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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	91	Cameroon	Prime Minister, then President[a]	30 June 1975	48 years, 285 days
2		Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	81	Equatorial Guinea	President[b]	3 August 1979	44 years, 251 days
3		Ali Khamenei	84	Iran	President, then Supreme Leader[c]	13 October 1981	42 years, 180 days
4		Denis Sassou Nguesso	80	Republic of the Congo	President[d]	8 February 1979 – 31 August 1992 (1st time) 25 October 1997 – present (2nd time)	40 years, 7 days
5		Yoweri Museveni	79	Uganda	President	26 January 1986	38 years, 75 days
6		Emomali Rahmon	71	Tajikistan	De facto Head of State, then President[e]	19 November 1992	31 years, 143 days
7		Isaias Afwerki	78	Eritrea	President[f]	24 May 1993	30 years, 322 days
8		Alexander Lukashenko	69	Belarus	President[g]	20 July 1994	29 years, 265 days
9		Daniel Ortega	78	Nicaragua	Acting Head of State, then President[h]	4 March 1981 – 25 April 1990 (1st time) 10 January 2007 – present (2nd time)	26 years, 143 days
10		Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	76	Djibouti	President	8 May 1999	24 years, 338 days
11		Vladimir Putin	71	Russia	Prime Minister, then President[i]	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)	24 years, 245 days
12		Paul Kagame	66	Rwanda	President	22 April 2000	23 years, 354 days
13		Hage Geingob	82	Namibia	Prime Minister, then President[j]	21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 (1st time) 4 December 2012 – present (2nd time)	23 years, 288 days
14		Bashar al-Assad	58	Syria	President	17 July 2000	23 years, 268 days
15		Ralph Gonsalves	77	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister	29 March 2001	23 years, 12 days
16		Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	70	Turkey	Prime Minister, then President[k]	14 March 2003	21 years, 27 days
17		Ilham Aliyev	62	Azerbaijan	Prime Minister, then President[l]	4 August 2003	20 years, 250 days
18		Shavkat Mirziyoyev	66	Uzbekistan	Prime Minister, then President[m]	12 December 2003	20 years, 120 days
19		Sheikh Hasina	76	Bangladesh	Prime Minister	23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001 (1st time) 6 January 2009 – present (2nd time)	20 years, 117 days
20		Roosevelt Skerrit	51	Dominica	Prime Minister	8 January 2004	20 years, 93 days
–		Mahmoud Abbas	88	Palestine	Prime Minister, then President[n]	19 March 2003 – 6 September 2003 (1st time) 15 January 2005 – present (2nd time)	19 years, 257 days
21		Lee Hsien Loong	72	Singapore	Prime Minister	12 August 2004	19 years, 242 days
22		Faure Gnassingbé	57	Togo	President[o]	5 February 2005 – 25 February 2005 (1st time) 4 May 2005 – present (2nd time)	18 years, 362 days
23		Viktor Orbán	60	Hungary	Prime Minister	6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002 (1st time) 29 May 2010 – present (2nd time)	17 years, 277 days
24		Alassane Ouattara	82	Côte d'Ivoire	Prime Minister, then President[p]	7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993 (1st time) 4 December 2010 – present (2nd time)	16 years, 160 days
25		Macky Sall	62	Senegal	Prime Minister, then President[q]	21 April 2004 – 19 June 2007 (1st time) 2 April 2012 – present (2nd time)	15 years, 68 days
26		Azali Assoumani	65	Comoros	President[r]	30 April 1999 – 21 January 2002 (1st time) 6 May 2002 – 26 May 2006 (2nd time) 26 May 2016 – present (3rd time)	14 years, 241 days
27		Mark Rutte	57	Netherlands	Prime Minister	14 October 2010	13 years, 179 days
28		Nguyễn Phú Trọng	79	Vietnam	General Secretary, formerly also President[s]	19 January 2011	13 years, 82 days
29		Faustin-Archange Touadéra	66	Central African Republic	Prime Minister, then President[t]	22 January 2008 – 17 January 2013 (1st time) 30 March 2016 – present (2nd time)	13 years, 7 days
30		Salva Kiir Mayardit	72	South Sudan	President[u]	9 July 2011	12 years, 276 days
31		Michael D. Higgins	82	Ireland	President	11 November 2011	12 years, 151 days
32		Kim Jong-un	41	North Korea	Supreme Leader[v]	17 December 2011	12 years, 115 days
33		Alain Berset	52	Switzerland	President, formerly Federal Council Member[w]	1 January 2012	12 years, 100 days
34		Sauli Niinistö	75	Finland	President	1 March 2012	12 years, 40 days
35		Xi Jinping	70	China	General Secretary, then President[x]	15 November 2012	11 years, 147 days
36		Nicolás Maduro	61	Venezuela	President[y]	5 March 2013	11 years, 36 days
37		Pope Francis	87	Vatican City	Sovereign	13 March 2013	11 years, 28 days
38		Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed	71	Djibouti	Prime Minister	1 April 2013	11 years, 9 days
39		Edi Rama	59	Albania	Prime Minister	15 September 2013	10 years, 208 days
40		Kokhir Rasulzoda	65	Tajikistan	Prime Minister	23 November 2013	10 years, 139 days