Original listings of longest-living state leaders

Gallery

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  Oldest ever:
  Turkey
  Celål Bayar
  served 1937–1939, 1950–1960

• Chau-Sen-Cocsal-Chhum.jpg

  2nd-Oldest ever:
   Cambodia
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 1962

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  3rd-Oldest ever:
   France
  served: 1962

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  4th-oldest ever:
   Japan
  Prince Naruhikko Higashikuni
  served: 1972–1976

List

Color	Note
	Living State Leaders

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Celâl Bayar	Turkey	Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960)	1883	1986	103 years, 98 days
2	Antoine Pinay	France	Prime Minister (1952–1953)	1891	1994	102 years, 343 days
3	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	Acting Prime Minister (1962)	1905	alive	101 years, 336 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	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
8	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
13	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 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
21	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	2012	98 years, 350 days
13	Anthony Mamo	Malta	Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	alive	98 years, 206 days
12-22	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
24	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
16	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	97 years, 83 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
28	Aden Adde	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 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
34	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
24	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	alive	97 years, 148 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
27	Abdel Halim Muhamad	Sudan	President (1975–1980)	1910	alive	97 years, 116 days
28	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	alive	97 years, 115 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
31	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	President (1960–1962)	1910	alive	97 years, 16 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
34	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	Alive	96 years, 242 days
24–35	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	alive	96 years, 215 days to 97 years, 214 days
36	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	Acting President (1963)	1911	Alive	96 years, 355 days
38	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	Alive	96 years, 140 days
44	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
45	Federico Páez	Ecuador	President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
46	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
47	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
48	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days
49	Alejandro Deustua	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
50	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
51	Federico Chaves	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
52	Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
53	João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
49	Abdul Salam Sabrah	Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	Alive	95 years, 214 days
54	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
55	Joaquin Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days
56	Tomás Romero Pereira	Paraguay	Provisional President (1954)	1886	1982	95 years, 312 days
57	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	2008	95 years, 274 days
58	Juan José Estrada	Nicaragua	President (1910–1911)	1872	1967	95 years, 191 days
59	Pote Sarasin	Thailand	Prime Minister (1957)	1905	2000	95 years, 187 days
60	Tahar Ben Ammar	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956)	1889	1985	95 years, 166 days
61	Paal Berg	Norway	Acting Head of State (1945)	1873	1966	95 years, 126 days
56	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	Alive	94 years, 361 days
62	Philippe Pétain	France/Vichy France	Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944)	1856	1951	95 years, 90 days
63	Hassan al-Hakim	Syria	Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951)	1886	1982	95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days
64	Léopold Sédar Senghor	Senegal	President (1960-1980)	1906	2001	95 years, 72 days
65	Petar Stambolić	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister (1963-1967) President (1982-1983)	1912	2007	95 years, 71 days
66	Pak Song-chol	North Korea	Premier (1976-1977)	1913	2008	95 years, 56 days
67	Nguyễn Vãn Tâm	South Vietnam	Prime Minister (1952–1954)	1895	1990	95 years, 48 days
68	Max Petitpierre	Switzerland	President (1950, 1955, 1960)	1899	1994	95 years, 27 days
69	Saeb Salam	Lebanon	Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973)	1905	2000	95 years, 4 days
70	Hassan ibn Yahya	Yemen	Prime Minister (1948–1955)	1908	2003	95 years, 0 days
54–70	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	Alive	97 years, 1 day to 98 years, 0 days
48–64	Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	Alive	94 years, 215 days to
71	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
66	Fred Degazon	Dominica	President (1979–1980)	1913	alive	94 years, 211 days
73	Juliana	Netherlands	Queen (1948–1980)	1909	2004	94 years, 325 days
74	Emilio Aguinaldo	Philippines	President (1899–1901)	1869	1964	94 years, 321 days
75	Constantin Ion Parhon	Romania	President (1948-1952)	1874	1969	94 years, 298 days
76	Maarouf al-Dawalibi	Syria	Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962)	1909	2004	94 years, 292 days
77	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas	Nicaragua	President (1917-1921)	1871	1966	94 years, 291 days
78	Martti Miettunen	Finland	Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977)	1907	2002	94 years, 277 days
74	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	Alive	94 years, 126 days
79	Sanya Dharmasakti	Thailand	Prime Minister (1973–1975)	1907	2002	94 years, 276 days
80	Emilio Bello Codesido	Chile	President (1925)	1868	1863	94 years, 233 days
78	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955)	1913	Alive	94 years, 79 days
81	Pierre Graber	Switzerland	President (1975)	1908	2003	94 years, 225 days
82	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol	Guatemala	President of Guatemala|President}} (1865)	1802	1897	94 years, 207 days
83	Héctor Trujillo	Ecuador	President (1952–1960)	1908	2002	94 years, 196 days
84	Wijeyananda Dahayanake	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister (1959–1960)	1902	1997	94 years, 194 days
85	Giorgios Athanasiadis-Novas	Greece	Prime Minister (1965)	1893	1987	94 years, 182 days
86	Charles de Freycinet	France	Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892)	1828	1923	94 years, 181 days
87	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993)	1913	2007	94 years, 127 days
88	Charles Tupper	Canada	Prime Minister (1896)	1821	1915	94 years, 120 days
89	Garfield Todd	Southern Rhodesia	Prime Minister (1953–1958)	1908	2002	94 years, 92 days
90	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	Alive	93 years, 303 days
91	Phạm Vãn Đồng	North Vietnam  State of Vietnam	Prime Minister (1955–1987)	1906	2000	94 years, 59 days
92	Herbert Duffus	Jamaica	Acting Governor-General (1973)	1908	2002	94 years, 56 days
93	H.E. Muhammad Fahdel al-Jamali	Iraq	Prime Minister (1953–1954)	1903	1997	94 years, 34 days
93	C. Rajogopalachari	India	Governor-General (1946–1950)	1878	1972	94 years, 15 days
94	Alfonso López Michelsen	Colombia	President (1972–1976)	1913	2007	94 years, 11 days
95	Carlos Mancheno Cajas	Ecuador	Jefe Supremo (1947)	1902	1996	94 years, 2 days
96	Paul Magloire	Haiti	President (1950–1956)	1907	2001	93 years, 358 days
97	Mackenzie Bowell	Canada	Prime Minister (1894–1896)	1823	1917	93 years, 348 days
98	José Bordas Valdez	Dominican Republic	Provisional President (1913-1914)	1874	1968	93 years, 341 days
99	Tiburcio Carías Andino	Honduras	President (1932–1949)	1876	1979	93 years, 293 days
100	Paolo Boselli	Italy	Prime Minister (1916-1917, 1925-1926)	1838	1932	93 years, 276 days

See Also

• List of longest-living state leaders (current)