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This list details national leaders since 1900 who ruled for 20 years or more, and were not self-described members of a royal family. It combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.
Rank | Image | Name | Country | Title | Term began | Term ended | Term length |
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1 | ![]() |
Fidel Castro | ![]() |
El Comandante First Secretary Prime Minister President |
8 January 1959[1] | 19 April 2011[1] | 52 years, 101 days |
2 | ![]() |
Paul Biya | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
30 June 1975 | present | 49 years, 22 days |
3 | ![]() |
Chiang Kai-shek | ![]() ![]() |
Chairman of the National Government Premier Director-General of the Kuomintang Generalissimo President |
9 July 1926 (1st time) |
14 August 1927 (1st time) |
48 years, 46 days (22 years, 296 days in Mainland China) (25 years, 116 days on Taiwan)[Note 1] |
4 | ![]() |
Kim Il-sung | ![]() |
Chairman of the North Korea Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea Chairman of the Provisional People's Committee General Secretary Premier President[Note 2] Generalissimo |
9 September 1948 | 8 July 1994 | 45 years, 302 days |
5 | ![]() |
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | ![]() |
General Secretary Prime Minister President |
8 April 1940 | 23 August 1984 | 44 years, 137 days |
6 | ![]() |
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | ![]() |
Chairman of the Supreme Military Council President |
3 August 1979 | present | 44 years, 354 days |
7 | ![]() |
Omar Bongo | ![]() |
Acting President President |
12 November 1966 | 6 May 2009 | 42 years, 175 days |
8 | ![]() |
Ali Khamenei | ![]() |
President Supreme Leader |
13 October 1981 | present | 42 years, 283 days |
9 | ![]() |
Muammar Gaddafi | ![]() ![]() |
Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Secretary General of the General People's Congress Prime Minister |
1 September 1969 | 23 August 2011[Note 3] | 41 years, 356 days |
10 | ![]() |
Enver Hoxha | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister First Secretary |
22 October 1944 | 11 April 1985 | 40 years, 169 days |
11 | ![]() |
Mohamed Abdelaziz | ![]() |
General Secretary President |
30 August 1976 | 31 May 2016 | 39 years, 275 days |
12 | ![]() |
Denis Sassou Nguesso | ![]() ![]() |
President of the Central Committee State President |
8 February 1979 (1st time) |
31 August 1992 (1st time) |
40 years, 110 days |
13 | Francisco Franco | ![]() |
Generalísimo Head of State Caudillo Prime Minister |
1 October 1936 | 20 November 1975 | 39 years, 50 days | |
14 | ![]() |
Hun Sen | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister | 26 December 1984 | 22 August 2023 | 38 years, 239 days |
15 | ![]() |
Éamon de Valera | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
President of Dáil Éireann President of the Republic President of the Executive Council Taoiseach President |
1 April 1919 (1st time) |
9 January 1922 (1st time) |
38 years, 199 days |
16 | ![]() |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma | ![]() |
Chairman of military junta President |
14 January 1967 | 5 February 2005 | 38 years, 22 days |
17 | ![]() |
José Eduardo dos Santos | ![]() ![]() |
President and Chairman of the MPLA State President |
10 September 1979 | 26 September 2017[Note 4] | 38 years, 16 days |
18 | ![]() |
Yoweri Museveni | ![]() |
President | 26 January 1986 | present | 38 years, 178 days |
19 | ![]() |
Robert Mugabe | ![]() |
Prime Minister Party President and First Secretary State President |
18 April 1980 | 21 November 2017 | 37 years, 217 days |
20 | ![]() |
Josip Broz Tito | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
General Secretary/President of the Presidency of the Central Committee Prime Minister President Marshal |
29 November 1943 | 4 May 1980 | 36 years, 157 days |
21 | ![]() |
António de Oliveira Salazar | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 5 July 1932 | 25 September 1968 | 36 years, 82 days |
22 | ![]() |
Todor Zhivkov | ![]() |
General Secretary Prime Minister Chairman of the State Council |
4 March 1954 | 17 November 1989 | 35 years, 258 days |
23 | ![]() |
Alfredo Stroessner | ![]() |
Commander in Chief President |
5 May 1954 | 3 February 1989 | 34 years, 274 days |
24 | ![]() |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
1 May 1959 | 7 December 1993 | 34 years, 220 days |
22–25 | ![]() |
Sonam Topgay Dorji | ![]() |
Chief Minister | 1917 | 1952 | 34 years, 1 day to 35 years, 364 days |
25 | ![]() |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | ![]() ![]() |
President of North Yemen President |
24 June 1978 | 25 February 2012 | 33 years, 222 days[Note 5] (21 years, 279 days after unification) |
26 | ![]() |
Dawda Jawara | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
12 June 1962 | 22 July 1994 | 32 years, 40 days |
27 | ![]() |
Phạm Văn Đồng | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister | 20 September 1955 | 18 June 1987 | 31 years, 271 days (10 years, 351 days after unification) |
28 | ![]() |
János Kádár | ![]() |
General Secretary Prime Minister |
25 October 1956 | 27 May 1988 | 31 years, 215 days |
29 | ![]() |
Habib Bourguiba | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
11 April 1956 | 7 November 1987 | 31 years, 210 days |
30 | ![]() |
Lee Kuan Yew | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 5 June 1959 | 28 November 1990 | 31 years, 176 days[Note 6] |
31 | ![]() |
Mobutu Sese Seko | ![]() ![]() |
President | 24 November 1965 | 16 May 1997 | 31 years, 173 days |
32 | ![]() |
Hastings Kamuzu Banda | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
1 February 1963 | 21 May 1994 | 31 years, 109 days |
33 | ![]() |
Rafael Trujillo | ![]() |
President Generalísimo |
3 March 1930 | 30 May 1961 | 31 years, 88 days |
34 | ![]() |
Suharto | ![]() |
President | 12 March 1967 | 21 May 1998 | 31 years, 70 days |
35 | ![]() |
Emomali Rahmon | ![]() |
Acting Chairman of the Supreme Council Chairman of the Supreme Council President |
19 November 1992 | present | 31 years, 246 days |
36 | ![]() |
Urho Kekkonen | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
17 March 1950 (1st time) |
17 November 1953 (1st time) |
30 years, 342 days |
37 | ![]() |
Joseph Stalin | ![]() |
General Secretary Premier Marshal |
3 April 1922 | 5 March 1953 | 30 years, 336 days |
38 | ![]() |
Isaias Afwerki | ![]() |
President[Note 7] | 23 May 1993 | present | 31 years, 60 days |
39 | ![]() |
Idriss Déby | ![]() |
President of the Patriotic Salvation Movement President of the Council of State President |
2 December 1990 | 20 April 2021 | 30 years, 139 days |
40 | ![]() |
Porfirio Díaz | ![]() |
President |
28 November 1876 (1st time) |
6 December 1876 (1st time) |
30 years, 106 days |
41 | ![]() |
Abdou Diouf | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
26 February 1970 | 1 April 2000 | 30 years, 35 days |
42 | ![]() |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | ![]() |
President | 11 November 1978 | 11 November 2008 | 30 years, 0 days |
43 | ![]() |
Omar al-Bashir | ![]() |
President of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation President |
30 June 1989 | 11 April 2019 | 29 years, 285 days |
44 | ![]() |
Hafez al-Assad | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
21 November 1970 | 10 June 2000 | 29 years, 202 days |
45 | ![]() |
Hosni Mubarak | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
7 October 1981 | 11 February 2011 | 29 years, 127 days |
46 | ![]() |
Alexander Lukashenko | ![]() |
President[Note 8] | 20 July 1994 | present | 30 years, 2 days |
47 | ![]() |
Haxhi Lleshi | ![]() ![]() |
Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly | 1 August 1953 | 21 November 1982 | 29 years, 112 days |
48 | ![]() |
İsmet İnönü | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
1 November 1923 (1st time) |
22 November 1924 (1st time) |
28 years, 180 days |
49 | ![]() |
Mathieu Kérékou | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
President |
26 October 1972 (1st time) |
4 April 1991 (1st time) |
28 years, 162 days |
50 | ![]() |
France-Albert René | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
29 June 1976 | 14 July 2004 | 28 years, 15 days |
51 | ![]() |
Ne Win | ![]() |
Prime Minister Chairman of the Union Revolutionary Council Party Chairman President |
29 October 1958 (1st time) |
4 April 1960 (1st time) |
27 years, 301 days |
52 | ![]() |
William Tubman | ![]() |
President | 3 January 1944 | 23 July 1971 | 27 years, 201 days |
53 | ![]() |
Kamisese Mara | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
10 October 1970 (1st time) |
13 April 1987 (1st time) |
27 years, 165 days |
54 | ![]() |
Sir Colville Young | ![]() |
Governor-General | 17 November 1993 | 30 April 2021 | 27 years, 164 days |
55 | ![]() |
Mehmet Shehu | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister | 20 July 1954 | 18 December 1981 | 27 years, 151 days |
56 | ![]() |
Nursultan Nazarbayev | ![]() |
President[Note 9] | 16 December 1991 | 20 March 2019 | 27 years, 94 days |
57 | ![]() |
Sir Anerood Jugnauth | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
16 June 1982 (1st time) |
22 December 1995 (1st time) |
27 years, 50 days |
58 | ![]() |
Paul Eyschen | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 22 September 1888 | 11 October 1915 | 27 years, 19 days |
59 | ![]() |
Blaise Compaoré | ![]() |
President of the Popular Front and Head of State President |
15 October 1987 | 31 October 2014 | 27 years, 16 days |
60 | ![]() |
Kenneth Kaunda | ![]() |
President | 24 October 1964 | 2 November 1991 | 27 years, 9 days |
61 | ![]() |
Mikhail Kalinin | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (RSFSR) Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets (All-Union) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet |
30 March 1919 | 19 March 1946 | 26 years, 354 days (3 years, 275 days as head of state of the partially-recognized RSFSR) |
62 | ![]() |
Mao Zedong | ![]() |
Chairman of the Communist Party Chairman of the Central Military Commission Paramount Leader |
1 October 1949 | 9 September 1976 | 26 years, 344 days |
63 | ![]() |
Zhou Enlai | ![]() |
Premier | 1 October 1949 | 8 January 1976 | 26 years, 99 days |
64 | ![]() |
Pedro Pires | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
8 July 1975 (1st time) |
4 April 1991 (1st time) |
26 years, 76 days |
65 | ![]() |
Daniel Ortega | ![]() |
Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction[Note 10] President |
4 March 1981 (1st time) |
25 April 1990 (1st time) |
26 years, 246 days |
66 | ![]() |
Lê Duẩn | ![]() ![]() |
First Secretary General Secretary |
10 September 1960 | 10 July 1986 | 25 years, 303 days (10 years, 8 days after unification) |
67 | ![]() |
Ahmed Sékou Touré | ![]() |
President | 2 October 1958 | 26 March 1984 | 25 years, 176 days |
68 | ![]() |
Willi Stoph | ![]() |
Prime Minister Chairman of the State Council |
21 September 1964 | 13 November 1989 | 25 years, 53 days |
69 | ![]() |
Islam Karimov | ![]() |
President[Note 11] | 1 September 1991 | 2 September 2016 | 25 years, 1 day |
70 | ![]() |
Carl von In der Maur | ![]() |
Governor |
23 September 1884 (1st time) |
5 September 1892 (1st time) |
24 years, 324 days |
71 | ![]() |
Óscar Carmona | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
9 July 1926 | 18 April 1951 | 24 years, 283 days |
72 | ![]() |
Nicolae Ceaușescu | ![]() |
General Secretary Conducător Head of State (President) President of the State Council |
22 March 1965 | 22 December 1989 | 24 years, 275 days |
73 | ![]() |
Lansana Conté | ![]() |
Chairman of the Military Committee of National Restoration President |
5 April 1984 | 22 December 2008 | 24 years, 261 days |
74 | ![]() |
Miklós Horthy | ![]() |
Regent | 1 March 1920 | 15 October 1944 | 24 years, 228 days |
75 | ![]() |
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh | ![]() |
President | 8 May 1999 | present | 25 years, 75 days |
76 | ![]() |
Daniel arap Moi | ![]() |
Acting President President |
22 August 1978 | 30 December 2002 | 24 years, 130 days |
77 | ![]() |
Vladimir Putin | ![]() |
Prime Minister President[Note 12] |
9 August 1999 | present | 24 years, 348 days |
78 | ![]() |
Mahathir Mohamad | ![]() |
Prime Minister |
16 July 1981 (1st time) |
31 October 2003 (1st time) |
24 years, 38 days |
79 | ![]() |
João Bernardo Vieira | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
22 September 1978 (1st time) |
14 May 1984 (1st time) |
24 years, 13 days |
80 | ![]() |
Ho Chi Minh | ![]() |
Prime Minister President Chairman of the Workers' Party First Secretary |
2 September 1945 | 2 September 1969 | 24 years, 0 days |
81 | ![]() |
Józef Cyrankiewicz | ![]() |
Prime Minister Chairman of the Council of State |
6 February 1947 (1st time) |
20 November 1952 (1st time) |
23 years, 298 days |
82 | ![]() |
Saddam Hussein | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
16 July 1979 | 9 April 2003 | 23 years, 267 days |
83 | ![]() |
Paul Kagame | ![]() |
President[Note 13] | 22 April 2000 | present | 24 years, 91 days |
84 | ![]() |
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | ![]() |
Prime Minister Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation President |
25 April 1981 (1st time) |
8 March 1984 (1st time) |
23 years, 187 days |
85 | ![]() |
Hage Geingob | ![]() |
Prime Minister President[Note 14] |
21 March 1990 (1st time) |
28 August 2002 (1st time) |
24 years, 25 days |
86 | ![]() |
Bashar al-Assad | ![]() |
President | 17 July 2000 | present | 24 years, 5 days |
87 | ![]() |
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
2 October 1987 | 14 January 2011 | 23 years, 104 days |
88 | ![]() |
Julius Nyerere | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
9 December 1961 (1st time) |
22 January 1962 (1st time) |
23 years, 10 days |
89 | ![]() |
Walter Ulbricht | ![]() |
First Secretary Chairman of the State Council |
25 July 1950 | 1 August 1973 | 23 years, 7 days |
90 | ![]() |
Didier Ratsiraka | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council President |
15 June 1975 (1st time) |
27 March 1993 (1st time) |
23 years, 6 days |
91 | ![]() |
Tage Erlander | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 11 October 1946 | 14 October 1969 | 23 years, 3 days |
92 (tie) | ![]() |
Ahmadou Ahidjo | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
1 January 1960 | 6 November 1982 | 22 years, 309 days |
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Konstantinos Karamanlis | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
6 October 1955 (1st time) |
5 March 1958 (1st time) |
22 years, 309 days | |
94 | ![]() |
Joaquín Balaguer | ![]() |
President President of the Council of State junta[Note 15] |
30 May 1961 (1st time) |
16 January 1962 (1st time) |
22 years, 277 days |
95 | ![]() |
Ralph Gonsalves | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 29 March 2001 | present | 23 years, 115 days |
96 | ![]() |
Yahya Jammeh | ![]() |
Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council President |
22 July 1994 | 21 January 2017 | 22 years, 183 days |
97 | ![]() |
Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 23 November 1998 | 24 May 2021[Note 16] | 22 years, 182 days |
98 | ![]() |
Keith Mitchell | ![]() |
Prime Minister |
22 June 1995 (1st time) |
9 July 2008 (1st time) |
22 years, 141 days |
99 | ![]() |
Barkat Gourad Hamadou | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 2 October 1978 | 7 March 2001 | 22 years, 156 days |
100 | ![]() |
Nicola Canali | ![]() |
President of the Governatorate | 20 March 1939 | 3 August 1961 | 22 years, 136 days |
101 | ![]() |
Moussa Traoré | ![]() |
Chairman of the Military Committee for National Liberation Head of State President |
19 November 1968 | 26 March 1991 | 22 years, 127 days |
102 | ![]() |
Benito Mussolini | ![]() ![]() |
Prime Minister Duce |
31 October 1922 (1st time) |
25 July 1943 (1st time) |
22 years, 116 days |
103 | ![]() |
Leonid Brezhnev | ![]() |
General Secretary Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet |
7 May 1960 (1st time) |
15 July 1964 (1st time) |
22 years, 96 days |
104 | ![]() |
Manuel Estrada Cabrera | ![]() |
President | 8 February 1898 | 15 April 1920 | 22 years, 67 days |
105 | ![]() |
Sam Hinds | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
9 October 1992 (1st time) |
17 March 1997 (1st time) |
21 years, 308 days |
106 | ![]() |
Hassan Gouled Aptidon | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
27 June 1977 | 8 May 1999 | 21 years, 285 days |
107 | ![]() |
Sukarno | ![]() |
President | 18 August 1945 | 12 March 1967 | 21 years, 206 days |
108 | ![]() |
Artur Rasizade | ![]() |
Prime Minister |
20 July 1996 (1st time) |
4 August 2003 (1st time) |
21 years, 183 days |
109 | ![]() |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ![]() |
Prime Minister |
29 December 1921 (1st time) |
28 June 1926 (1st time) |
21 years, 154 days |
110 | ![]() |
Siad Barre | ![]() |
President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council President |
21 October 1969 | 26 January 1991 | 21 years, 97 days |
111 | ![]() |
Meles Zenawi | ![]() ![]() |
Acting President Prime Minister |
28 May 1991 | 20 August 2012 | 21 years, 84 days |
112 | ![]() |
Paul Kruger | ![]() |
Member of the Triumvirate State President |
8 August 1881 | 31 May 1902 | 20 years, 296 days |
113 | ![]() |
Juvénal Habyarimana | ![]() |
President | 5 July 1973 | 6 April 1994 | 20 years, 275 days |
114 | Gustáv Husák | ![]() |
First Secretary President |
17 April 1969 | 10 December 1989 | 20 years, 237 days | |
115 | ![]() |
Manuel Pinto da Costa | ![]() |
President |
12 July 1975 (1st time) |
4 March 1991 (1st time) |
20 years, 235 days |
116 | ![]() |
Kim Yong-nam | ![]() |
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly[Note 2] | 5 September 1998 | 11 April 2019 | 20 years, 218 days |
117 | ![]() |
Leabua Jonathan | ![]() |
Prime Minister | 7 July 1965 | 20 January 1986 | 20 years, 197 days |
118 | ![]() |
Léopold Sédar Senghor | ![]() |
President | 6 September 1960 | 31 December 1980 | 20 years, 116 days |
119 | ![]() |
Pierre Werner | ![]() |
Prime Minister |
2 March 1959 (1st time) |
15 June 1974 (1st time) |
20 years, 109 days |
120 | ![]() |
Dame Pearlette Louisy | ![]() |
Governor-General | 19 September 1997 | 31 December 2017 | 20 years, 103 days |
121 | ![]() |
Pál Losonczi | ![]() |
Chairman of the Presidential Council | 14 April 1967 | 25 June 1987 | 20 years, 72 days |
122 | ![]() |
Ferdinand Marcos | ![]() |
President | 30 December 1965 | 25 February 1986 | 20 years, 57 days |
123 | ![]() |
Hammer DeRoburt | ![]() |
President |
31 January 1968 (1st time) |
22 December 1976 (1st time) |
20 years, 31 days |
124 | ![]() |
Eddie Fenech Adami | ![]() |
Prime Minister President |
12 May 1987 (1st time) |
28 October 1996 (1st time) |
20 years, 3 days |
125 | ![]() |
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | ![]() |
President | 1 August 1996 | 1 August 2016 | 20 years, 0 days |
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