List of current heads of state and government

"World leaders" redirects here. For the CIA-published public domain directory, see World Leaders.

This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems. Often a leader is both in presidential systems. Some states have semi-presidential systems, where the head of government role (i.e. executive branch) is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and head of state.

The list includes the names of recently elected or appointed heads who will take office on an appointed date.

Member and observer states of the United Nations

Legend:
  • Yellow highlighted cells indicate state leaders whose constitutionally interpreted positions (e.g. de jure) individually administer the governmental executive, legislature
  • Blue highlighted cells distinguish heads of state or party leaders chiefly regarded as exercising (e.g. de facto) further systemic influence, authority within their system of government
  • State Head of state Head of government
     Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani[lower-greek 1] Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah
     Albania President Bujar Nishani Prime Minister Edi Rama
     Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal
     Andorra Episcopal Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília
    Co-Prince's Representative Josep Maria Mauri
    French Co-Prince François Hollande[lower-greek 2]
    Co-Prince's Representative – Jean-Pierre Hugues
    Head of Government Antoni Martí
     Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos
     Antigua and Barbuda Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Rodney Williams
    Prime Minister Gaston Browne
     Argentina President Mauricio Macri
     Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan
     Australia Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Peter Cosgrove
    Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
     Austria Federal President Vacant
    Federal President-elect Alexander Van der Bellen
    Federal Chancellor Christian Kern
    Acting Federal Presidential college[lower-greek 4]
     Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
     Bahamas Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Dame Marguerite Pindling
    Prime Minister Perry Christie
     Bahrain King – Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prime Minister – Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
     Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
     Barbados Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Elliott Belgrave
    Prime Minister Freundel Stuart
     Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov
     Belgium King Philippe Prime Minister Charles Michel
     Belize Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Colville Young
    Prime Minister Dean Barrow
     Benin President Patrice Talon
     Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay
     Bolivia President Evo Morales
     Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative Valentin Inzko
    Presidency[lower-greek 5] Chairman of the Council of Ministers Denis Zvizdić
    Mladen Ivanić (as Chairman)
     Botswana President Ian Khama
     Brazil President Michel Temer[lower-greek 6]
     Brunei Sultan and Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah
     Bulgaria President Rosen Plevneliev
    President-elect Rumen Radev
    Prime Minister Boyko Borissov
     Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba
     Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
     Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister Hun Sen
     Cameroon President Paul Biya[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Philémon Yang
     Canada Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor General David Johnston
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
     Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva
     Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Simplice Sarandji
     Chad President Idriss Déby[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacké
     Chile President Michelle Bachelet
     China General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping
    President – Xi Jinping Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang
     Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos
     Comoros President Azali Assoumani
     Congo, Democratic Republic of the President Joseph Kabila Prime Minister Samy Badibanga
     Congo, Republic of the President Denis Sassou Nguesso[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Clément Mouamba
     Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solís
     Croatia President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Prime Minister Andrej Plenković
     Cuba First Secretary of the Communist Party Raúl Castro
    President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers – Raúl Castro
     Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades
     Czech Republic President Miloš Zeman Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
     Denmark Queen Margrethe II Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
     Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
     Dominica President Charles Savarin Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
     Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina
     East Timor President Taur Matan Ruak Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo
     Ecuador President Rafael Correa
     Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Prime Minister Sherif Ismail
     El Salvador President Salvador Sánchez Cerén
     Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Francisco Pascual Obama Asue
     Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki
     Estonia President Kersti Kaljulaid Prime Minister Jüri Ratas
     Ethiopia President Mulatu Teshome Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
     Fiji President George Konrote Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
     Finland President Sauli Niinistö Prime Minister Juha Sipilä
     France President François Hollande[lower-greek 2] Prime Minister Manuel Valls
     Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet
     Gambia, The President Yahya Jammeh
    President-elect Adama Barrow
     Georgia President Giorgi Margvelashvili Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili
     Germany President Joachim Gauck Chancellor Angela Merkel
     Ghana President John Dramani Mahama
     Greece President Prokopis Pavlopoulos Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
     Grenada Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Dame Cécile La Grenade
    Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
     Guatemala President Jimmy Morales
     Guinea President Alpha Condé[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Mamady Youla
     Guinea-Bissau President José Mário Vaz Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embaló
     Guyana President David A. Granger[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo
     Haiti Interim President Jocelerme Privert Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles
    President-elect Jovenel Moïse
     Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández
     Hungary President János Áder Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
     Iceland President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Prime Minister Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
    Prime minister-designate Birgitta Jónsdóttir
     India President Pranab Mukherjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi
     Indonesia President Joko Widodo
     Iran Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    President Hassan Rouhani
     Iraq President Fuad Masum Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi
     Ireland President Michael D. Higgins Taoiseach Enda Kenny
     Israel President Reuven Rivlin Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
     Italy President Sergio Mattarella Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
     Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan
     Jamaica Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Patrick Allen
    Prime Minister Andrew Holness
     Japan Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
     Jordan King Abdullah II Prime Minister Hani Al-Mulki
     Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
     Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta
     Kiribati President Taneti Mamau
     Kuwait Emir – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prime Minister – Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
     Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov
     Laos General Secretary of the Communist Party Bounnhang Vorachith
    President – Bounnhang Vorachith Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith
     Latvia President Raimonds Vējonis Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis
     Lebanon President Michel Aoun Prime Minister Tammam Salam
    Prime minister-designate Saad Hariri
     Lesotho King Letsie III Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
     Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
     Libya Chairman of the Presidential Council and Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj
     Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II Head of Government Adrian Hasler
    Regent – Hereditary Prince Alois
     Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius
    Prime minister-designate Saulius Skvernelis
     Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
     Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov Interim Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev
     Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina Prime Minister Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana
     Malawi President Peter Mutharika
     Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong – Tuanku Abdul Halim
    Yang di-Pertuan Agongelect Muhammad V
    Prime Minister Najib Razak
     Maldives President Abdulla Yameen
     Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Prime Minister Modibo Keita
     Malta President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
     Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine
     Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Prime Minister Yahya Ould Hademine
     Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib Prime Minister – Sir Anerood Jugnauth
     Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto
     Micronesia President Peter M. Christian
     Moldova President Nicolae Timofti
    President-elect Igor Dodon
    Prime Minister Pavel Filip
     Monaco Sovereign Prince Albert II Minister of State Serge Telle
     Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Prime Minister Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat
     Montenegro President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Duško Marković
     Morocco King Mohammed VI Head of Government Abdelilah Benkirane
     Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário
     Myanmar President Htin Kyaw[lower-greek 1] State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi
     Namibia President Hage Geingob[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa
     Nauru President Baron Waqa
       Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
     Netherlands King Willem-Alexander Prime Minister Mark Rutte
     New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Dame Patsy Reddy[lower-greek 7]
    Prime Minister John Key
     Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega
     Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou Prime Minister Brigi Rafini
     Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari
     North Korea Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un
    Supreme Leader and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission – Kim Jong-un[lower-greek 8]
    Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam[lower-greek 9]
    Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong-ju
     Norway King Harald V Prime Minister Erna Solberg
     Oman Sultan and Prime Minister Qaboos bin Said al Said
     Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
     Palau President Tommy Remengesau
     Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah
     Panama President Juan Carlos Varela
     Papua New Guinea Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Michael Ogio
    Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
     Paraguay President Horacio Cartes
     Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Fernando Zavala
     Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte
     Poland President Andrzej Duda Prime Minister Beata Szydło
     Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Prime Minister António Costa
     Qatar Emir – Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Prime Minister – Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani
     Romania President Klaus Iohannis Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș
     Russia President Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
     Rwanda President Paul Kagame[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi
     Saint Kitts and Nevis Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Tapley Seaton
    Prime Minister Timothy Harris
     Saint Lucia Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Dame Pearlette Louisy
    Prime Minister Allen Chastanet
     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Frederick Ballantyne
    Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
     Samoa O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
     San Marino Captain Regent[lower-greek 10] Marino Riccardi
    Captain Regent Fabio Berardi
     São Tomé and Príncipe President Evaristo Carvalho Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada
     Saudi Arabia King and Prime Minister Salman
     Senegal President Macky Sall Prime Minister Mohammed Dionne
     Serbia President Tomislav Nikolić Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić
     Seychelles President Danny Faure
     Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma
     Singapore President Tony Tan Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
     Slovakia President Andrej Kiska Prime Minister Robert Fico
     Slovenia President Borut Pahor Prime Minister Miro Cerar
     Solomon Islands Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Frank Kabui
    Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare
     Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
     South Africa President Jacob Zuma
     South Korea President Park Geun-hye[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn
     South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit
     Spain King Felipe VI President of the Government Mariano Rajoy
     Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
     Sudan President Omar al-Bashir
     Suriname President Dési Bouterse
     Swaziland King Mswati III Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
     Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf Prime Minister Stefan Löfven
      Switzerland
    Johann Schneider-Ammann (as President)
     Syria President Bashar al-Assad Prime Minister Imad Khamis
     Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda
     Tanzania President John Magufuli[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa
     Thailand King – Maha Vajiralongkorn Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha
     Togo President Faure Gnassingbé[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Komi Sélom Klassou
     Tonga King Tupou VI Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva
     Trinidad and Tobago President Anthony Carmona Prime Minister Keith Rowley
     Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi Head of Government Youssef Chahed
     Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[lower-greek 12] Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım
     Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
     Tuvalu Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Sir Iakoba Italeli
    Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga
     Uganda President Yoweri Museveni[lower-greek 1] Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda
     Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
     United Arab Emirates President – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Prime Minister – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
     United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3] Prime Minister Theresa May
     United States President Barack Obama
    President-elect Donald Trump
     Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez
     Uzbekistan Interim President[lower-greek 1] and Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev
    President-elect – Shavkat Mirziyoyev
     Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale Prime Minister Charlot Salwai
      Vatican City Sovereign Pope Francis President of the Governorate – Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello
     Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro
     Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyễn Phú Trọng
    President Trần Đại Quang Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
     Yemen President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr
     Zambia President Edgar Lungu
     Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe

    Other states

    The following states control their territory and are recognised by at least one UN member state.

    State Head of state Head of government
     Abkhazia President Raul Khajimba Prime Minister Beslan Bartsits
     Cook Islands[lower-greek 13] Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Queen's Representative Tom Marsters
    Prime Minister Henry Puna
     Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi Prime Minister Isa Mustafa
     Niue[lower-greek 13] Queen Elizabeth II[lower-greek 3]
    Governor-General – Dame Patsy Reddy[lower-greek 7]
    Premier Toke Talagi
     Northern Cyprus President Mustafa Akıncı Prime Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün
     Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic General Secretary of the Polisario Front Brahim Ghali
    President – Brahim Ghali Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar
     South Ossetia President Leonid Tibilov Prime Minister Domenty Kulumbegov
     Taiwan (Republic of China) President Tsai Ing-wen President of the Executive Yuan Lin Chuan

    The following states/governments control their territory, but are not recognised by any UN member states.

    State/Government Also claimed by Head of state Head of government
     Nagorno-Karabakh  Azerbaijan President Bako Sahakyan Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan
     Somaliland  Somalia President Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo
     Transnistria  Moldova President Yevgeny Shevchuk Prime Minister Pavel Prokudin

    Other governments

    These alternative governments are recognised as a sovereign state by at least one UN member.

    Government Also claimed by Head of state Head of government
     House of Representatives  Libya President of the HoR Aguila Saleh Issa Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani
     Supreme Political Council  Yemen President of the SPC Saleh Ali al-Sammad Prime Minister Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour
    Syrian opposition Syrian Interim Government  Syria President Anas al-Abdah Prime Minister – Jawad Abu Hatab

    See also

    Notes

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 In this state, the president is both head of state and government; the office of prime minister may exist in these states, but it does not direct executive power (neither does the Afghan Chief Executive Officer, nor the Burmese State Counsellor, either).
    2. 1 2 The President of France and the French Co-Prince of Andorra are positions held by the same person.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Constitutionally, Elizabeth is separately and equally monarch of 16 sovereign states (alongside the United Kingdom) known collectively as the Commonwealth realms. In each of these states, with the exception of the UK (where she permanently resides) she is duly represented at the national level by a governor-general.
    4. The acting three-member Austrian Federal Presidential college (made up of the three Presidents of the National Council) is a collective and temporary head of state.
    5. The three-member Bosnian presidency is the head of state collectively.
    6. Temer assumed the Brazilian presidential powers and duties during the course of the suspension of Dilma Rousseff on 12 May. Temer assumed the presidency outright when Rousseff was impeached on 31 August.
    7. 1 2 The Governor-General of New Zealand and the Governor-General of Niue are positions held by the same person.
    8. The term "Supreme Leader" is used as a description (for the sake of brevity) rather than being an official title of a single office. The three actual offices held by Kim are:
      1. Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea
      2. Chairman of the State Affairs Commission
      3. Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army
    9. The President (otherwise known as Chairman) of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly accepts the credentials of foreign ambassadors, signs treaties, receives visiting heads of state, and represents North Korea on all state visits (ceremonial functions usually performed by heads of state in other states). The president has held these duties since 1998, when the constitution was revised.
    10. Since 2012, the Grand and General Council of San Marino has held a larger proportion of seats for the Christian Democratic Party than those for the Popular Alliance; it can thus be inferred that the partner belonging to the former party exercises wider legislative capabilities than the latter through its parliamentary superiority, outnumbering the latter party over 4,000 seats.
    11. The seven-member Swiss Federal Council is head of state and government collectively. As a party to the Council, the president serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.
    12. In theory, Erdoğan is barred from wielding political power (with the head of state constitutionally and legislatively bound to act within ceremonial capacity). Despite these legal constraints, Erdoğan has sought to preserve his persona as the paramount strongman of Turkish politics, and is widely perceived by both the Turkish public and media in general as in practice the paramount leader of Turkey itself (notwithstanding his resignation as prime minister and election to the Turkish presidency). Moreover, considering the unconstitutional nature of these circumstances, constitutional experts have frequently referred to his persistent partisan leverage favouring the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the ruling party he founded and hitherto led, as the extended root of his political capital.
    13. 1 2 States in free association with New Zealand.

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