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List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office

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Sultan of Brunei]], has ruled since 1967.

This is a list of current state leaders ordered by their continuous tenure in a position of national leadership. For countries in which the head of state and head of government are separate, both offices are listed. For leaders who held the same office prior to their state's independence, the start of their tenure is used, not independence. For a list of heads of state taking dates of independence into account, see List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence.

Acting presidents are included in this list, but if a leader has non-consecutive terms, only the current period of service is listed.

States where head of state differs from head of government are mainly parliamentary systems. Often a leader holds both positions in presidential systems or dictatorships. Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state.

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List of state leaders by date of assuming office

Prior to 2000

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
5 October 1967		Brunei	{{ubl
15 September 1973	Carl XVI Gustaf	Sweden	King
30 June 1975		Cameroon	{{ubl
3 August 1979	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Equatorial Guinea	{{ubl
13 October 1981		Iran	{{ubl
10 August 1983	Ntfombi	Eswatini	{{ubl
26 August 1984	Hans-Adam II	Liechtenstein	{{ubl
29 January 1986		Uganda	President
25 April 1986	Mswati III	Eswatini	King
1 June 1990	Harald V	Norway	{{ubl
27 April 1991		Eritrea	{{ubl
19 November 1992		Tajikistan	{{ubl
20 July 1994		Belarus	{{ubl
7 February 1996	Letsie III	Lesotho	King
25 October 1997		Republic of the Congo Congo-Brazzaville	President
25 January 1999	Abdullah II	Jordan	{{ubl
6 March 1999	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	Bahrain	{{ubl
8 May 1999		Djibouti	President
23 July 1999	Mohammed VI	Morocco	King
9 August 1999		Russia	{{ubl

2000–2009

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
24 March 2000		Rwanda	{{ubl
14 March 2003		Turkey	{{ubl
4 August 2003		Azerbaijan	{{ubl
12 December 2003		Uzbekistan	{{ubl
8 January 2004		Dominica	Prime Minister
15 August 2004	Alois	Liechtenstein	Prince-Regent
14 October 2004		Cambodia	King
15 January 2005		Palestine	President
31 March 2005	Albert II	Monaco	{{ubl
4 May 2005		Togo	{{ubl
30 July 2005		South Sudan	{{ubl
11 February 2006	Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	Prime Minister
9 December 2006	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	Bhutan	King
10 January 2007		Nicaragua	{{ubl
26 February 2009		Jamaica	Governor-General

2010–2014

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
29 May 2010		Hungary	Prime Minister
4 December 2010		Ivory Coast	President
17 December 2011	Kim Jong Un	North Korea	Supreme Leader
18 March 2012	Tupou VI	Tonga	King
15 November 2012	Xi Jinping	China	{{ubl
1 April 2013		Djibouti	Prime Minister
30 April 2013	Willem-Alexander	Kingdom of the Netherlands	King
7 May 2013		Grenada	Governor-General
25 June 2013	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Qatar	Emir
21 July 2013	Philippe	Belgium	King
15 September 2013		Albania	Prime Minister
23 November 2013		Tajikistan	Prime Minister
25 January 2014	Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	United Arab Emirates	{{ubl
27 April 2014		Serbia	{{ubl
26 May 2014		India	Prime Minister
8 June 2014	{{sortname	Abdel Fattah	el-Sisi	Sisi}}	Egypt
13 June 2014		Antigua and Barbuda	Prime Minister
19 June 2014	Felipe VI	Spain	King
14 August 2014		Antigua and Barbuda	Governor-General

2015–2017

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
23 January 2015	Salman	Saudi Arabia	{{ubl
3 February 2015		Italy	President
6 February 2015	Abdul-Malik al-Houthi	Yemen *Yemen (Supreme
Revolutionary Committee, then
Supreme Political
Council)*	Leader of Ansar Allah
1 January 2016		Switzerland	{{ubl
3 March 2016		Jamaica	Prime Minister
9 March 2016		Portugal	President
11 March 2016		Kiribati	President
30 March 2016		Central African Republic	President
6 April 2016		Benin	President
20 April 2016		Laos	{{ubl
22 April 2016		Cape Verde	Prime Minister
26 May 2016	Azali Assoumani	Comoros	President
12 July 2016	**	Sahrawi Republic	General Secretary of the Polisario Front and President
13 October 2016	Vajiralongkorn	Thailand	King
19 October 2016		Croatia	Prime Minister
14 December 2016		Uzbekistan	Prime Minister
16 December 2016	**	Transnistria	President
19 January 2017		The Gambia	President
26 January 2017		Austria	President
28 February 2017		Papua New Guinea	Governor-General
19 March 2017		Germany	President
14 May 2017		Andorra	French Co-Prince
France	President
21 July 2017	Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Sualauvi II	Samoa	O le Ao o le Malo
26 September 2017		Angola	President
1 October 2017		Syria	{{ubl
1 November 2017		Switzerland	{{ubl
24 November 2017		Zimbabwe	President

2018–2019

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
14 February 2018		South Africa	{{ubl
2 April 2018	Abiy Ahmed	Ethiopia	Prime Minister
4 April 2018		Sierra Leone	President
19 April 2018		Cuba	{{ubl
25 April 2018	Mahdi al-Mashat	Yemen *Yemen (Supreme
Political Council)*	Chairman of the Supreme Political Council
8 May 2018		Armenia	Prime Minister
25 May 2018		Barbados	Prime Minister
2 June 2018		Spain	Prime Minister
7 June 2018		Egypt	{{ubl
20 November 2018		Bosnia and Herzegovina	{{ubl
16 December 2018		Georgia (country)	President: 16 December 201829 December 2024
Georgia (country) Georgia	President: 29 December 2024present
1 January 2019		Switzerland	{{ubl
4 January 2019		Cameroon	Prime Minister
24 January 2019		Congo-Kinshasa	President
20 March 2019		Kazakhstan	{{ubl
12 April 2019	Abdel Fattah al-Burhan	Sudan	{{ubl
1 May 2019	Naruhito	Japan	Emperor
16 May 2019		Andorra	Prime Minister
20 May 2019		Ukraine	President
30 May 2019		Papua New Guinea	Prime Minister
1 June 2019		El Salvador	President
27 June 2019		Denmark	Prime Minister
12 July 2019		Lithuania	President
1 August 2019		Mauritania	President
8 October 2019		Azerbaijan	Prime Minister
23 October 2019		Tunisia	President
19 December 2019		Algeria	President
21 December 2019		Cuba	Prime Minister

2020–2021

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
8 January 2020		San Marino	Secretary for Foreign and Political Affairs
11 January 2020	Haitham bin Tariq	Oman	Sultan and Prime Minister
13 January 2020		Malta	Prime Minister
Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun	Sahrawi Republic	Prime Minister
16 January 2020		Russia	Prime Minister
18 February 2020		Croatia	President
18 June 2020		Burundi	President
2 August 2020		Guyana	President
	Prime Minister
14 August 2020	**	Belarus Belarus (opposition)	{{ubl
16 August 2020		Dominican Republic	President
11 November 2020	Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa	Bahrain	Prime Minister
12 November 2020		Belize	Prime Minister
24 December 2020		Moldova	President
21 January 2021		Palau	President
28 January 2021		Kyrgyzstan	President
2 February 2021			{{ubl
9 March 2021	Mahn Winn Khaing Thann	Myanmar Myanmar (opposition)	{{ubl
15 March 2021	{{sortname	Mohamed	al-Menfi	Menfi}}	Libya
	Prime Minister
19 March 2021	Samia Suluhu Hassan	Tanzania	President
22 March 2021	**	Kosovo	Prime Minister
4 April 2021	**	President
5 April 2021	{{sortname	Phạm Minh	Chính	Chính}}	Vietnam
16 April 2021	Duwa Lashi La	Myanmar Myanmar (opposition)	Acting President
20 April 2021		Chad	{{ubl
18 May 2021		Congo-Brazzaville	Prime Minister
24 May 2021		Mali	{{ubl
27 May 2021		Belize	Governor-General
21 June 2021		Uganda	Prime Minister
25 June 2021	{{sortname	Ukhnaagiin	Khürelsükh	Khürelsükh}}	Mongolia
7 July 2021		Israel	President
26 July 2021		Canada	Governor General
28 July 2021		Saint Lucia	Prime Minister
1 August 2021		Bosnia and Herzegovina	High Representative
15 August 2021		Afghanistan	Supreme Leader
24 August 2021		Zambia	President
5 September 2021		Guinea	{{ubl
7 September 2021		Afghanistan	{{ubl
17 September 2021		The Bahamas	Prime Minister
29 September 2021		Tuvalu	Governor-General
2 October 2021		São Tomé and Príncipe	President
7 October 2021		Morocco	Prime Minister
11 October 2021		Estonia	President
14 October 2021		Norway	Prime Minister
21 October 2021		New Zealand	Governor-General
9 November 2021		Cape Verde	President
11 November 2021		Saint Lucia	{{ubl

2022

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
		Central African Republic	Prime Minister
		Chile	President
		Armenia	President
		Turkmenistan	President
		Yemen	Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council
		Costa Rica	President
	Ünal Üstel	Northern Cyprus	Prime Minister
		Timor-Leste	President
		Australia	Prime Minister
	**	South Ossetia	President
	**	Transnistria	Prime Minister
		Slovenia	Prime Minister
	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud	Somalia	President
	**	South Ossetia	Prime Minister
		Grenada	Prime Minister
	Hamza Abdi Barre	Somalia	Prime Minister
		Philippines	President
		Vanuatu	President
		Albania	President
		India	President
		Saint Kitts and Nevis	Prime Minister
		Colombia	President
	Charles III	Antigua and Barbuda	King
Australia	King
The Bahamas	King
Belize	King
Canada	King
Grenada	King
Jamaica	King
New Zealand	King
Papua New Guinea	King
Saint Kitts and Nevis	King
Saint Lucia	King
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	King
Solomon Islands	King
Tuvalu	King
United Kingdom	King
		Kenya	President
		Saudi Arabia	Prime Minister
		Burkina Faso	{{ubl
		Iraq	President
		Sweden	Prime Minister
		Italy	Prime Minister
		Iraq	Prime Minister
	Kenya	Prime Cabinet Secretary
		Lesotho	Prime Minister
		Bosnia and Herzegovina	{{ubl
	{{ubl	Presidency Member: 16 November 2022present	Chairwoman of the Presidency: 16 November 202216 July 2023; 16 November 202416 July 2025
	Anwar Ibrahim	Malaysia	Prime Minister
		Slovenia	President
		Fiji	Prime Minister
		Israel	Prime Minister
		Laos	Prime Minister

2023

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
	{{sortname	Luiz Inácio	Lula da Silva	Lula}}	Brazil
	Switzerland	Federal Councilor
	Federal Councilor
		Bosnia and Herzegovina	Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers
		Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General
		Cyprus	President
	Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani	Qatar	Prime Minister
		Czech Republic	President
	Li Qiang	China	Premier
		Nepal	President
		Trinidad and Tobago	President
		Bangladesh	President
		Micronesia	President
	Osama Hammad	Libya *Libya (Government of
National Stability)*	Acting prime minister
		Montenegro	President
		Nigeria	President
		Finland	Prime Minister
		Greece	Prime Minister
		Timor-Leste	Prime Minister
		Latvia	President
		Sierra Leone	Chief Minister
		Niger	{{ubl
		Acting prime minister
		Paraguay	President
	Hun Manet	Cambodia	Prime Minister
		Gabon	{{ubl
		The Bahamas	Governor-General
		Singapore	President
		Latvia	Prime Minister
		Dominica	President
		Ivory Coast	Prime Minister
		Slovakia	Prime Minister
		Nauru	President
		Montenegro	Prime Minister
		Eswatini	Prime Minister
		Luxembourg	Prime Minister
	Maldives	President
		Ecuador	President
		New Zealand	Prime Minister
		Andorra	Personal Representative of the Episcopal Co-Prince
		Argentina	President
		Poland	Prime Minister
	Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Kuwait	Emir

2024

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
		Switzerland	Federal Councilor
		Marshall Islands	President
	Frederik X	Denmark	King
		Guatemala	President
		Liberia	President
		Bhutan	Prime Minister
		Malaysia	King
		Kazakhstan	Prime Minister
		Georgia (country)	Prime Minister
		Tuvalu	Prime Minister
		Guinea	Prime Minister
		Finland	President
	Shehbaz Sharif	Pakistan	Prime Minister
		Hungary	President
		Pakistan	President
		Palestine	Prime Minister
		Portugal	Prime Minister
	Senegal	President
		Prime Minister
		Malta	President
		Solomon Islands	Prime Minister
		North Macedonia	President
	Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah	Kuwait	Prime Minister
	Singapore	Prime Minister
	Lai Ching-te	Taiwan	President
Cho Jung-tai	Premier
	{{sortname	Tô	Lâm	Lâm}}	Vietnam
		Chad	Prime Minister
		Congo-Kinshasa	Prime Minister
		Slovakia	President
		North Macedonia	Prime Minister
	Panama	President
		Kingdom of the Netherlands	Prime Minister
		United Kingdom	Prime Minister
		Solomon Islands	Governor-General
		Estonia	Prime Minister
		Iran	President
	{{sortname	Halla	Tómasdóttir	Halla}}	Iceland
		Mauritania	Prime Minister
		Bangladesh	Chief Adviser
	{{sortname	Manuel	Osa Nsue Nsua	Osa}}	Equatorial Guinea
		Jordan	Prime Minister
		Sri Lanka	President
		Prime Minister
		Mexico	President
	Taye Atske Selassie	Ethiopia	President
	{{sortname	Guillaume V	Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg}}	Luxembourg
	Prabowo Subianto	Indonesia	President
	{{sortname	Lương	Cường	Lương}}	Vietnam
		Botswana	President
		Haiti	Acting prime minister
	{{sortname	Naiqama	Lalabalavu	Naiqama}}	Fiji
		Mauritius	Prime Minister
	**	Abkhazia	{{ubl
		Andorra	Personal Representative of the French Co-Prince
		Mali	Acting prime minister
		Mauritius	President
		Burkina Faso	Interim prime minister
	Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi	Somaliland	President
		Kyrgyzstan	{{ubl
	{{sortname	Kristrún	Frostadóttir	Kristrún}}	Iceland
		Georgia (country)	President
Pak Thae-song	North Korea	Premier

2025

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
		Ghana	President
		Lebanon	President
		São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister
		Mozambique	President
	Prime Minister
		Bulgaria	Prime Minister
		United States	President
		Ireland	Taoiseach
		Belgium	Prime Minister
		Lebanon	Prime Minister
		Vanuatu	Prime Minister
		Nicaragua	Co-President
		Uruguay	President
	Vatican City	President of the Governorate
	**	Abkhazia	{{ubl
	Austria	Chancellor
		Belarus	Prime Minister
		Greece	President
		Canada	Prime Minister
	Community Support Committee	*Palestine Palestine (Hamas
government in Gaza)*	Government Administrative Committee
		Namibia	President
	Prime Minister
	Tunisia	Prime Minister
		Switzerland	Federal Councilor
		Liechtenstein	Prime Minister
	Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo	*Sudan Sudan (Government of
Peace and Unity)*	Chairman of the Presidential Council
		Serbia	Prime Minister
		Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister
		Togo	President
		Germany	Chancellor
	{{sortname	Leo XIV	Pope Leo XIV}}	Vatican City
	Izz al-Din al-Haddad	*Palestine Palestine (Hamas
government in Gaza)*	Acting Leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip
		Sudan	Prime Minister
		Romania	President
	Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat	Andorra	Episcopal Co-Prince
	Lee Jae Myung	South Korea	President
	{{sortname	Gombojavyn	Zandanshatar	Zandanshatar}}	Mongolia
		Romania	Prime Minister
	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	Prime Minister
		Suriname	President
		Ukraine	Prime Minister
		Monaco	Minister of State
		Rwanda	Prime Minister
	Mohammed Hassan al-Ta'ishi	*Sudan Sudan (Government of
Peace and Unity)*	Prime Minister
	Nyo Saw	Myanmar	Prime Minister
		Burundi	Prime Minister
		Poland	President
		Haiti	President of the Transitional Presidential Council
		Algeria	{{ubl
	Muhammad Ahmed Miftah	Yemen *Yemen (Supreme
Political Council)*	Acting prime minister
		Thailand	Prime Minister
		France	Prime Minister
		Nepal	Interim prime minister
		Samoa	Prime Minister
		Lithuania	Prime Minister
		San Marino	Captain Regent
		Malawi	President
		Peru	President
		Prime Minister
	Madagascar	{{ubl
		Japan	Prime Minister
		Madagascar	Prime Minister
	Tufan Erhürman	Northern Cyprus	President
		Seychelles	President
		Moldova	Prime Minister
		Bolivia	President
		Ireland	President
		Tanzania	Prime Minister
		Guinea-Bissau	{{ubl
		Prime Minister
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister
		Barbados	President
		Czech Republic	Prime Minister
		Tonga	Prime Minister

2026

Assumed office	Leader	State	Office
		Venezuela	Acting president
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Governor-General
		Yemen	Prime Minister
		Bulgaria	President
		Honduras	President

List of upcoming leaders

Taking office	Leader	State	Office
February		Bangladesh	Prime Minister --
		Chile	President

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