New! Longest Ruling National Leaders 1939 - 2024 

A lot of questions, I have to address Vladimir Putin's case here. 1. He was the acting president in 1999 before being elected in 2000. 2. The counting methodology is as follows: serving at least one day during any calendar year is counted as one year. 3. The ruling leader is the highest-ranked political figure in a country as mandated by the constitution or, in practice, the most powerful person in the state, regardless of official title (e.g., the Putin-Medvedev terms).

Why do the years count down when they are out of power? Doesn't make sense to me.

Could you reuploaded it without dropping to make the comparation?

Methodology: Each year counts if a person held power for at least one calendar day during that year. The ruling leader is the highest-ranked political figure in a country as mandated by the constitution or, in practice, the most powerful person in the state, regardless of official title (e.g., the Putin-Medvedev case). Royal monarchies with absolute power are not included. Bar Colors: Western countries (Blue), African countries (Black), Asian countries (Yellow), Latin American countries (Green), Soviet Union and its former republics (Red).

António Oliveira de Salazar, of Portugal, is missing from this list. He was the de-facto ruler between 1932 and 1968, during the portuguese dictatorship period.

Where is Salazar?

You have reached the limit of this visualization format. It makes no sense for the years to decrease and there is no way to compare the total length of service if they drop off the chart the second they lose power or die.

What about Haile Selassie?

Antonio Salazar ran Portugal for 38 years, why was he excluded?

What abt the queen of england

Where is Urho Kekkonen, the president of finland. He was president from 1956 to 1982 and is nowhere to be seen here?.

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There is a mistake. Franco and De Gaulle have the same picture

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Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea probably should be on this list. Current president and in office since 1979.

Thanks for the video. But it looks like you posted the wrong photo for Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore), what appears is a photo of Suharto (Indonesia).

Interesting thought that the U.S. never made the list after Roosevelt because term limits were imposed.

Could you also include pictutes of flags instead or along with the country name ?

Which screen recorder are used for this video plz reply??

Excellent video !

That's great. What program is this graphic made of? I'd appreciate it if you could tell me.

You missed Tage Erlander, prime minister of Sweden from 1946 to1969 (23 years and 3 days)

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Queen Elizabeth II at #1 from 1995 with 43 year reign - 11 years longer than any other leader at the time. Remained #1 for 28 years.

Cool those one! 😊

Lee Kuan Yew's photo is Suharto's... Impressive data though! Cool video.

Who put running watch?

Imagine do you went back to like the 1500s lol. Also surprised Truman didn’t make it in.

What about Tage Erlander? He was the head of government in Sweden for 23 years, the longest uninterrupted rule of any democratically elected person in history

Castro - 47 years Putin - keep my beer Я надеюсь, что нет

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Your channel monitized?

Curious why Queen Elizabeth II didn't count at all, as she was head of state of the UK from 1952 till 2022!

MacKenzie-King of Canada was PM for 26 years or so, ending in 1951 Strange omission.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew pic appears to be Suharto and they are the same pic.

Where is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the current president of Equatorial Guinea after 44 years ?

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why you put suharto's photo in lee kuan yew's? lol

Are Lee Kuan Yew and Suharto twins?

Renewable energy data ?

Why Franco and Charles de Gaulle have the same photo? I think the Franco's one is incorrect

Where is Urho Kekkonen? He was the President of Finland for 26 years. (1956-1982)

Robert menzies wasnt orime minister of Australia for 20+ years consecutively, he was PM from 39-41 then bailed because of the war so John Curtin took over and saved Australia, thrn menzies returned in 1949 until 1966

Scary, that years tend to increase, isn't it?

You have some mistakes in this video. Formaly (officialy) Putin is a president of russia just about 20 year (2000 - 2008, 2012 - 2024) = 20 years. Cause Medvedev was a president one time. But I understand, that it's just only officialy. In fact Putin is a head of russia still about 24 years (but anyway, not 26, like in video)

Some people annoyed why it years decrease, idk i liked this way instead of disappearing

Queen Elizabeth II. She was head of state for 70 years.

Where is Teodoro Obiang Nguema?

Its a BIT on the nose black bars are used for African leaders and yellow bars for Asian leaders.

You forgot Hun Sen of Cambodia, 30 plus years. He finally resigned and had his son continued the reign.

How can the time of serving diminish? In 1953, Stalin’s time is 32 years at first, then less ang gone. It stopped increasing, of course, but it could not be decreasing, right? So, in, say, 1956, Stalin should be still the first, with Trujillo (27 years) being the second.

Not sure why those at the top dissappear once they're out of power. They still need to rank.

What about the King "Mohamed VI" of Morocco? He is now on his 25 year.

Holding on to power, for that long is just toxic it seems.

Stroessner? 35 years as a dictator in Paraguay

“Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed regularly and for the same reason” - Mark Twain.

What a lovely long list of ruthless dictators

Why did you forget Zahir Shah, the King of Afghanistan?

Tage Erlander became pm of sweden in 1946 and was reelected to 1969 so he should hace been present after 1960.

I'd love to see the overall longest-serving leaders over time

Bourguiba?

Nice world record.

Where Sultan qaboos said king of oman

It'd be more useful if you color-coded them by political system rather than continent (ie: Fascism, Communism, Monarchy, Democracy, etc)

daniel ortega is from 1979 till today

disgusting how the number of years decreases as the leader get outsted out of power: you should how the maximum number of years...

Salazar was in power for almost 40 years

Fidel Castro was the most powerful person in the state since 1959. While he was Prime Minister (1959-1976), the presidents only had nominal power. This video appears to be counting Fidel Castro's tenure starting from 1964 for some reason.

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The Queen Elizabeth ii ??

Sultan Qaboos bin Said Euler Sultanate of Oman from 1970 till 2020, check Wikipedia.

Kekkonen ruled Finland for 25 years

Excellent content as usual!

Where is Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela ??/

That is not Churchill

Where is British Queen? Where is Angela Merkel? Where is family's Clinton and Bush? And 2008-2012 president Russia Dmitry Medvedev, no Putin.

Notice how it's all the "best" places that have these long running leaders. 🤣😭 And some people want this sort of strong man. If you're of that stripe, want to be dictated, this is like a travel brochure.

All the people saying Queen Elizabeth just shows no one remembers anything from school lol

Franco single handedly keeping facsism alive by sheer will alone😂

Aw yuck bud, AI-generated thumbnails? You're better than using stolen art mate

Queen Elisabeth II ?

No one is forever in the end

I think you used Xi jinping's image for Marcos. Haha crazy foreshadowing I guess 😂

Trujillo bajó como una pedrá` XD

hitler came into power in 1933 as Chancellor, which would be 7 years in 1940, not 8 :)

They hoed Salazar Portuguese prime minister. Give that man his 36 and stop playing.

This was a weird way to do it. I would have just put a list of the longest serving, and year by year increase the bar, and reorder it as it goes.

Queen Elizabeth left the chat (ik shes dead tho)

Proud to be Pinoy. Char!

King fahad he is king from 1982 to 2005 he is king Saudi Arabia

Quite a rogues gallery😂

Pretty sure that isn't Churchill?

We all know he disqualified our girl Elizabeth so others could have at least a shred of a chance😂

Where Queen Elizbeth II?

The longest ruling dictators*

Dictators think they will live forever. Although many of these people were just in government for a long time, not dictators. Bibi for example