The list of current longest ruling non-royal leaders is a list of the 50 current longest ruling heads of state or government, who are not royalty, sorted by length of tenure.

The individuals on the list were not necessary the most powerful figure in their country's government throughout the listed timespan. Some of them have held more than one national leadership level office: presidency, prime ministership, 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 government actually has the greatest power. This list combines all national leader level offices held concurrently or consecutively by each individual.

No.↓Name↓Country↓Office↓Tenure Began↓Length of Tenure↓
1.Muammar al-Gaddafi LibyaLeader and Guide of the Revolution1 September 196941 years, 174 days
2.Paul Biya CameroonPrime Minister, then President30 June 197535 years, 237 days
3.Ali Abdullah Saleh YemenPresident18 July 197832 years, 219 days
4.Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Equatorial GuineaPresident3 August 197931 years, 203 days
5.José Eduardo dos Santos AngolaPresident10 September 197931 years, 165 days
6.Robert Mugabe ZimbabwePrime Minister, then President18 April 198030 years, 310 days
7.Ali Khamenei IranPresident, then Supreme Leader2 October 198129 years, 143 days
8.Hun Sen CambodiaPrime Minister14 January 198526 years, 39 days
9.Yoweri Museveni UgandaPresident26 January 198625 years, 27 days
10.Blaise Compaoré Burkina FasoPresident15 October 198723 years, 130 days
11.Nursultan Nazarbayev KazakhstanFirst Secretary, then President22 June 198921 years, 245 days
12.Islom Karimov UzbekistanFirst Secretary, then President23 June 198921 years, 244 days
13.Omar al-Bashir SudanPresident30 June 198921 years, 237 days
14.Idriss Déby ChadPresident2 December 199020 years, 82 days
15.Meles Zenawi EthiopiaPrime Minister28 May 199119 years, 270 days
16.Emomalii Rahmon TajikistanPresident19 November 199218 years, 95 days
17.Isaias Afewerki EritreaPresident24 May 199317 years, 274 days
18.Kim Jong-il North KoreaChairman of the National Defence Commission8 July 199416 years, 229 days
19.Alexander Lukashenko BelarusPresident20 July 199416 years, 217 days
20.Yahya Jammeh GambiaPresident22 July 199416 years, 215 days
21.Jean-Claude Juncker LuxembourgPrime Minister20 January 199516 years, 33 days
22.Denzil Douglas Saint Kitts and NevisPrime Minister7 July 199515 years, 230 days
23.Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson IcelandPresident1 August 199614 years, 205 days
24.Denis Sassou Nguesso Congo-BrazzavillePresident (was also President from February 8, 1979 to August 31, 1992)15 October 199713 years, 130 days
25.Mary McAleese IrelandPresident11 November 199713 years, 103 days
26.Pakalitha Mosisili LesothoPrime Minister29 May 199812 years, 269 days
27.Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi SamoaPrime Minister23 November 199812 years, 91 days
28.Hugo Chávez Frías VenezuelaPresident2 February 199912 years, 20 days
29.Apolo Nsibambi UgandaPrime Minister5 April 199911 years, 323 days
30.Abdelaziz Bouteflika AlgeriaPresident27 April 199911 years, 301 days
31.Ismail Omar Guelleh DjiboutiPresident8 May 199911 years, 290 days
32.Vladimir Putin RussiaPrime Minister, then President
Currently Prime Minister		9 August 199911 years, 197 days
33.Bharrat Jagdeo GuyanaPresident9 August 199911 years, 197 days
34.Sam Hinds GuyanaPrime Minister11 August 199911 years, 195 days
35.Sellapan Ramanathan Nathan SingaporePresident1 September 199911 years, 174 days
36.Mohamed Ghannouchi TunisiaPrime Minister17 November 199911 years, 97 days
37.Oqil Oqilov TajikistanPrime Minister20 December 199911 years, 64 days
38.Tarja Halonen FinlandPresident1 March 200010 years, 358 days
39.Bernard Makuza RwandaPrime Minister8 March 200010 years, 351 days
40.Paul Kagame RwandaPresident24 March 200010 years, 335 days
41.Abdoulaye Wade SenegalPresident1 April 200010 years, 327 days
42.Bashar al-Assad SyriaPresident17 July 200010 years, 220 days
43.Laurent Gbagbo Côte d'IvoirePresident (co-claimant from 4 December 2010)26 October 200010 years, 119 days
44.Joseph Kabila Congo-KinshasaPresident17 January 200110 years, 36 days
45.José Maria Neves Cape VerdePrime Minister1 February 200110 years, 21 days
46.Dileita Mohamed Dileita DjiboutiPrime Minister4 March 20019 years, 355 days
47.Pedro Pires Cape VerdePresident22 March 20019 years, 337 days
48.Ralph Gonsalves Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesPrime Minister29 March 20019 years, 330 days
49.Girma Wolde-Giorgis EthiopiaPresident8 October 20019 years, 137 days
50.Hamid Karzai AfghanistanPresident22 December 20019 years, 62 days

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