Lists of state leaders by age

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This article contains various lists of state leaders organized by age, defined as heads of state and/or heads of government. Typically this list includes presidents, prime ministers or monarchs. There are approximately 360 current leaders.

10 oldest currently serving state leaders

Main article: List of the oldest living state leaders

People currently serving as head of state, representative of a Head of State, and/or head of government. There are approximately 360 current leaders.

Leaders for life

Rank Name Born Age Position Assumed office
1 Elizabeth II (1926-04-21)21 April 1926 98 years, 14 days Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other countries 1952
2 Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (1929-06-16)16 June 1929 94 years, 324 days Emir of Kuwait 2006
3 Sir Elliott Belgrave (1931-03-16)16 March 1931 93 years, 50 days Governor-General of Barbados 2012
4 Dame Marguerite Pindling (1932-06-26)26 June 1932 91 years, 314 days Governor-General of the Bahamas 2014
5 Sir Colville Young (1932-11-20)20 November 1932 91 years, 167 days Governor-General of Belize 1993
6 Akihito (1933-12-23)23 December 1933 90 years, 134 days Emperor of Japan 1989
7 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1935-12-31)31 December 1935 88 years, 126 days King of Saudi Arabia 2015
8 Sir Frederick Ballantyne (1936-07-05)5 July 1936 87 years, 305 days Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2002
9 Pope Francis (1936-12-17)17 December 1936 87 years, 140 days Sovereign of the Vatican City 2013
10 Harald V (1937-02-21)21 February 1937 87 years, 74 days King of Norway 1991

Term-bounded leaders

Rank Name Born Age Position Assumed office
1 Robert Mugabe (1924-02-21)21 February 1924 100 years, 74 days President of Zimbabwe 1987
2 Beji Caid Essebsi (1926-11-29)29 November 1926 97 years, 158 days President of Tunisia 2014
3 Abdul Halim (1927-11-28)28 November 1927 96 years, 159 days King of Malaysia 2011
4 Kim Yong-nam (1928-02-04)4 February 1928 96 years, 91 days Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea 1998
5 Sir Anerood Jugnauth (1930-03-29)29 March 1930 94 years, 37 days Prime Minister of Mauritius 2014
6 Raúl Castro (1931-06-03)3 June 1931 92 years, 337 days President of Cuba 2008
7 Paul Biya (1933-02-13)13 February 1933 91 years, 82 days President of Cameroon 1982
8 Michel Aoun (1933-09-30)30 September 1933 90 years, 218 days President of Lebanon 2016
9 Artur Rasizade (1935-02-26)26 February 1935 89 years, 69 days Prime Minister of Azerbaijan 2003
10 Mahmoud Abbas (1935-03-26)26 March 1935 89 years, 40 days President of Palestine 2005

10 oldest ever serving state leaders

Leaders still serving are highlighted in italicized bold.

Leaders for life

Rank Name Position Last year in office
(reason term ended) 		Age at end
1 Abdul Momin Sultan of Brunei 1885 (death) 99 years, 5 months (?)[1]
2 Enrico Dandolo Doge of Venice 1205 (death) 97 years, 4 months (?)[2]
3 Giovanni Paolo Lascaris Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller 1657 (death) 97 years, 47 days
4 Prem Tinsulanonda Regent of Thailand 2016 (term ended) 96 years, 97 days
5 Nicolò da Ponte Doge of Venice 1585 (death) 94 years, 196 days
6 Malietoa Tanumafili II Malietoa of Samoa 2007 (death) 94 years, 127 days
7 Leo XIII Pope of the Holy See 1903 (death) 93 years, 140 days
8 Gustaf V King of Sweden 1950 (death) 92 years, 135 days
9 Manuel Pinto de Fonseca Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller 1773 (death) 91 years, 244 days
10 Sir Cuthbert Sebastian Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis 2013 (retirement) 91 years, 72 days

Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821-1912) died in office at 91 years 276 days of age.

Term-bonded leaders

Rank Name Position Last year in office
(reason term ended) 		Age at end
1 Hastings Banda President of Malawi 1994 (lost election) 96 years, 10 days
2 Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe Incumbent 100 years, 74 days
3 Tôn Đức Thắng President of Vietnam 1980 (death) 91 years, 223 days
4 Shimon Peres President of Israel 2014 (term ended) 90 years, 356 days
5 Eamon De Valera President of Ireland 1973 (term ended) 90 years, 253 days
6 Beji Caid Essebsi President of Tunisia Incumbent 97 years, 158 days
7 Joaquin Balaguer President of the Dominican Republic 1996 (term ended) 89 years, 350 days
8 Giorgio Napolitano President of Italy 2015 (resignation) 89 years, 199 days
9 Abdul Halim of Kedah King of Malaysia Incumbent 96 years, 159 days
10 Luis Alberto Sánchez Prime Minister of Peru 1989 (resignation) 88 years, 353 days

Longest lived state leaders

The following lists are the top ten all-time state leaders and the top ten living. For Top 100 lists see List of longest-living state leaders and List of the oldest living state leaders.

Top ten since 1800

Rank Name Position Birth Death Age
1 Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum Prime Minister of Cambodia (1962) 1905 2009 103 years, 135 days
2 Celâl Bayar Prime Minister of Turkey (1937–1939)
President (1950–1960)		 1883 1986 103 years, 98 days
3 Antoine Pinay Prime Minister of France (1952–1953) 1891 1994 102 years, 348 days
4 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Chief Minister of Sikkim (1974–1975) 1904 2007 102 years, 290 days
5 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni Prime Minister of Japan (1945) 1887 1990 102 years, 48 days
6 Ek Yi Oun Prime Minister of Cambodia (1958) 1910 2013 102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 364 days
7 Willem Drees Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) 1886 1988 101 years, 314 days
8 Zhang Qun Premier of the Republic of China (1947–1948) 1889 1990 101 years, 219 days
9 Piet de Jong Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1967–1971) 1915 2016 101 years, 115 days
10 Bernardino González Ruíz President of Panama (1963) 1911 2012 101 years, 64 days

Top ten living

Rank Name Position Birth Age
1 Đỗ Mười Prime Minister of Vietnam (1988–1991), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1991–1997) (1917-02-02)2 February 1917 107 years, 93 days
2 Babiker Awadalla Prime Minister of Sudan (1969) (1917-03-02)2 March 1917 107 years, 64 days
3 Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister of Japan (1982–1987) (1918-05-27)27 May 1918 105 years, 344 days
4 Konstantinos Mitsotakis Prime Minister of Greece (1990–1993) (1918-10-18)18 October 1918 105 years, 200 days
5 Hyun Soong-jong Prime Minister of South Korea (1992–1993) (1919-01-26)26 January 1919 105 years, 100 days
6 Mohammed Karim Lamrani Prime Minister of Morocco (1971–1972, 1983–1986, 1992–1994) (1919-05-01)1 May 1919 105 years, 4 days
7 Hau Pei-tsun Premier of the Republic of China (1990–1993) (1919-07-13)13 July 1919 104 years, 297 days
8 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Prime Minister of Peru (2000–2003) (1920-01-19)19 January 1920 104 years, 107 days
9 Josip Manolić Prime Minister of Croatia (1990–1991) (1920-03-22)22 March 1920 104 years, 44 days
10 Liam Cosgrave Taoiseach of Ireland (1973–1977) (1920-04-13)13 April 1920 104 years, 22 days

10 youngest serving state leaders

Main article: List of youngest state leaders since 1900
  1. Kim Jong-un (Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011), born (1984-01-08) 8 January 1984 (age 40)
  2. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Emir of Qatar since 2013), born (1980-06-03) 3 June 1980 (age 43)
  3. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (King of Bhutan since 2006), born (1980-02-21) 21 February 1980 (age 44)
  4. Emil Dimitriev (Interim Prime Minister of Macedonia since 2016), born (1979-03-19) 19 March 1979 (age 45)
  5. Saleh Ali al-Sammad (President of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen since 2016), born (1979-01-01) 1 January 1979 (age 45)
  6. Jüri Ratas (Prime Minister of Estonia since 2016), born (1978-07-02) 2 July 1978 (age 45)
  7. Volodymyr Groysman (Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2016), born (1978-01-20) 20 January 1978 (age 46)
  8. Charles Michel (Prime Minister of Belgium since 2014), born (1975-12-21) 21 December 1975 (age 48)
  9. Youssef Chahed (Head of Government of Tunisia since 2016), born (1975-09-18) 18 September 1975 (age 48)
  10. Matteo Renzi (Prime Minister of Italy since 2014), born (1975-01-11) 11 January 1975 (age 49)

10 youngest state leaders (since 1945)

Age at the time they took office ordered youngest first. For a longer list, see List of youngest state leaders in modern times.

  1. Fuad II, King of Egypt, 6 months
  2. Gyanendra, King of Nepal, 3
  3. Faisal II, King of Iraq, 4
  4. Hussein, King of Jordan, 16
  5. Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, 16
  6. Mswati III, King of Swaziland, 18 (began personal reign after a 3-year regency)
  7. Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, 18
  8. Ntare V, King of Burundi, 18
  9. Jean-Claude Duvalier, President of Haiti, 19
  10. Baudouin, King of Belgium, 20

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Born in 1785, date unknown; died on May 30, 1885
  2. ^ Born in 1107, date unknown; died in May 1205.
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