List of longest ruling non-royal leaders
The list of longest ruling non-royal leaders of all time details leaders of countries who ruled for more than 30 consecutive years, and were not royalty, sorted by length of tenure:
No. |
Name |
Country |
Succession |
Tenure Ended |
Length of Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |
Fidel Castro |
Cuba |
1959 |
2008 |
49 years, 8 days |
2. |
Kim Il-sung |
North Korea |
1948 |
1994 |
45 years, 302 days |
3. |
Omar Bongo |
Gabon |
1967 |
2009 |
41 years, 188 days |
4. |
Muammar al-Gaddafi |
Libya |
1969 |
Present |
|
5. |
Enver Hoxha |
Albania |
1944 |
1985 |
40 years, 154 days |
6. |
Gnassingbé Eyadéma |
Togo |
1967 |
2005 |
37 years, 297 days |
7. |
Francisco Franco |
Spain |
1939 |
1975 |
36 years, 288 days |
8. |
António de Oliveira Salazar |
Portugal |
1932 |
1968 |
36 years, 82 days |
9. |
Todor Zhivkov |
Bulgaria |
1954 |
1989 |
35 years, 258 days |
10. |
Paul Biya |
Cameroon |
1975 |
Present |
|
11. |
Alfredo Stroessner |
Paraguay |
1954 |
1989 |
34 years, 172 days |
12. |
Josip Broz Tito |
Yugoslavia |
1945 |
1980 |
34 years, 157 days |
13. |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
Cote d'Ivoire |
1960 |
1993 |
33 years, 122 days |
14. |
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal |
Mongolia |
1952 |
1984 |
32 years, 210 days |
15. |
Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Yemen |
1978 |
Present |
|
16. |
János Kádár |
Hungary |
1956 |
1988 |
31 years, 214 days |
17. |
Habib Bourguiba |
Tunisia |
1956 |
1987 |
31 years, 210 days |
18. |
Lee Kuan Yew |
Singapore |
1959 |
1990 |
31 years, 176 days |
19. |
Mobutu Sese Seko |
Zaire |
1965 |
1997 |
31 years, 173 days |
20. |
Suharto |
Indonesia |
1967 |
1998 |
31 years, 70 days |
21. |
Joseph Stalin |
Soviet Union |
1922 |
1953 |
30 years, 336 days |
22. |
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo |
Equatorial Guinea |
1979 |
Present |
|
23. |
José Eduardo dos Santos |
Angola |
1979 |
Present |
|
24. |
Abdou Diouf |
Senegal |
1970 |
2000 |
30 years, 35 days |
25. |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom |
Maldives |
1978 |
2008 |
30 years, 0 days |
External links
- Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places