List of longest-living state leaders

This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states (often a president or prime minister), born no earlier than 1800, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived state leader with known exact dates of birth and death was Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, who lived to 103 years, 143 days. Ek Yi Oun, fellow Cambodian prime minister, lived between 102 years, 1 day, and 103 years, 364 days.

For a list of the oldest currently serving state leaders, see Lists of state leaders by age.
Not to be confused with List of oldest living state leaders.
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List

     Living

No. Name State Position Birth Death Age
1Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum CambodiaPrime Minister (1962)19052009103 years, 143 days
2Celâl Bayar TurkeyPrime Minister (1937–1939)
President (1950–1960)		18831986103 years, 98 days
3Antoine Pinay FrancePrime Minister (1952–1953)18911994102 years, 348 days
4André Prunet-Foch AndorraFrench Viguier (1977–1980)19142017102 years, 211 days
5Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni JapanPrime Minister (1945)18871990102 years, 48 days
1–6Ek Yi Oun CambodiaPrime Minister (1958)19102013102 years, 1 day to
103 years, 364 days[lower-greek 1]
7Babiker Awadalla SudanPrime Minister (1969)19172019101 years, 321 days
8Willem Drees NetherlandsPrime Minister (1948–1958)18861988101 years, 314 days
9Đỗ Mười VietnamChairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1991)
General Secretary of the Communist Party (1991–1997)		19172018101 years, 241 days
10Zhang Qun ChinaPremier (1947–1948)18891990101 years, 219 days
11Yasuhiro Nakasone JapanPrime Minister (1982–1987)19182019101 years, 186 days
12Piet de Jong NetherlandsPrime Minister (1967–1971)19152016101 years, 115 days
13Hyun Soong-jong South KoreaPrime Minister (1992–1993)19192020101 years, 89 days
14Bernardino González Ruiz PanamaPresident (1963)19112012101 years, 64 days
15Christopher Hornsrud NorwayPrime Minister (1928)18591960101 years, 27 days
16Telmo Vargas EcuadorHead of State (1966)19122013100 years, 304 days
17Hau Pei-tsun TaiwanPremier (1990–1993)19192020100 years, 235 days
18Xenophon Zolotas GreecePrime Minister (1989–1990)19042004100 years, 45 days
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar PeruPrime Minister (2000–2001)19202020
20Abdul Salam Sabrah North YemenActing Prime Minister (1969; 1971)19122012100 years, 32 days
18–21Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein SomaliaInterim president (1969)19122012100 years, 0 to 163 days[lower-greek 2]
22Hastings Banda MalawiPrime Minister (1964–1966)
State President (1966–1994)
President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)		1898199799 years, 283 days
23Johan Ferrier SurinamePresident (1975–1980)1910201099 years, 237 days
24Tun Tin BurmaPrime Minister (1988)1920202099 years, 212 days
25Mustafa Ben Halim LibyaPrime Minister (1954–1957)1921Alive99 years, 201 days
26Gulzarilal Nanda IndiaActing Prime Minister (1964; 1966)1898199899 years, 195 days
27Mohammed Karim Lamrani MoroccoPrime Minister (1971–1972; 1983–1986; 1992–1994)1919201899 years, 142 days
28Sir Anthony Mamo MaltaGovernor-General (1971–1974)
President (1974–1976)		1909200899 years, 113 days
29Michail Stasinopoulos GreecePresident (1974–1975)1903200299 years, 96 days
30Sir Clifford Campbell JamaicaGovernor-General (1962–1973)1892199199 years, 92 days
31Morarji Desai IndiaPrime Minister (1977–1979)1896199599 years, 41 days
32Võ Chí Công VietnamChairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)1912201199 years, 32 days
33Abdel Halim Muhammad SudanCommittee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)1910200999 years, 6 days
34Ċensu Tabone MaltaPresident (1989–1994)1913201298 years, 350 days
35Francisco Morales Bermúdez PeruPrime Minister (1975)
President (1975–1980)		1921Alive98 years, 318 days
36Prem Tinsulanonda ThailandPrime Minister (1980–1988)
Regent (2016)		1920201998 years, 273 days
37Pierre Harmel BelgiumPrime Minister (1965–1966)1911200998 years, 244 days
38Sir Howard Cooke JamaicaGovernor-General (1991–2006)1915201498 years, 240 days
39Joseph Paul-Boncour FrancePrime Minister (1932–1933)1873197298 years, 237 days
40Konstantinos Mitsotakis GreecePrime Minister (1990–1993)1918201798 years, 223 days
41Luis Echeverría MexicoPresident (1970–1976)1922Alive98 years, 213 days
42Isidro Ayora EcuadorPresident (1926–1931)1879197898 years, 203 days
43Émile Reuter LuxembourgPrime Minister (1918–1925)1874197398 years, 196 days
44Mamadou Dia SenegalPrime Minister (1960–1962)1910200998 years, 191 days
45Aden Abdullah Osman Daar SomaliaPresident (1960–1967)1908200798 years, 181 days
46Nouhak Phoumsavanh LaosPresident (1992–1998)1910200898 years, 153 days
47Lê Đức Anh VietnamPresident (1992–1997)1920201998 years, 142 days
48Émile Derlin Zinsou DahomeyPresident (1968–1969)1918201698 years, 127 days
49Borys Martos UkraineChairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)1879197798 years, 122 days
50Artúr Görgei HungaryActing Governor-President (1849)1818191698 years, 112 days
51Jean LuxembourgGrand Duke (1964–2000)1921201998 years, 108 days
52Gough Whitlam AustraliaPrime Minister (1972–1975)1916201498 years, 102 days
53Venceslau Brás BrazilPresident (1914–1918)1868196698 years, 78 days
54Claude Rostain AndorraFrench Viguier (1972–1977)1916201598 years, 56 days
55Ramaswamy Venkataraman IndiaPresident (1987–1992)1910200998 years, 54 days
56Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám  HungaryPrime Minister (1919)1875197398 years, 15 days
57Gabriel París Gordillo ColombiaPresident (1957–1958)1910200898 years, 13 days
58Miloš Jakeš CzechoslovakiaGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)1922202097 years, 332 days
59Kenan Evren TurkeyNational Security Council President (1980–1982)
President (1982–1989)		1917201597 years, 296 days
60Wellington Koo ChinaActing Premier (1924)
Acting President (1926–1927)		1888198597 years, 289 days
61Baron Ignaz von PlenerCisleithania ( Austria-Hungary)Minister-President (1870)1810190897 years, 272 days
62Domhnall Ua Buachalla Irish Free StateGovernor-General (1932–1936)1866196397 years, 267 days
63Abdelmalek Benhabyles AlgeriaChair of the Constitutional Council (1992)1921201897 years, 245 days
64Francesc Badia Batalla AndorraEpiscopal Veguer (1972–1993)1923202097 years, 217 days
65Ramón José Velásquez VenezuelaInterim president (1993–1994)1916201497 years, 208 days
66He Yingqin ChinaPremier (1949)1890198797 years, 202 days
67Lee Teng-hui TaiwanPresident (1988–2000)
Chairman of the Kuomintang (1988–2000)		1923202097 years, 197 days
68Liam Cosgrave IrelandTaoiseach (1973–1977)1920201797 years, 174 days
69Alfredo Solf y Muro PeruPrime Minister (1939–1944)1872196997 years, 152 days
70Patricio Aylwin ChilePresident (1990–1994)1918201697 years, 145 days
71Armando Villanueva PeruPrime Minister (1988–1989)1915201397 years, 140 days
72Ion Gheorghe Maurer RomaniaPresident of the Presidium (1958–1961)
Acting President of the State Council (1965)
Prime Minister (1961–1974)		1902200097 years, 138 days
73Martial Célestin HaitiPrime Minister (1988)1913201197 years, 123 days
74Gheorghe Apostol RomaniaFirst Secretary of the Workers' Party (1954–1955)1913201097 years, 97 days
75Walter Scheel West GermanyActing Chancellor (1974)
President (1974–1979)		1919201697 years, 47 days
76Helmut Schmidt West GermanyChancellor (1974–1982)1918201596 years, 322 days
77Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte  Vatican CityActing Sovereign (1939)1851194896 years, 312 days
78Khertek Anchimaa-Toka TuvaChair of the Presidium (1940–1944)1912200896 years, 308 days
79Camille Huysmans BelgiumPrime Minister (1946–1947)1871196896 years, 275 days
80Yitzhak Shamir IsraelPrime Minister (1983–1984; 1986–1992)1915201296 years, 252 days
81Federico Páez EcuadorActing President (1935–1937)1877197496 years, 250 days
82Habib Bourguiba TunisiaPrime Minister (1956–1957)
President (1957–1987)		1903200096 years, 247 days
83Vyacheslav Molotov Soviet UnionPremier (1930–1941)1890198696 years, 244 days
68–84Konstantinos Kollias GreecePrime Minister (1967)1901199896 years, 194 days to
97 years, 193 days[lower-greek 3]
85Pedro Richter Prada PeruPrime Minister (1979–1980)1921201796 years, 191 days
85Khamtai Siphandon LaosPrime Minister (1991–1998)
Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006)
President (1998–2006)		1924Alive96 years, 191 days
87Tomiichi Murayama JapanPrime Minister (1994–1996)1924Alive96 years, 167 days
88Cesáreo Octavio Deustua Escarza PeruPrime Minister (1902)1849194596 years, 137 days
89Kenneth Kaunda ZambiaState President (1964–1991)
President of the United National Independence Party
(1973–1990)		1924Alive96 years, 111 days
90Abderrahmane Youssoufi MoroccoPrime Minister (1998–2002)1924202096 years, 82 days
91Pedro Lascuráin MexicoActing President (1913)1856195296 years, 74 days
92Federico Chávez ParaguayPresident (1949–1954)1882197896 years, 68 days
93Fumio Gotō JapanActing Prime Minister (1936)1884198096 years, 67 days
94Mario Echandi Jiménez Costa RicaPresident (1958–1962)1915201196 years, 43 days
95Michael I RomaniaKing (1927–1930; 1940–1947)1921201796 years, 41 days
96João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu BrazilPrime Minister (1878–1880)1810190696 years, 37 days
97Dom Mintoff MaltaPrime Minister (1955–1958; 1971–1984)1916201296 years, 14 days
98Hans Schaffner  SwitzerlandFederal Council Member (1961–1969)
President (1966)		1908200495 years, 346 days
99Jimmy Carter United StatesPresident (1977–1981)1924Alive95 years, 321 days
100Joaquín Balaguer Dominican RepublicPresident (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)1906200295 years, 316 days

Addendum
Name State Position Birth Death Age
The following individual may be older than #100–90, but his exact lifespan is unknown.
Hassan al-Hakim SyriaPrime Minister (1941–1942; 1951)1886198295 years, 89 days to
96 years, 88 days[lower-greek 4]
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See also

Notes
  1. The dates of birth and death for Ek are unknown.
  2. The exact date of birth for Hussein remains unknown, but he was at aged at least 100 at the time of his death.
  3. The exact date of birth for Kollias is unknown.
  4. The exact date of birth for al-Hakim is unknown.
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