Longest Serving Leader of Every Country - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Country Years
Total
Years
Position(s) Answer % Correct
Italy 1922-1943 20.7 Duce Benito Mussolini
100%
Israel 1996-1999 2009-Now >17 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
100%
Afghanistan 1826-1839 1843-1863 36 Amīr ul-Mu'minīn Dost Mohammad Khan
100%
United States 1933-1945 12.1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
100%
Vietnam 1945-1969 24 Chairman of Provisional Revolutionary Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam / President of Provisional Coalition Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam / President of United Resistance Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam / Chairman of United National Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam / Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Central Committee / First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Central Committee / President Hồ Chí Minh
100%
Russia 1533-1584 50.3 Grand Prince / Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich
100%
Ghana 1979-1979 1981-2001 19.3 Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council / Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council / President Jerry Rawlings
100%
Portugal 1385-1433 48.4 King / Lord João I
100%
Andorra 1643-1715 72 Co-Prince Louis XIV
100%
France 1643-1715 72 King / Count / Dauphin Louis XIV
100%
Libya 1969-2011 42 Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council / Secretary General of the General People's Congress / Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Mu'ammar Qaḏḏāfī
100%
Germany 1871-1890 19 Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
100%
Brazil 1831-1889 58 Emperor (Dom) Pedro II
100%
Iraq 1979-2003 23.7 President / Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Saddam Hussein
100%
Belarus 1994-Now >30 President / Chairman Aleksandr Lukashenko
80%
Taiwan 1948-1949 1950-1975 25.8 President Chiang Kai-shek
80%
Central African Republic 1966-1979 13.7 President / Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa (Bokassa I)
80%
Canada 1921-1930 1935-1948 21.4 Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
80%
Albania 1944-1985 40.5 First Secretary of the Communist Party / First Secretary of the Labor Party Enver Hoxha
80%
Bulgaria 1887-1918 31.2 Prince / Tsar Ferdinand I
80%
Philippines 1965-1986 20.2 President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
80%
Cuba 1961-2008 46.7 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party / President of the Council / Prime Minister Fidel Castro
80%
Syria 1971-2000 29.2 President Hafez al-Assad
80%
Ethiopia 1930-1936 1941-1974 39 Negusa Nagast (Emperor) Haile Selassie
80%
Malawi 1966-1994 27.9 President Hastings Banda
80%
Jordan 1952-1999 46.5 King Hussein I
80%
India 1947-1964 16.8 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
80%
Vatican City 1978-2005 26.5 Pope John Paul II
80%
Tanzania 1962-1985 22.9 President Julius Nyerere
80%
Zambia 1964-1991 27 President Kenneth Kaunda
80%
North Korea 1945-1946 1948-1994 46.7
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Korea / First Secretary of the North Korean Branch Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea / First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of North Korea / Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea / General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea / Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Central People's Committee / Chairman of the National Defence Commission
Kim Il-Sung
80%
Egypt 1805-1848 43.2 Wāli / Pasha / Khedive Muhammad Ali
80%
Romania 1965-1989 24.8 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party / President / President of the State Council Nicolae Ceaușescu
80%
South Korea 1961-1979 18.2 Chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction / Acting President / President Park Chung Hee
80%
Cameroon 1982-Now >42 President Paul Biya
80%
Rwanda 1994-Now >30 Vice President / Minister of Defense / President Paul Kagame
80%
Spain 1621-1665 44.5 King / Count / Duke / Prince Philip IV
80%
Australia 1939-1941 1949-1966 18.4 Prime Minister Robert Menzies
80%
Zimbabwe 1980-2017 37.6 Prime Minister / President Robert Mugabe
80%
Indonesia 1967-1998 31.2 President Suharto
80%
Netherlands 1815-1840 25.6 King Willem I
80%
Saudi Arabia 1902-1953 51.9 Imam / Emir / Sultan / King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman al-Saud
60%
Paraguay 1954-1989 35.5 President Alfredo Stroessner
60%
South Africa 1966-1978 12.1 Prime Minister Balthazar Vorster
60%
Denmark 1588-1648 59.9 King Christian IV
60%
Thailand 1868-1910 42.1 King Chulalongkon (Rama V)
60%
Norway 872-930 or 1219-1263 58 or 44 King Haraldr Hárfagri / Hákon IV Hákonarson
60%
Bolivia 2006-2019 13 President Evo Morales
60%
Morocco 1961-1999 38.4 King Hassan II bin Muhammad
60%
Cambodia 1984-1993 1998-2023 33.2 Prime Minister Hun Sen
60%
Azerbaijan 2003-Now >21 President Ilham Aliyev
60%
Angola 1979-2017 38 President José Eduardo dos Santos
60%
Singapore 1959-1990 31.5 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew
60%
Belgium 1865-1909 44 King Leopold II
60%
Senegal 1960-1980 20.3 President Léopold Sédar Senghor
60%
Malaysia 1981-2003 2018-2020 24.1 Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad
60%
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1965-1997 31.4 President Mobutu Sese Seko
60%
Pakistan 1958-1969 10.4 Chief Martial Law Administrator / President Mohammad Ayub Khan
60%
Myanmar 1962-1988 26.1 Chairman of the Union Revolutionary Council / Prime Minister / President / Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party Ne Win
60%
Kazakhstan 1990-2019 28.9 President Nūrsūltan Nazarbaev
60%
Sudan 1989-2019 29.8 Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation / President Omar al-Bashir
60%
Gabon 1967-2009 41.5 President Omar Bongo
60%
Mexico 1876-1880 1884-1911 30.3 President Porfirio Díaz
60%
China 1735-1799 63.3 Emperor / Taishang Huang Qiánlóng Dì
60%
Bangladesh 1996-2001 2009-2024 20.6 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
60%
Colombia 1819-1830 11.2 President Simón Bolívar
60%
Türkiye 1520-1566 45.9 Sultan / Padishah / Caliph / 'Amīr al-Mu'minīn Süleyman-ı Evvel
60%
Equatorial Guinea 1979-Now >45 President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
60%
Uganda 1986-Now >39 President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
60%
Algeria 1999-2019 19.9 President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
40%
Guinea 1958-1984 25.5 President Ahmed Sékou Touré
40%
Serbia 2017-Now >9.8 Prime Minister / President (De Facto Executive) Aleksandar Vučić
40%
Kyrgyzstan 1990-2005 14.4 President Askar Akayev
40%
Chile 1973-1990 16.5 President Augusto Pinochet
40%
Austria 1970-1983 13 Chancellor Bruno Kreisky
40%
Nicaragua 1979-1990 2007-Now >28 Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction / President / Co-president Daniel Ortega
40%
Republic of the Congo 1979-1992 1997-Now >41 President Denis Sassou Nguesso
40%
Yemen 1978-2012 33.6 President 'Ali 'Abdullah Salih
40%
United Arab Emirates 1971-2004 32.9 President Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan
40%
Ireland 1919-1922 1932-1948 1951-1954 1957-1959 24 President of Dáil Éireann / President of the Executive Council / President of the Irish Republic / Chairman of the Provisional Government / Taoiseach Éamon de Valera
40%
Tajikistan 1992-Now >31 Chairman of the Supreme Assembly / President Emomali Rahmon
40%
Turkmenistan 2006-2022 2023-Now >17 Acting President / President / Chairman of the People's Council / National Leader of the Turkmen People Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
40%
Tunisia 1956-1987 31.6 Prime Minister / Interim President / President Habib Bourguiba
40%
Eritrea 1991-Now >33 Secretary-General / President Isaias Afwerki
40%
Uzbekistan 1990-2016 26.4 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan / President Islam Karimov
40%
Hungary 1956-1988 31.6 First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party / First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party / General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János József Kádár
40%
Ukraine 1994-2005 10.5 President Leonid Kuchma
40%
Palestine 1969-2004 >20 Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization / Acting President / President Mahmoud Abbas
40%
Somalia 1969-1991 21.3 Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council / President / General Secretary of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party Maxamed Siyaad Barre
40%
Armenia 2018-Now >7 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
40%
Nigeria 1976-1979 1999-2007 11.6 Head of State / President / Chief Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́
40%
Monaco 1949-2005 56 Prince Rainier III
40%
United Kingdom 1721-1742 20.9 First Lord of the Treasury / Chancellor of the Exchequer / Leader of the House of Commons / Earl Robert Walpole
40%
Namibia 1990-2005 15 President Sam Nujoma
40%
Tonga 1970-2006 36.3 Tupoutoʻa / King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
40%
Mongolia 1952-1984 32 First Secretary of the Central Committee / Chairman of the Council of Ministers / General Secretary of the Central Committee / Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
40%
Croatia 2016-Now >8 Prime Minister Andrej Plenković
20%
Burkina Faso 1987-2014 27 President Blaise Compaoré
20%
Kenya 1978-2002 24.4 President Daniel arap Moi
20%
Belize 2008-2020 12.8 Prime Minister Dean Barrow
20%
Georgia 2013-2015 2021-2024 (2012-Now) 5 (>12) Prime Minister / Chairman / Honorary Chairman / Oligarch Irakli Garibashvili / Bidzina Ivanishvili (Possibly De Facto)
20%
Kuwait 1977-1990 1991-2006 27.4 Emir / Sheikh Jābir al-Ahmad al-Jābir as-Sabāh
20%
Guyana 1966-1985 19.2 Prime Minister / President Forbes Burnham
20%
Seychelles 1977-2004 27.1 Prime Minister France-Albert René
20%
Chad 1991-2021 30.4 President Idriss Déby
20%
Bahrain 1869-1923 54 Hakim / Sheikh Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa
20%
Djibouti 1999-Now >25 President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
20%
Bhutan 1972-2006 34 Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) Jigme Singye Wangchuck
20%
Dominican Republic 1960-1962 1966-1978 1986-1996 23.6 President Joaquín Balaguer
20%
Liechtenstein 1858-1929 70.2 Prince / Duke / Count Johann II
20%
Argentina 1831-1832 1835-1852 18 Governor / Supreme Chief Juan Manuel de Rosas
20%
Venezuela 1908-1935 27 De Facto Military Ruler / President Juan Vicente Gómez
20%
Latvia 1918-1921 1925-1926 1931-1931 1934-1940 9.9 Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis
20%
Qatar 1972-1995 23.4 Emir / Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani
20%
Cyprus 1960-1977 16.6 President Makarios III
20%
El Salvador 1931-1944 11.9 Provisional President / President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
20%
Mali 1968-1991 22.3 President Moussa Traoré
20%
Eswatini 1986-Now >38 iNgwenyama Mswati III
20%
Burundi 2005-2020 14.8 President Pierre Nkurunziza
20%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2001-Now >24 Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
20%
Fiji 1970-1992 21 Prime Minister Ratu Kamisese Mara
20%
Slovakia 2006-2010 2012-2018 2023-Now >11 Prime Minister Robert Fico
20%
South Sudan 2011-Now >13 President Salva Kiir Mayardit
20%
Sri Lanka 1960-1965 1970-1977 11.8 Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike
20%
Japan 1787-1837 50.1 Seii Taishougun Tokugawa Ienari
20%
Liberia 1944-1971 27.6 President William Tubman
20%
Poland 1386-1434 48.3 King Władysław II Jagiełło
20%
Timor-Leste 2007-2015 2023-Now >9 Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão
20%
Brunei 1598-1659 61 Sultan Abdul Jalil al-Akbar
0%
Marshall Islands 1979-1996 17.1 President / Iroijlaplap Amata Kabua
0%
Lithuania 1999-2000 2008-2012 5 Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius
0%
Estonia 2005-2014 9 Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
0%
Kiribati 2003-2016 12.7 President Anote Tong
0%
Cabo Verde 1975-1991 15.7 President Aristides Pereira
0%
Peru 1908-1912 1919-1930 15.2 President / Provisional President Augusto B. Leguía
0%
Comoros 1999-2006 2016-Now >15 Chief of Staff of the National Development Army / Head of State / President Azali Assoumani
0%
Iceland 1991-2004 13.4 Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson
0%
Gambia 1970-1994 24.2 President Dawda Jawara
0%
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1995-2015 19.6 Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
0%
Madagascar 1975-1993 1997-2002 23.2 President Didier Ratsiraka
0%
Uruguay 1985-1990 1995-2000 and 2005-2010 2015-2020 10 President Tabaré Vázquez / Julio María Sanguinetti
0%
San Marino 1860-1908 48 Secretary for Foreign Affairs Domenico Fattori
0%
Malta 1987-1996 1998-2004 15 Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami
0%
Trinidad and Tobago 1962-1981 18.6 Prime Minister Eric Williams
0%
Côte d'Ivoire 1960-1993 33.1 President Félix Houphouët-Boigny
0%
Togo 1967-2005 37.8 President Gnassingbé Eyadéma
0%
Nauru 1968-1976 1978-1989 19.8 President Hammer DeRoburt
0%
Kosovo 2008-2014 6.9 Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
0%
Transnistria 1990-2011 20.1 Chairman of the Provisional Supreme Soviet / Chairman of the Republic / President Igor Smirnov
0%
Slovenia 1992-2002 10.1 Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek
0%
Haiti 1818-1843 24.9 President Jean-Pierre Boyer
0%
Guinea-Bissau 1980-1999 2005-2009 21.9 Chairman of the Council of the Revolution / Chairman of the Council of State / President João Bernardo Vieira
0%
Mozambique 1986-2005 18.2 President Joaquim Chissano
0%
Saint Lucia 1979-1979 1982-1996 2006-2007 15 Prime Minister John Compton
0%
Costa Rica 1948-1949 1953-1958 1970-1974 10 President José Figueres Ferrer
0%
Ecuador 1934-1935 1944-1947 1952-1956 1960-1961 1968-1972 12.8 President José María Velasco Ibarra
0%
Lesotho 1966-1986 19.3 Prime Minister / Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan
0%
Nepal 1846-1856 1857-1877 29.5 Prime Minister / Maharaja / Supreme Commander-in-Chief Jung Bahadur Rana
0%
Switzerland 1863-1895 31.6 President / Member of the Swiss Federal Council Karl Schenk
0%
Grenada 1995-2008 2013-2022 22.4 Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
0%
South Ossetia 2001-2011 10 President Kokojty Ĝabejy fyrt Eduard
0%
Greece 1955-1963 1974-1980 13.4 Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis
0%
Laos 1955-1992 37.7 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Party / General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party / Chairman of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party / President / Prime Minister Kraisorn Brahmavihara
0%
Bahamas 1973-1992 19 Prime Minister Lynden Pindling
0%
Mauritania 1984-2005 20.6 President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed al-Taya
0%
Sweden 1319-1364 44.6 King Magnus Eriksson
0%
Solomon Islands 2000-2001 2006-2007 2014-2017 2019-2024 11.1 Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare
0%
Guatemala 1898-1920 22.2 President Manuel Estrada Cabrera
0%
São Tomé and Príncipe 1975-1991 2011-2016 20.6 President Manuel Pinto da Costa
0%
Benin 1975-1991 1996-2006 25.4 President Mathieu Kérékou
0%
Maldives 1978-2008 30 President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
0%
Papua New Guinea 1975-1980 1982-1985 2002-2010 2011-2011 16.3 Prime Minister Michael Somare
0%
Montenegro 2006-2006 2008-2010 2012-2016 7.3 Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
0%
Western Sahara 1976-2016 39.8 Secretary General / President Mohamed Abdelaziz
0%
North Macedonia 2006-2016 9.4 Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
0%
Panama 1968-1981 12.8 Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution Omar Torrijos
0%
Barbados 1994-2008 13.4 Prime Minister Owen Arthur
0%
Luxembourg 1888-1915 27.1 President of the Government / Minister of State Paul Eyschen
0%
Jamaica 1992-2006 14 Prime Minister P. J. Patterson
0%
Botswana 1980-1998 17.7 President Quett Masire
0%
Lebanon 1955-1956 1958-1970 1975-1976 1984-1987 13.3 Prime Minister Rashid Karami
0%
Northern Cyprus 1975-2005 30.2 President Rauf Denktaş
0%
Suriname 1991-1996 2000-2010 15 President Ronald Venetiaan
0%
Dominica 2004-Now >21 Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
0%
Oman 1804-1856 52 Imam / Sultan / Sayyid Saʿīd bin Sulṭān al-Busaidi
0%
Mauritius 1968-1982 14.3 Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
0%
Niger 1974-1987 13.6 President / General Seyni Kountché
0%
Sierra Leone 1971-1985 14.6 President Siaka Stevens
0%
Iran 1527-1576 49 Shāh Tahmâsb I
0%
Finland 1972-1975 1977-1979 1982-1987 10 Prime Minister Taisto Kalevi Sorsa
0%
Palau 2001-2009 2013-2021 16 President Thomas Remengesau Jr.
0%
Honduras 1924-1924 1933-1949 15.9 President Tiburcio Carías Andino
0%
Tuvalu 1981-1989 8.1 Prime Minister Tomasi Puapua
0%
Micronesia 1979-1987 and 2007-2015 8 President Tosiwo Nakayama / Manny Mori
0%
Samoa 1998-2021 22.5 Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Lupesoliai Neioti Aiono Saʻilele Malielegaoi
0%
Czech Republic 1993-1998 5 Prime Minister Václav Klaus
0%
Moldova 2001-2008 7 Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev
0%
Antigua and Barbuda 1981-1994 12.4 Prime Minister Vere Bird
0%
Abkhazia 1990-2005 14.1 Chairman of the Supreme Soviet / Chairman of Parliament / President Vladislav Ardzinba
0%
Vanuatu 1980-1991 11.1 Prime Minister Walter Lin̄i
0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006-2014 2018-Now >14 Member of the Presidency Željko Komšić
0%
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