List of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders

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This list of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders is a list of the current living longest-ruling heads of nation-states or national governments, excluding royalty, who have served ten years or longer, sorted by length of tenure. Heads of generally recognized sovereign states are ranked by number, while heads of sovereign states with limited international recognition are listed in italics and are not given a numbered rank.

The individuals on the list are not always the most powerful figure in their country’s national government. Some are or have been at one time the most powerful figures in their country’s national government but not necessarily continuously throughout the listed timespan. Some of them have held more than one national leadership-level office: presidency, prime minister-ship, or some other title implying or widely believed to confer national leadership. When more than one such office exists in a country, there may be uncertainty as to which member of the national government actually has the ultimate power. Therefore, this list combines all national level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual leader.

Rank	Image	Name	Age	Country	Office	Tenure began	Length of tenure
1.		Paul Biya	88	Cameroon	Prime Minister, then President[a]	30 June 1975	46 years, 64 days
2.		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	79	Equatorial Guinea	President[b]	3 August 1979	42 years, 30 days
3.		Ali Khamenei	82	Iran	President, then Supreme Leader[c]	13 October 1981	39 years, 324 days
4.		Denis Sassou Nguesso	77	Republic of the Congo	President[d]	8 February 1979 – 31 August 1992 (1st time) 25 October 1997 – present (2nd time)	37 years, 152 days
5.		Hun Sen	69	Cambodia	Prime Minister[e]	26 December 1984	36 years, 250 days
6.		Yoweri Museveni	76	Uganda	President	26 January 1986	35 years, 219 days
7.		Nursultan Nazarbayev	81	Kazakhstan	Chairman of the Security Council, formerly President[f]	16 December 1991	29 years, 260 days
8.		Emomali Rahmon	68	Tajikistan	De facto Head of State, then President[g]	19 November 1992	28 years, 287 days
9.		Isaias Afwerki	75	Eritrea	President[h]	24 May 1993	28 years, 101 days
10.		Alexander Lukashenko	67	Belarus	President	20 July 1994	27 years, 44 days
11.		Daniel Ortega	75	Nicaragua	Acting Head of State, then President[i]	4 March 1981 – 25 April 1990 (1st time) 10 January 2007 – present (2nd time)	23 years, 287 days
12.		Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	73	Djibouti	President	8 May 1999	22 years, 117 days
13.		Vladimir Putin	68	Russia	Prime Minister, then President[j]	9 August 1999 – 7 May 2000 (1st term as Prime Minister) 8 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 (1st & 2nd terms as president) 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 (2nd term as Prime Minister) 7 May 2012 – present (3rd & 4th terms as president)	22 years, 24 days
14.		Keith Mitchell	74	Grenada	Prime Minister	22 June 1995 – 9 July 2008 (1st time) 20 February 2013 – present (2nd time)	21 years, 211 days
15.		Paul Kagame	63	Rwanda	President	22 April 2000	21 years, 133 days
16.		Hage Geingob	80	Namibia	Prime Minister, then President[k]	21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 (1st time) 4 December 2012 – present (2nd time)	21 years, 67 days
17.		Bashar al-Assad	55	Syria	President	17 July 2000	21 years, 47 days
18.		Ralph Gonsalves	75	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	29 March 2001	20 years, 157 days
19.		Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	67	Turkey	Prime Minister, then President[l]	14 March 2003	18 years, 172 days
20.		Ilham Aliyev	59	Azerbaijan	Prime Minister, then President[m]	4 August 2003	18 years, 29 days
21.		Shavkat Mirziyoyev	64	Uzbekistan	Prime Minister, then President[n]	12 December 2003	17 years, 264 days
22.		Sheikh Hasina	73	Bangladesh	Prime Minister	23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001 (1st time) 6 January 2009 – present (2nd time)	17 years, 261 days
23.		Roosevelt Skerrit	49	Dominica	Prime Minister	8 January 2004	17 years, 237 days
–		Mahmoud Abbas	85	Palestine	Prime Minister, then President[o]	19 March 2003 – 6 September 2003 (1st time) 15 January 2005 – present (2nd time)	17 years, 36 days
24.		Lee Hsien Loong	69	Singapore	Prime Minister	12 August 2004	17 years, 21 days
25.		Faure Gnassingbé	55	Togo	President[p]	5 February 2005 – 25 February 2005 (1st time) 4 May 2005 – present (2nd time)	16 years, 141 days
26.		Angela Merkel	67	Germany	Federal Chancellor	22 November 2005	15 years, 284 days
27.		Viktor Orbán	58	Hungary	Prime Minister	6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002 (1st time) 29 May 2010 – present (2nd time)	15 years, 56 days
28.		Frank Bainimarama	67	Fiji	Acting Head of State, then Prime Minister[q]	29 May 2000 – 13 July 2000 (1st time) 5 December 2006 – present (2nd time)	14 years, 316 days
29.		Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	64	Turkmenistan	President[r]	21 December 2006	14 years, 255 days
30.		Alassane Ouattara	79	Côte d’Ivoire	Prime Minister, then President[s]	7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 (1st time) 4 December 2010 – present (2nd time)	13 years, 304 days
31.		Mahinda Rajapaksa	75	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister[t]	6 April 2004 – 19 November 2005 (1st term as Prime Minister) 19 November 2005 – 9 January 2015 (Term as president) 26 October 2018 – 15 December 2018 (2nd disputed term as Prime Minister)[u] 21 November 2019 – present (3rd term as Prime Minister)	12 years, 248 days
32.		Ueli Maurer	70	Switzerland	Federal Council Member, formerly President[v]	1 January 2009	12 years, 244 days
33.		Macky Sall	59	Senegal	Prime Minister, then President[w]	21 April 2004 – 19 June 2007 (1st time) 2 April 2012 – present (2nd time)	12 years, 212 days
34.		Miloš Zeman	76	Czech Republic	Prime Minister, then President[x]	22 July 1998 – 15 July 2002 (1st time) 8 March 2013 – present (2nd time)	12 years, 171 days
35.		Azali Assoumani	62	Comoros	President[y]	30 April 1999 – 21 January 2002 (1st time) 6 May 2002 – 26 May 2006 (2nd time) 26 May 2016 – present (3rd time)	12 years, 20 days
36.		Borut Pahor	57	Slovenia	Prime Minister, then President[z]	21 November 2008 – 10 February 2012 (1st time) 22 December 2012 – present (2nd time)	11 years, 335 days
37.		Ali Bongo Ondimba	62	Gabon	President	16 October 2009	11 years, 321 days
–		Arayik Harutyunyan	47	Artsakh	Prime Minister, then President[aa]	14 September 2007 – 25 September 2017 (1st time) 21 May 2020 – present (2nd time)	11 years, 115 days
38.		Mark Rutte	54	Netherlands	Prime Minister	14 October 2010	10 years, 323 days
39.		Simonetta Sommaruga	61	Switzerland	Federal Council Member, formerly President[ab]	1 November 2010	10 years, 305 days
40.		Alpha Condé	83	Guinea	President	21 December 2010	10 years, 255 days
41.		Nguyễn Phú Trọng	77	Vietnam	General Secretary, formerly also President[ac]	19 January 2011	10 years, 226 days
42.		Milo Đukanović	59	Montenegro	President[ad]	3 June 2006 – 10 November 2006 (1st term as Prime Minister) 29 February 2008 – 29 December 2010 (2nd term as Prime Minister) 4 December 2012 – 29 November 2016 (3rd term as Prime Minister) 20 May 2018 – present (Term as president)	10 years, 200 days
43.		Faustin-Archange Touadéra	64	Central African Republic	Prime Minister, then President[ae]	22 January 2008 – 17 January 2013 (1st time) 30 March 2016 – present (2nd time)	10 years, 152 days
44.		Salva Kiir Mayardit	70	South Sudan	President[af]	9 July 2011	10 years, 55 days
45.		Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi	76	Yemen	Acting President, then President[ag]	4 June 2011 – 23 September 2011 (1st time) 23 November 2011 – present (2nd time)	10 years, 27 days