Top Ten Longest-Serving Current World Leaders
|
Monarch
|
Dictator
|
|
#
|
Leader
|
Country
|
Came to Power
|
Total years in power (2006)
|
current age
(2006) |
|
1
|
King Rama IX
|
Thailand
|
1946
|
59
|
78
|
|
2
|
Queen Elizabeth II
|
United Kingdom
|
1952
|
53
|
80
|
|
3
|
President Fidel Castro
|
Cuba
|
1959
|
46
|
80
|
|
4
|
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
|
Brunei
|
1967
|
38
|
60
|
|
5
|
President Omar Bongo
|
Gabon
|
1967
|
38
|
70
|
|
6
|
Colonel Momar Quaddafi
|
Libya
|
1969
|
36
|
64
|
|
7
|
Queen Margrethe II
|
Denmark
|
1972
|
33
|
64
|
|
8
|
King Carl Gustaf XVI
|
Sweden
|
1973
|
32
|
60
|
|
9
|
King Juan Carlos
|
Spain
|
1976
|
29
|
68
|
|
10
|
President Nguema Mbasogo
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
1979
|
27
|
64
|
Comparative Long-reigning World Leaders of the Past
|
Leader
|
Country
|
reign
|
Total years in power
|
Age at Death
|
|
Emperor Franz-Joseph
|
Austria-Hungary
|
1848 - 1916
|
67
|
86
|
|
Queen Victoria
|
United Kingdom
|
1837 - 1901
|
64
|
82
|
|
Emperor Hirohito
|
Japan
|
1926 - 1989
|
63
|
88
|
|
Prince Ranier II
|
Monaco
|
1949 - 2005
|
56
|
82
|
|
President Kim Il Sung
|
North Korea
|
1945 - 1994
|
49
|
82
|
|
King Victor Emanuel III
|
Italy
|
1900 - 1949
|
45
|
78
|
|
Emperor Haile Selassie
|
Ethiopia
|
1930 - 1974
|
44
|
83
|
|
King Tupou IV
|
Tonga
|
1965 - 2006
|
40
|
87
|
|
King Hassan II
|
Morocco
|
1961 - 1999
|
38
|
70
|
|
President Gnassingbe Eyadema
|
Togo
|
1967 - 2005
|
38
|
68
|
|
General Secretary Enver Hoxha
|
Albania
|
1948 - 1985
|
37
|
76
|
|
General Francisco Franco
|
Spain
|
1939 - 1975
|
36
|
83
|
|
President Alfredo Stroessner*
|
Paraguay
|
1954 - 1989
|
35
|
74
|
* did not die in office