 272 days
38	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Ireland	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866	1963	97 years, 267 days
39	He Yingqin	Taiwan	Premier (1949)	1890	1987	97 years, 202 days
40	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872	1969	97 years, 152 days
41	Ion Gheorghe Maurer	Romania	President of the Presidium (1958–1961) Acting President of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974)	1902	2000	97 years, 138 days
42	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	2011	97 years, 123 days
43	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	2010	97 years, 97 days
44	Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
45	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuva	Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	2008	96 years, 308 days
46	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
47	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
48	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
49	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
50	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
51	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	2013	102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 364 days
52	Alejandro Deustua	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
53	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
54	Federico Chaves	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
55	Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
56	João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
57	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
58	Joaquin Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
59	Tomás Romero Pereira	Paraguay	Provisional President (1954)	1886	1982	95 years, 312 days
60	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	2008	95 years, 274 days
61	Juan José Estrada	Nicaragua	President (1910–1911)	1872	1967	95 years, 191 days
62	Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
63	Tahar Ben Ammar	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956)	1889	1985	95 years, 166 days
64	Paal Berg	Norway	Acting Head of State (1945)	1873	1966	95 years, 126 days
65	Philippe Pétain	France/Vichy France	Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944)	1856	1951	95 years, 90 days
66	Hassan al-Hakim	Syria	Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951)	1886	1982	95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days
67	Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960-1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
68	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963-1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
69	Pak Song-chol	North Korea	Premier (1976-1977)	1913	2008	95 years, 56 days
70	Nguyễn Vãn Tâm	South Vietnam	Prime Minister (1952–1954)	1895	1990	95 years, 48 days
71	Max Petitpierre	Switzerland	President (1950, 1955, 1960)	1899	1994	95 years, 27 days
72	Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
73	Hassan ibn Yahya	Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
74	Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido<	Venezuela	Interim President (1892)	1854	1949	94 years, 362 days
	José Luis Bustamante y Rivero	Peru	President (1945–1948)	1894	1989
76	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
77	Emilio Aguinaldo	Philippines	President (1899–1901)	1869	1964	94 years, 321 days
78	Constantin Ion Parhon	Romania	President (1948-1952)	1874	1969	94 years, 298 days
79	Maarouf al-Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
80	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas	Nicaragua	President (1917-1921)	1871	1966	94 years, 291 days
81	Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
82	Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
83	Emilio Bello Codesido	Chile	President (1925)	1868	1863	94 years, 233 days
84	Pierre Graber	Switzerland	President (1975)	1908	2003	94 years, 225 days
85	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President of Guatemala|President}} (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
86	Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
87	Wijeyananda Dahayanake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
88	Giorgios Athanasiadis-Novas	Greece	Prime Minister (1965)	1893	1987	94 years, 182 days
89	Charles de Freycinet	France	Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892)	1828	1923	94 years, 181 days
91	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
92	Charles Tupper	Canada	Prime Minister (1896)	1821	1915	94 years, 120 days
93	Garfield Todd	Southern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953–1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
94	Phạm Vãn Đồng	North Vietnam  State of Vietnam	Prime Minister (1955–1987)	1906	2000	94 years, 59 days
95	Herbert Duffus	Jamaica	Acting Governor-General (1973)	1908	2002	94 years, 56 days
96	C. Rajogopalachari	India	Governor-General (1946–1950)	1878	1972	94 years, 15 days
97	Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	2007	94 years, 11 days
98	Carlos Mancheno Cajas	Ecuador	Jefe Supremo (1947)	1902	1996	94 years, 2 days
99	Paul Magloire	Haiti	President (1950–1956)	1907	2001	93 years, 358 days
100	Mackenzie Bowell	Canada	Prime Minister (1894–1896)	1823	1917	93 years, 348 days

See Also

• List of longest-living state leaders
• Original listings of longest-living cardinals and state leaders
• Original listings of longest-living state leaders