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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

List

• 
  Oldest ever:
  Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
  served 1962
• 
  2nd-oldest ever:
  Celâl Bayar
  served 1937–1939 & 1950–1960
• 
  3rd-oldest ever:
  Antoine Pinay
  served 1952–1953
• 
  Oldest currently living and 25th-oldest ever:
  Mustafa Ben Halim
  served 1954–1957

     Living

No.	Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
1	Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	Cambodia	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, 348 days
4	André Prunet-Foch	Andorra	French Viguier (1977–1980)	1914	2017	102 years, 211 days
5	Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni	Japan	Prime Minister (1945)	1887	1990	102 years, 48 days
1–6	Ek Yi Oun	Cambodia	Prime Minister (1958)	1910	2013	102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 364 days[lower-greek 1]
7	Babiker Awadalla	Sudan	Prime Minister (1969)	1917	2019	101 years, 321 days
8	Willem Drees	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1948–1958)	1886	1988	101 years, 314 days
9	Đỗ Mười	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1988–1991) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1991–1997)	1917	2018	101 years, 241 days
10	Zhang Qun	China	Premier (1947–1948)	1889	1990	101 years, 219 days
11	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Japan	Prime Minister (1982–1987)	1918	2019	101 years, 186 days
12	Piet de Jong	Netherlands	Prime Minister (1967–1971)	1915	2016	101 years, 115 days
13	Hyun Soong-jong	South Korea	Prime Minister (1992–1993)	1919	2020	101 years, 89 days
14	Bernardino González Ruiz	Panama	President (1963)	1911	2012	101 years, 64 days
15	Christopher Hornsrud	Norway	Prime Minister (1928)	1859	1960	101 years, 27 days
16	Telmo Vargas	Ecuador	Head of State (1966)	1912	2013	100 years, 304 days
17	Hau Pei-tsun	Taiwan	Premier (1990–1993)	1919	2020	100 years, 235 days
18	Xenophon Zolotas	Greece	Prime Minister (1989–1990)	1904	2004	100 years, 45 days
	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Peru	Prime Minister (2000–2001)	1920	2020
20	Abdul Salam Sabrah	North Yemen	Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971)	1912	2012	100 years, 32 days
18–21	Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein	Somalia	Interim president (1969)	1912	2012	100 years, 0 to 163 days[lower-greek 2]
22	Hastings Banda	Malawi	Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993)	1898	1997	99 years, 283 days
23	Johan Ferrier	Suriname	President (1975–1980)	1910	2010	99 years, 237 days
24	Tun Tin	Burma	Prime Minister (1988)	1920	2020	99 years, 212 days
25	Mustafa Ben Halim	Libya	Prime Minister (1954–1957)	1921	Alive	99 years, 201 days
26	Gulzarilal Nanda	India	Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966)	1898	1998	99 years, 195 days
27	Mohammed Karim Lamrani	Morocco	Prime Minister (1971–1972; 1983–1986; 1992–1994)	1919	2018	99 years, 142 days
28	Sir Anthony Mamo	Malta	Governor-General (1971–1974) President (1974–1976)	1909	2008	99 years, 113 days
29	Michail Stasinopoulos	Greece	President (1974–1975)	1903	2002	99 years, 96 days
30	Sir Clifford Campbell	Jamaica	Governor-General (1962–1973)	1892	1991	99 years, 92 days
31	Morarji Desai	India	Prime Minister (1977–1979)	1896	1995	99 years, 41 days
32	Võ Chí Công	Vietnam	Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992)	1912	2011	99 years, 32 days
33	Abdel Halim Muhammad	Sudan	Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964–1965)	1910	2009	99 years, 6 days
34	Ċensu Tabone	Malta	President (1989–1994)	1913	2012	98 years, 350 days
35	Francisco Morales Bermúdez	Peru	Prime Minister (1975) President (1975–1980)	1921	Alive	98 years, 318 days
36	Prem Tinsulanonda	Thailand	Prime Minister (1980–1988) Regent (2016)	1920	2019	98 years, 273 days
37	Pierre Harmel	Belgium	Prime Minister (1965–1966)	1911	2009	98 years, 244 days
38	Sir Howard Cooke	Jamaica	Governor-General (1991–2006)	1915	2014	98 years, 240 days
39	Joseph Paul-Boncour	France	Prime Minister (1932–1933)	1873	1972	98 years, 237 days
40	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Greece	Prime Minister (1990–1993)	1918	2017	98 years, 223 days
41	Luis Echeverría	Mexico	President (1970–1976)	1922	Alive	98 years, 213 days
42	Isidro Ayora	Ecuador	President (1926–1931)	1879	1978	98 years, 203 days
43	Émile Reuter	Luxembourg	Prime Minister (1918–1925)	1874	1973	98 years, 196 days
44	Mamadou Dia	Senegal	Prime Minister (1960–1962)	1910	2009	98 years, 191 days
45	Aden Abdullah Osman Daar	Somalia	President (1960–1967)	1908	2007	98 years, 181 days
46	Nouhak Phoumsavanh	Laos	President (1992–1998)	1910	2008	98 years, 153 days
47	Lê Đức Anh	Vietnam	President (1992–1997)	1920	2019	98 years, 142 days
48	Émile Derlin Zinsou	Dahomey	President (1968–1969)	1918	2016	98 years, 127 days
49	Borys Martos	Ukraine	Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919)	1879	1977	98 years, 122 days
50	Artúr Görgei	Hungary	Acting Governor-President (1849)	1818	1916	98 years, 112 days
51	Jean	Luxembourg	Grand Duke (1964–2000)	1921	2019	98 years, 108 days
52	Gough Whitlam	Australia	Prime Minister (1972–1975)	1916	2014	98 years, 102 days
53	Venceslau Brás	Brazil	President (1914–1918)	1868	1966	98 years, 78 days
54	Claude Rostain	Andorra	French Viguier (1972–1977)	1916	2015	98 years, 56 days
55	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	India	President (1987–1992)	1910	2009	98 years, 54 days
56	Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám	Hungary	Prime Minister (1919)	1875	1973	98 years, 15 days
57	Gabriel París Gordillo	Colombia	President (1957–1958)	1910	2008	98 years, 13 days
58	Miloš Jakeš	Czechoslovakia	General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)	1922	2020	97 years, 332 days
59	Kenan Evren	Turkey	National Security Council President (1980–1982) President (1982–1989)	1917	2015	97 years, 296 days
60	Wellington Koo	China	Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927)	1888	1985	97 years, 289 days
61	Baron Ignaz von Plener	Cisleithania ( Austria-Hungary)	Minister-President (1870)	1810	1908	97 years, 272 days
62	Domhnall Ua Buachalla	Irish Free State	Governor-General (1932–1936)	1866	1963	97 years, 267 days
63	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	Algeria	Chair of the Constitutional Council (1992)	1921	2018	97 years, 245 days
64	Francesc Badia Batalla	Andorra	Episcopal Veguer (1972–1993)	1923	2020	97 years, 217 days
65	Ramón José Velásquez	Venezuela	Interim president (1993–1994)	1916	2014	97 years, 208 days
66	He Yingqin	China	Premier (1949)	1890	1987	97 years, 202 days
67	Lee Teng-hui	Taiwan	President (1988–2000) Chairman of the Kuomintang (1988–2000)	1923	2020	97 years, 197 days
68	Liam Cosgrave	Ireland	Taoiseach (1973–1977)	1920	2017	97 years, 174 days
69	Alfredo Solf y Muro	Peru	Prime Minister (1939–1944)	1872	1969	97 years, 152 days
70	Patricio Aylwin	Chile	President (1990–1994)	1918	2016	97 years, 145 days
71	Armando Villanueva	Peru	Prime Minister (1988–1989)	1915	2013	97 years, 140 days
72	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
73	Martial Célestin	Haiti	Prime Minister (1988)	1913	2011	97 years, 123 days
74	Gheorghe Apostol	Romania	First Secretary of the Workers' Party (1954–1955)	1913	2010	97 years, 97 days
75	Walter Scheel	West Germany	Acting Chancellor (1974) President (1974–1979)	1919	2016	97 years, 47 days
76	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	Chancellor (1974–1982)	1918	2015	96 years, 322 days
77	Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte	Vatican City	Acting Sovereign (1939)	1851	1948	96 years, 312 days
78	Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuva	Chair of the Presidium (1940–1944)	1912	2008	96 years, 308 days
79	Camille Huysmans	Belgium	Prime Minister (1946–1947)	1871	1968	96 years, 275 days
80	Yitzhak Shamir	Israel	Prime Minister (1983–1984; 1986–1992)	1915	2012	96 years, 252 days
81	Federico Páez	Ecuador	Acting President (1935–1937)	1877	1974	96 years, 250 days
82	Habib Bourguiba	Tunisia	Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987)	1903	2000	96 years, 247 days
83	Vyacheslav Molotov	Soviet Union	Premier (1930–1941)	1890	1986	96 years, 244 days
68–84	Konstantinos Kollias	Greece	Prime Minister (1967)	1901	1998	96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days[lower-greek 3]
85	Pedro Richter Prada	Peru	Prime Minister (1979–1980)	1921	2017	96 years, 191 days
85	Khamtai Siphandon	Laos	Prime Minister (1991–1998) Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006) President (1998–2006)	1924	Alive	96 years, 191 days
87	Tomiichi Murayama	Japan	Prime Minister (1994–1996)	1924	Alive	96 years, 167 days
88	Cesáreo Octavio Deustua Escarza	Peru	Prime Minister (1902)	1849	1945	96 years, 137 days
89	Kenneth Kaunda	Zambia	State President (1964–1991) President of the United National Independence Party (1973–1990)	1924	Alive	96 years, 111 days
90	Abderrahmane Youssoufi	Morocco	Prime Minister (1998–2002)	1924	2020	96 years, 82 days
91	Pedro Lascuráin	Mexico	Acting President (1913)	1856	1952	96 years, 74 days
92	Federico Chávez	Paraguay	President (1949–1954)	1882	1978	96 years, 68 days
93	Fumio Gotō	Japan	Acting Prime Minister (1936)	1884	1980	96 years, 67 days
94	Mario Echandi Jiménez	Costa Rica	President (1958–1962)	1915	2011	96 years, 43 days
95	Michael I	Romania	King (1927–1930; 1940–1947)	1921	2017	96 years, 41 days
96	João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu	Brazil	Prime Minister (1878–1880)	1810	1906	96 years, 37 days
97	Dom Mintoff	Malta	Prime Minister (1955–1958; 1971–1984)	1916	2012	96 years, 14 days
98	Hans Schaffner	Switzerland	Federal Council Member (1961–1969) President (1966)	1908	2004	95 years, 346 days
99	Jimmy Carter	United States	President (1977–1981)	1924	Alive	95 years, 321 days
100	Joaquín Balaguer	Dominican Republic	President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996)	1906	2002	95 years, 316 days

Addendum

The following individual may be older than #100–90, but his exact lifespan is unknown.

Name	State	Position	Birth	Death	Age
Hassan al-Hakim	Syria	Prime Minister (1941–1942; 1951)	1886	1982	95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days[lower-greek 4]

See also

• List of longest-reigning monarchs
• List of oldest living state leaders
• Lists of state leaders by age
• List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants)
• Records of heads of state

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.

External links

• United Nations—a list of heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers
• WorldStatesmen—an online encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and territories