Sub-Saharan Africa’s Longest-Serving Leaders

Leaders by time in office, excluding monarchs, 1960–2025

Chart of sub-Saharan Africa’s longest-serving leaders showing a full bar from 1960 to 2025 with the time the leader is in office colored blue. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea has served the longest 46 years and is still in office.