List of current presidents

The is a list of presidential positions, and the current office holders:

States recognised by the United Nations

Country President Since
 Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani 29 September 2014
 Albania President Bujar Nishani 24 July 2012
 Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika 27 April 1999
 Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos 21 September 1979
 Argentina President Mauricio Macri 10 December 2015
 Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan 9 April 2008
 Austria Federal President Heinz Fischer 8 July 2004
 Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev 31 October 2003
 Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid 20 March 2013
 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko 20 July 1994
 Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi 6 April 2006
 Bolivia President Evo Morales 22 January 2006
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairman Dragan Čović 17 July 2015
 Botswana President Ian Khama 1 April 2008
 Brazil President Michel Temer 31 August 2016
 Bulgaria President Rosen Plevneliev 22 January 2012
 Burkina Faso Acting President Michel Kafando 18 November 2014
 Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza 26 August 2005
 Cameroon President Paul Biya 6 November 1982
 Cape Verde President Jorge Carlos Fonseca 9 September 2011
 Central African Republic Acting President Catherine Samba-Panza 23 January 2014
 Chad President Idriss Déby 2 December 1990
 Chile President Michelle Bachelet 11 May 2014
 China President Xi Jinping 14 March 2013
 Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos 7 August 2010
 Comoros President Ikililou Dhoinine 26 May 2011
 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the President Joseph Kabila 17 January 2001
 Congo, Republic of the President Denis Sassou Nguesso 25 October 1997
 Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solís 8 May 2014
 Croatia President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović 19 February 2015
 Cuba President Raúl Castro 24 February 2008
 Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades 28 February 2013
 Czech Republic President Miloš Zeman 8 March 2013
 Dominica President Charles Savarin 2 October 2013
 Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina 16 August 2012
 East Timor President Taur Matan Ruak 20 May 2012
 Ecuador President Rafael Correa 15 January 2007
 Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 8 June 2014
 El Salvador President Salvador Sánchez Cerén 1 June 2014
 Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 3 August 1979
 Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki 27 April 1991
 Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves 9 October 2006
 Ethiopia President Mulatu Teshome 7 October 2013
 Fiji President George Konrote 12 November 2015
 Finland President Sauli Niinistö 1 March 2012
 France President François Hollande 15 May 2012
 Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba 16 October 2009
 Gambia President Yahya Jammeh 22 July 1994
 Georgia President Giorgi Margvelashvili 17 November 2013
 Germany Federal President Joachim Gauck 18 March 2012
 Ghana President John Dramani Mahama 24 July 2012
 Greece President Prokopis Pavlopoulos 13 March 2015
 Guatemala President Jimmy Morales 14 January 2016
 Guinea Acting President Alpha Condé 21 December 2010
 Guinea-Bissau Acting President José Mário Vaz 23 June 2014
 Guyana President David Granger 16 May 2015
 Haiti President Michel Martelly 14 May 2011
 Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández 10 May 2012
 Hungary President János Áder 27 January 2014
 Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson 1 August 1996
 India President Pranab Mukherjee 25 July 2012
 Indonesia President Joko Widodo 20 October 2014
 Iran President Hassan Rouhani 3 August 2013
 Iraq President Fuad Masum 24 July 2014
 Ireland President Michael D. Higgins 11 November 2011
 Israel President Reuven Rivlin 24 July 2014
 Italy President Sergio Mattarella 3 February 2015
 Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara 4 December 2010
 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev 16 December 1991
 Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta 9 April 2013
 Kiribati President Anote Tong 10 July 2003
 Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev 1 December 2011
 Laos President Choummaly Sayasone 21 March 2006
 Latvia President Raimonds Vējonis 8 July 2015
 Lebanon Acting President Tammam Salam 25 May 2014
 Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 18 January 2006
 Libya Chairman Aguila Saleh Issa 5 August 2014
 Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė 12 July 2009
 Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov 12 May 2009
 Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina 25 January 2014
 Malawi President Peter Mutharika 31 May 2014
 Maldives President Abdulla Yameen 17 November 2013
 Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 4 September 2013
 Malta President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca 4 April 2014
 Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak 10 January 2012
 Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz 5 August 2009
 Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib 5 July 2015
 Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto 1 December 2012
 Federated States of Micronesia President Peter M. Christian 11 May 2015
 Moldova President Nicolae Timofti 23 March 2012
 Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj 18 June 2009
 Montenegro President Filip Vujanović 22 May 2003
 Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi 15 January 2015
 Myanmar President Htin Kyaw 30 March 2011
 Namibia President Hage Geingob 21 March 2015
 Nauru President Baron Waqa 11 June 2013
   Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav 23 July 2008
 Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega 10 January 2007
 Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou 7 April 2011
 Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari 29 May 2015
 North Korea President
 Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain 9 September 2013
 Palau President Tommy Remengesau 17 January 2013
 Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas 8 May 2005
 Panama President Juan Carlos Varela 1 July 2014
 Paraguay President Horacio Cartes 15 August 2013
 Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 28 July 2016
 Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte 30 June 2016
 Poland President Andrzej Duda 6 August 2015
 Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 9 March 2016
 Romania President Klaus Iohannis 21 December 2014
 Russia President Vladimir Putin 7 May 2012
 Rwanda President Paul Kagame 24 March 2000
 San Marino Captain Regent Lorella Stefanelli
Nicola Renzi 		1 October 2015
 São Tomé and Príncipe President Manuel Pinto da Costa 3 September 2011
 Senegal President Macky Sall 2 April 2012
 Serbia President Tomislav Nikolić 31 May 2012
 Seychelles President James Michel 16 April 2004
 Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma 17 September 2007
 Singapore President Tony Tan 1 September 2011
 Slovakia President Andrej Kiska 15 June 2014
 Slovenia President Borut Pahor 22 December 2012
 Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 16 September 2012
 South Africa President Jacob Zuma 9 May 2009
 South Korea President Park Geun-hye 25 February 2013
 South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit 9 July 2011
 Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena 9 January 2015
 Sudan President Omar al-Bashir 30 June 1989
 Suriname President Dési Bouterse 12 August 2010
  Switzerland President Johann Schneider-Ammann 1 January 2016
 Syria President Bashar al-Assad 17 July 2000
 Tajikistan President Emomalii Rahmon 19 November 1992
 Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete 21 December 2005
 Togo President Faure Gnassingbé 4 May 2005
 Trinidad and Tobago President Anthony Carmona 18 March 2013
 Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi 31 December 2014
 Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 28 August 2014
 Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow 21 December 2006
 Uganda President Yoweri Museveni 29 January 1986
 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko 7 June 2014
 United States President Barack Obama 20 January 2009
 Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez 1 March 2015
 Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov 1 September 1991
 Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale 22 September 2014
 Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro 19 April 2013
 Vietnam President Trần Đại Quang 2 April 2016
 Yemen President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi 27 February 2012
 Zambia President Edgar Lungu 25 January 2015
 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe 22 December 1987

States recognised by some United Nations member states

Country President Since
 Abkhazia President Raul Khadjimba 25 September 2014
 Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi 7 April 2016
 Northern Cyprus President Mustafa Akıncı 30 April 2015
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic President Mohamed Abdelaziz 30 August 1976
 South Ossetia President Leonid Tibilov 19 April 2012
 Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen 20 May 2016

States recognised by no United Nations member states

Country President Since
 Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan 7 September 2007
 Somaliland President Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo 27 July 2011
 Transnistria President Yevgeny Shevchuk 30 December 2011

Alternative governments of states recognised by the United Nations

Country Vice President Since
Syrian opposition National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces / Syrian Interim Government Vice President Anas al-Abdah

See also

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