List of oldest living state leaders
This article lists the 100 oldest living current or former state leaders whose age can be demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. State leaders are defined to include heads of state, heads of government and internationally recognized de facto leaders of sovereign states with significant international recognition. Leaders are not included if no reliable secondary sources have confirmed that the leader is alive within the last 10 years. The oldest living former state leader is Mustafa Ben Halim of the Kingdom of Libya at the age of. Leaders currently in office are in bold on purple, with Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom being the oldest currently-serving head of state.
List
| Name | State | Position | Birth | Age | ||
| 1 | Mustafa Ben Halim | Kingdom of Libya | Prime Minister | 29 January 1921 | 2020-05-11 | |
| 2 | Francisco Morales Bermúdez | Prime Minister President | 4 October 1921 | 2019-07-08 | ||
| 3 | Luis Echeverría | President | 17 January 1922 | 2019-12-12 | ||
| 4 | Francesc Badia Batalla | Episcopal Veguer | 10 January 1923 | 2019-02-12 | ||
| 5 | Khamtai Siphandon | Prime Minister Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party President | 8 February 1924 | 2020-02-05 | ||
| 6 | Tomiichi Murayama | Prime Minister | 3 March 1924 | 2020-02-06 | ||
| 7 | Kenneth Kaunda | President | 28 April 1924 | 2019-12-10 | ||
| 8 | Jimmy Carter | President | 1 October 1924 | 2020-07-18 | ||
| 9 | Lubomír Štrougal | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | Prime Minister | 19 October 1924 | 2019-11-26 | |
| 10 | Guillermo Rodriguez | President | 4 November 1924 | 2020-02-27 | ||
| 11 | Abdelsalam al-Majali | Prime Minister | 18 February 1925 | 2019-03-04 | ||
| 12 | Ali Hassan Mwinyi | President | 8 May 1925 | 2019-12-12 | ||
| 13 | Giorgio Napolitano | President | 29 June 1925 | 2019-08-27 | ||
| 14 | Mahathir Mohamad | Prime Minister | 10 July 1925 | 2020-07-14 | ||
| 15 | Ali Bozer | Acting Prime Minister | 28 July 1925 | 2019-11-06 | ||
| 16 | Yang Hyong-sop | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly | 1 October 1925 | 2019-04-10 | ||
| 17 | Arnaldo Forlani | Prime Minister | 8 December 1925 | 2020-01-29 | ||
| 18 | Trần Thiện Khiêm | Member of the Provisional Leadership Committee Prime Minister | 15 December 1925 | 2019-12-23 | ||
| 19 | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | President | 2 February 1926 | 2020-03-05 | ||
| 20 | Elizabeth II | ' | Queen | 21 April 1926 | ' | 2020-07-17 |
| 21 | Abdoulaye Wade | President | 29 May 1926 | 2019-12-05 | ||
| 22 | Jiang Zemin | General Secretary of the Communist Party President | 17 August 1926 | 2019-10-01 | ||
| 23 | Valdas Adamkus | President | 3 November 1926 | 2019-12-13 | ||
| 24 | Raif Dizdarević | President of the Presidency | 9 December 1926 | 2019-11-22 | ||
| 25 | Thanin Kraivichien | Prime Minister | 5 April 1927 | 2019-01-11 | ||
| 26 | Benedict XVI | Pope and Sovereign | 16 April 1927 | 2020-01-13 | ||
| 27 | Arturo Armando Molina | President | 6 August 1927 | 2017-02-28 | ||
| 28 | Edward Babiuch | Polish People's Republic | Prime Minister | 28 December 1927 | 2014-01-31 | |
| 29 | Hans Modrow | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 27 January 1928 | 2019-08-23 | ||
| 30 | Ciriaco De Mita | Prime Minister | 2 February 1928 | 2019-07-23 | ||
| 31 | Kim Yong-nam | Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly | 4 February 1928 | 2019-04-13 | ||
| 32 | Arthur Dion Hanna | Governor-General | 7 March 1928 | 2019-03-11 | ||
| 33 | Fidel Ramos | President | 18 March 1928 | 2019-11-24 | ||
| 34 | Arnold Rüütel | Chairman of the Supreme Council President | 10 May 1928 | 2019-12-30 | ||
| 35 | Sir Arthur Foulkes | Governor-General | 11 May 1928 | 2019-06-12 | ||
| 36 | Enrique Bolaños | President | 13 May 1928 | 2019-08-21 | ||
| 37 | Balakh Sher Mazari | Acting Prime Minister | 8 July 1928 | 2019-04-25 | ||
| 38 | Péter Boross | Prime Minister | 27 August 1928 | 2020-06-04 | ||
| 39 | Kåre Willoch | Prime Minister | 3 October 1928 | 2019-03-16 | ||
| 40 | Borisav Jović | President of the Presidency | 19 October 1928 | 2019-08-01 | ||
| 41 | Zhu Rongji | Premier of the State Council | 23 October 1928 | 2019-06-30 | ||
| 42 | Poul Schlüter | Prime Minister | 3 April 1929 | 2019-07-12 | ||
| 43 | Christos Sartzetakis | President | 6 April 1929 | 2019-04-06 | ||
| 44 | Édouard Balladur | Prime Minister | 2 May 1929 | 2019-10-01 | ||
| 45 | Sam Nujoma | President | 12 May 1929 | 2019-09-10 | ||
| 46 | Otar Patsatsia | Prime Minister | 15 May 1929 | 2019-05-15 | ||
| 47 | Karolos Papoulias | President | 4 June 1929 | 2019-07-17 | ||
| 48 | John Turner | Prime Minister | 7 June 1929 | 2019-06-17 | ||
| 49 | Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | ' | Prime Minister Emir | 16 June 1929 | ' | 2020-07-18 |
| 50 | Sir Orville Turnquest | Governor-General | 19 July 1929 | 2019-07-21 | ||
| 51 | Jamshid bin Abdullah | Sultan | 2018-04-27 | |||
| 52 | Nikolai Ryzhkov | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 28 September 1929 | 2019-11-25 | ||
| 53 | Mir Hazar Khan Khoso | Acting Prime Minister | 30 September 1929 | 2017-01-02 | ||
| 54 | Violeta Chamorro | Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction President | 18 October 1929 | 2019-10-18 | ||
| 55 | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar | President | 2 November 1929 | 2020-02-23 | ||
| 56 | Gombojavyn Ochirbat | Mongolian People's Republic | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party | 15 November 1929 | 2019-11-26 | |
| 57 | Alfred Moisiu | President | 1 December 1929 | 2019-12-02 | ||
| 58 | Selim Hoss | President of the Council of Ministers Acting President | 20 December 1929 | 2019-02-14 | ||
| 58 | Lee Hyun-jae | Prime Minister | 20 December 1929 | 2019-01-14 | ||
| 58 | Milan Panić | Federal Prime Minister | 20 December 1929 | 2017-09-15 | ||
| 61 | Efraín Goldenberg | Prime Minister | 28 December 1929 | 2018-03-02 | ||
| 62 | Ahmed Osman | Prime Minister | 3 January 1930 | 2019-09-27 | ||
| 63 | Shahabuddin Ahmed | Acting President President | 1 February 1930 | 2018-01-12 | ||
| 64 | Ion Iliescu | Chairman of the National Salvation Front Council President of the Provisional National Unity Council President | 3 March 1930 | 2019-12-11 | ||
| 65 | Sir Anerood Jugnauth | Prime Minister President | 29 March 1930 | 2019-11-17 | ||
| 66 | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | President | 15 April 1930 | 2019-11-20 | ||
| 67 | José Sarney | President | 24 April 1930 | 2020-01-06 | ||
| 68 | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | President | 1 July 1930 | 2019-11-19 | ||
| 69 | Carlos Menem | President | 2 July 1930 | 2019-12-10 | ||
| 70 | Dame Ivy Dumont | Acting Governor-General Governor-General | 2 October 1930 | 2019-07-18 | ||
| 71 | Ivan Silayev | Chairman of the Interstate Economic Committee | 21 October 1930 | 2015-07-13 | ||
| 72 | Mabandla Dlamini | Prime Minister | 11 November 1930 | 2019-02-09 | ||
| 73 | Choe Yong-rim | Premier | 20 November 1930 | 2019-07-28 | ||
| 74 | Cesar Virata | Philippines | Prime Minister | 12 December 1930 | 2019-08-04 | |
| 75 | Dame Elmira Minita Gordon | Governor-General | 30 December 1930 | 2016-04-12 | ||
| 76 | Toshiki Kaifu | Prime Minister | 2 January 1931 | 2019-05-11 | ||
| 77 | Sir William Deane | Governor-General | 4 January 1931 | 2019-02-09 | ||
| 77 | Cleopa Msuya | Prime Minister | 4 January 1931 | 2019-08-19 | ||
| 79 | Chun Doo-hwan | De facto Head of State President | 18 January 1931 | 2019-12-16 | ||
| 80 | Sir Philip Greaves | Acting Governor-General | 19 January 1931 | 2019-05-08 | ||
| 81 | Dries van Agt | Prime Minister | 2 February 1931 | 2019-11-22 | ||
| 82 | Isabel Martínez de Perón | President | 4 February 1931 | 2020-02-04 | ||
| 83 | Lamberto Dini | Prime Minister | 1 March 1931 | 2019-11-15 | ||
| 84 | Mikhail Gorbachev | General Secretary of the Communist Party Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Chairman of the Supreme Soviet President | 2 March 1931 | 2020-03-02 | ||
| 85 | Sir Elliott Belgrave | Acting Governor-General Governor-General | 16 March 1931 | 2018-03-16 | ||
| 86 | Jean-Jacques Honorat | Prime Minister | 1 April 1931 | 2019-06-17 | ||
| 87 | Dame Catherine Tizard | Governor-General | 4 April 1931 | 2018-09-17 | ||
| 88 | Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Prime Minister | 15 May 1931 | 2019-10-03 | |
| 89 | Giorgos Vasiliou | President | 20 May 1931 | 2019-10-04 | ||
| 90 | Raúl Castro | ' | President of the Council of State President of the Council of Ministers First Secretary of the Communist Party | 3 June 1931 | ' | 2020-02-18 |
| 91 | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | President | 18 June 1931 | 2019-06-18 | ||
| 92 | Khieu Samphan | Kampuchea | Acting Prime Minister Chairman of the State Presidium | 27 July 1931 | 2020-04-24 | |
| 93 | Sir Paulias Matane | Governor-General | 21 September 1931 | 2019-12-16 | ||
| 94 | Pié Masumbuko | Acting Prime Minister | 29 September 1931 | 2019-05-18 | ||
| 95 | Sir Michael Hardie Boys | Governor-General | 6 October 1931 | 2012-07-14 | ||
| 96 | Nicola Mancino | Acting President | 15 October 1931 | 2019-06-23 | ||
| 96 | Ahmed Laraki | Prime Minister | 15 October 1931 | 2016-03-28 | ||
| 98 | Pascal Lissouba | Prime Minister President | 15 November 1931 | 2019-11-15 | ||
| 98 | Mwai Kibaki | President | 15 November 1931 | 2020-07-29 | ||
| 100 | Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar | Acting President | 1 December 1931 | 2018-12-28 |