World leaders in 1992

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 1992, in the order they held them. Names are from Wikipedia’s list of state leaders and appear only where the person’s Wikidata record agrees on the post and the years. What happened in 1992 →

Major powers in 1992

United StatesUnited States history

President: George H. W. Bush

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Major

RussiaRussia history

President: Boris Yeltsin
Prime minister: Boris Yeltsin, then Viktor Chernomyrdin

People's Republic of ChinaChina history

General Secretary; Paramount Leader: Jiang Zemin
President: Yang Shangkun
Premier: Li Peng

FranceFrance history

President: François Mitterrand
Prime minister: Édith Cresson, then Pierre Bérégovoy

Federal Republic of GermanyGermany history

President of reunified Germany: Richard von Weizsäcker
Chancellor of reunified Germany: Helmut Kohl

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Kiichi Miyazawa

Republic of IndiaIndia history

President: R. Venkataraman, then Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime minister: P. V. Narasimha Rao

Africa

Arab Republic of EgyptEgypt history

President: Hosni Mubarak
Prime minister: Atef Sedky

Central African Republic

President: André Kolingba
Prime minister: Édouard Frank, then Timothée Malendoma

Democratic Republic of MadagascarMadagascar history

President of Supreme Revolutionary Council: Didier Ratsiraka
Prime minister: Guy Razanamasy

Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe

President: Miguel Trovoada
Prime minister: Daniel Daio, then Norberto Costa Alegre

Equatorial Guinea

President: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Prime minister: Cristino Seriche Bioko, then Silvestre Siale Bileka

Federal Republic of Nigeria: Fourth RepublicNigeria history

Military Head of State: Ibrahim Babangida

GabonGabon history

President: Omar Bongo
Prime minister: Casimir Oyé-Mba

Guinea-Bissau

President: João Bernardo Vieira
Prime minister: Carlos Correia

Interim Government of SomaliaSomalia history

President: Ali Mahdi Muhammad
Prime minister: Umar Arteh Ghalib

Islamic Republic of MauritaniaMauritania history

Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation; President: Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Prime minister: Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya

KenyaKenya history

President: Daniel arap Moi

Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland)

King: Mswati III
Prime minister: Obed Dlamini

Kingdom of LesothoLesotho history

King: Letsie III

LiberiaLiberia history

President of the Interim Government of National Unity: Amos Sawyer

Libyan Arab Republic / Socialist People's Libyan Arab JamahiriyaLibya history

Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution: Muammar Gaddafi
Secretary-General: Abdul Razzaq as-Sawsa, then Muhammad az-Zanati
Prime minister: Abuzed Omar Dorda

Mauritius (Commonwealth realm)Mauritius history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Anerood Jugnauth

NamibiaNamibia history

President: Sam Nujoma
Prime minister: Hage Geingob

People's Democratic Republic of AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Chadli Bendjedid, then Ali Kafi
Interim President: Abdelmalek Benhabyles
Chairman of the High Council: Mohamed Boudiaf
Prime minister: Sid Ahmed Ghozali, then Belaid Abdessalam

Republic of AngolaAngola history

President: José Eduardo dos Santos
Prime minister: Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, then Marcolino Moco

Republic of BeninBenin history

President: Nicéphore Soglo

Republic of BotswanaBotswana history

President: Quett Masire

Republic of Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history

President: Blaise Compaoré
Prime minister: Youssouf Ouédraogo

Republic of BurundiBurundi history

President: Pierre Buyoya
Prime minister: Adrien Sibomana

Republic of CameroonCameroon history

President: Paul Biya
Prime minister: Sadou Hayatou, then Simon Achidi Achu

Republic of Cape VerdeCape Verde history

President: António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Prime minister: Carlos Veiga

Republic of ChadChad history

President: Idriss Déby

Republic of DjiboutiDjibouti history

President: Hassan Gouled Aptidon
Prime minister: Barkat Gourad Hamadou

Republic of GhanaGhana history

Military Head of State: Jerry Rawlings

Republic of GuineaGuinea history

President: Lansana Conté

Republic of Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Prime minister: Alassane Ouattara

Republic of MalawiMalawi history

President: Hastings Banda

Republic of MaliMali history

Chairman of the Transitional Committee: Amadou Toumani Touré
President: Alpha Oumar Konaré
Acting Prime minister: Soumana Sacko
Prime minister: Younoussi Touré

Republic of MauritiusMauritius history

President: Veerasamy Ringadoo, then Cassam Uteem
Prime minister: Anerood Jugnauth

Republic of MozambiqueMozambique history

President: Joaquim Chissano
Prime minister: Mário da Graça Machungo

Republic of RwandaRwanda history

President: Juvénal Habyarimana
Prime minister: Sylvestre Nsanzimana, then Dismas Nsengiyaremye

Republic of SenegalSenegal history

President: Abdou Diouf
Prime minister: Habib Thiam

Republic of Seychelles

President: France-Albert René

Republic of Sierra LeoneSierra Leone history

President: Joseph Saidu Momoh
Military Head of State: Valentine Strasser

Republic of SomalilandSomalia history

President: Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur

Republic of South AfricaSouth Africa history

State President: F. W. de Klerk

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

President: Pascal Lissouba
Prime minister: Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra

Republic of the GambiaGambia history

President: Dawda Jawara

Republic of the NigerNiger history

Prime minister: Amadou Cheiffou

Republic of the SudanSudan history

President: Omar al-Bashir

Republic of TunisiaTunisia history

President: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Prime minister: Hamed Karoui

Republic of Uganda

President: Yoweri Museveni

Republic of ZambiaZambia history

President: Frederick Chiluba

Republic of Zimbabwe

President: Robert Mugabe

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, has limited recognition: Morocco claims Western SaharaMorocco history

President: Mohamed Abdelaziz

Sultanate/ Kingdom of MoroccoMorocco history

King: Hassan II
Prime minister: Azzeddine Laraki, then Mohammed Karim Lamrani

Togolese RepublicTogo history

President: Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Prime minister: Joseph Kokou Koffigoh

Transitional Government of EthiopiaEthiopia history

Acting President: Meles Zenawi

TranskeiSouth Africa history

Head of the Military Council: Bantu Holomisa

Union of the Comoros

President: Said Mohamed Djohar

United Republic of TanzaniaTanzania history

President: Ali Hassan Mwinyi
Prime minister: John Malecela

Zaire

President: Mobutu Sese Seko
Prime minister: Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond, then Étienne Tshisekedi

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Vere Bird

ArgentinaArgentina history

President: Carlos Menem

BarbadosBarbados history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Lloyd Erskine Sandiford

BelizeBelize history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: George Cadle Price

BoliviaBolivia history

President: Jaime Paz Zamora

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Brian Mulroney

Co-operative Republic of GuyanaGuyana history

President: Desmond Hoyte
Prime minister: Sam Hinds

ColombiaColombia history

President: César Gaviria Trujillo

Dominica

Prime minister: Eugenia Charles

EcuadorEcuador history

President: Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, then Sixto Durán Ballén

El SalvadorEl Salvador history

President: Alfredo Cristiani

Federative Republic of BrazilBrazil history

President: Fernando Collor de Mello, then Itamar Franco

Fourth Dominican RepublicDominican Republic history

President: Joaquín Balaguer

Grenada

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Nicholas Brathwaite

GuatemalaGuatemala history

President: Jorge Serrano Elías

HondurasHonduras history

President: Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero

JamaicaJamaica history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: P. J. Patterson

MexicoMexico history

President: Carlos Salinas de Gortari

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: Violeta Chamorro

Oriental Republic of UruguayUruguay history

President: Luis Alberto Lacalle

PanamaPanama history

President: Guillermo Endara

Republic of ChileChile history

President: Patricio Aylwin

Republic of Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Rafael Calderón Fournier

Republic of CubaCuba history

President of the Council of State: Fidel Castro
President of the Council of Ministers: Fidel Castro

Republic of PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Alberto Fujimori

Republic of SurinameSuriname history

President: Ronald Venetiaan

Republic of Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history

President: Noor Hassanali
Prime minister: Patrick Manning

Republic of VenezuelaVenezuela history

President: Carlos Andrés Pérez

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Kennedy Simmonds

Saint Lucia

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Compton

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: James Fitz-Allen Mitchell

The Bahamas

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Lynden Pindling, then Hubert Ingraham

Third Haitian RepublicHaiti history

Acting President: Marc Bazin
Prime minister: Jean-Jacques Honorat, then Marc Bazin

United StatesUnited States history

President: George H. W. Bush

Asia

Ba'athist IraqIraq history

President: Saddam Hussein
Prime minister: Mohammad Hamza al-Zubaidi

BangladeshBangladesh history

President: Abdur Rahman Biswas
Prime minister: Khaleda Zia

BhutanBhutan history

Druk Gyalpo: Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Democratic Republic of AfghanistanAfghanistan history

General Secretary: Mohammad Najibullah
President: Mohammad Najibullah
Acting President: Abdul Rahim Hatif
Prime minister: Fazal Haq Khaliqyar

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri LankaSri Lanka history

President: Ranasinghe Premadasa
Prime minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga

Emirate of Ras Al KhaimahUnited Arab Emirates history

ruler: Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi

Hakims of Bahrain/ State of BahrainBahrain history

Emir: Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Prime minister: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Islamic Republic of IranIran history

Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
President: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Islamic Republic of PakistanPakistan history

President: Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime minister: Nawaz Sharif

Islamic State of AfghanistanAfghanistan history

Acting President: Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
President: Burhanuddin Rabbani
Prime minister: Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani

IsraelIsrael history

President: Chaim Herzog
Prime minister: Yitzhak Shamir, then Yitzhak Rabin

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Kiichi Miyazawa

KazakhstanKazakhstan history

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime minister: Sergey Tereshchenko

Kingdom of JordanJordan history

King: Hussein
Prime minister: Zaid ibn Shaker

Kingdom of NepalNepal history

King: Birendra
Prime minister: Girija Prasad Koirala

Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: Fahd

Kyrgyzstan

President: Askar Akayev
Acting Prime minister: Andrei Iordan
Prime minister: Tursunbek Chyngyshev

Lao People's Democratic RepublicLaos history

Chairman: Kaysone Phomvihane, then Khamtai Siphandone
President: Kaysone Phomvihane, then Nouhak Phoumsavanh
Prime minister: Khamtai Siphandone

LebanonLebanon history

President: Elias Hrawi
Prime minister: Omar Karami, then Rachid Solh, then Rafic Hariri

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Azlan Shah of Perak
Prime minister: Mahathir Mohamad

MongoliaMongolia history

President: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Prime minister: Puntsagiin Jasrai

Mongolian People's Republic

President: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Prime minister: Dashiin Byambasüren

New Order, IndonesiaIndonesia history

President: Suharto

North KoreaNorth Korea history

General Secretary: Kim Il Sung
President: Kim Il Sung
Premier: Yon Hyong-muk

People's Republic of ChinaChina history

General Secretary; Paramount Leader: Jiang Zemin
President: Yang Shangkun
Premier: Li Peng

PhilippinesPhilippines history

President: Corazon Aquino, then Fidel V. Ramos

Protectorate of Brunei / Nation of BruneiBrunei history

Sultan: Hassanal Bolkiah

QatarQatar history

Emir: Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani
Prime minister: Khalifa bin Hamad

Republic of China: TaiwanTaiwan history

President: Lee Teng-hui
Premier: Hau Pei-tsun

Republic of CyprusCyprus history

President: George Vasiliou

Republic of IndiaIndia history

President: R. Venkataraman, then Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime minister: P. V. Narasimha Rao

Republic of TurkeyTurkey history

President: Turgut Özal
Prime minister: Süleyman Demirel

Republic of YemenYemen history

Prime minister: Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas

Second Republic of Maldives

President: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

SingaporeSingapore history

President: Wee Kim Wee
Prime minister: Goh Chok Tong

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976–present)Vietnam history

General Secretary: Đỗ Mười
Chairmen of the Council of State: Võ Chí Công
President: Lê Đức Anh
Chairmen of the Council of ministers; Prime minister: Võ Văn Kiệt

South KoreaSouth Korea history

President: Roh Tae-woo
Prime minister: Hyun Soong-jong

State of CambodiaCambodia history

Prime minister: Hun Sen

State of KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Jaber III
Prime minister: Saad Al-Abdullah

Sultanate of Oman: Al Busaidi dynastyOman history

Sultan: Qaboos bin Said

Syrian Arab RepublicSyria history

President: Hafez al-Assad
Prime minister: Mahmoud Zuabi

TajikistanTajikistan history

Acting President: Akbarsho Iskandarov
President: Rahmon Nabiyev

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime minister: Anand Panyarachun, then Suchinda Kraprayoon, then Chuan Leekpai
Acting Prime minister: Meechai Ruchuphan

Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusCyprus history

President: Rauf Denktaş

Turkmenistan

President: Saparmurat Niyazov

Union of Burma/Myanmar

Chairmen: Saw Maung, then Than Shwe
Prime minister: Saw Maung, then Than Shwe

United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates history

President: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Prime minister: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum

UzbekistanUzbekistan history

President: Islam Karimov
Prime minister: Abdulhashim Mutalov

Europe

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Joan Martí i Alanis
French Co-Prince: François Mitterrand
Prime minister: Òscar Ribas Reig

ArmeniaArmenia history

President: Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Prime minister: Khosrov Harutyunyan

AustriaAustria history

President: Kurt Waldheim, then Thomas Klestil
Chancellor: Franz Vranitzky

AzerbaijanAzerbaijan history

President: Ayaz Mutallibov, then Abulfaz Elchibey
Acting President: Yagub Mammadov, then Isa Gambar
Prime minister: Hasan Hasanov
Acting Prime minister: Firuz Mustafayev

BelgiumBelgium history

King: Baudouin
Prime minister: Wilfried Martens, then Jean-Luc Dehaene

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

President: Dzhokhar Dudayev

Czech and Slovak Federative Republic

President: Václav Havel
Prime minister: Marián Čalfa, then Jan Stráský

Czech Republic

Prime minister: Václav Klaus

DenmarkDenmark history

Queen: Margrethe II
Prime minister: Poul Schlüter

Federal Republic of GermanyGermany history

President of reunified Germany: Richard von Weizsäcker
Chancellor of reunified Germany: Helmut Kohl

FinlandFinland history

President: Mauno Koivisto
Prime minister: Esko Aho

France: Fifth RepublicFrance history

President: François Mitterrand
Prime minister: Édith Cresson, then Pierre Bérégovoy

GeorgiaGeorgia history

President: Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Prime minister: Besarion Gugushvili, then Tengiz Sigua

Greece: Third RepublicGreece history

President: Konstantinos Karamanlis
Prime minister: Konstantinos Mitsotakis

Hungary: Third RepublicHungary history

President: Árpád Göncz
Prime minister: József Antall

IcelandIceland history

President: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Prime minister: Davíð Oddsson

ItalyItaly history

President: Francesco Cossiga, then Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Prime minister: Giulio Andreotti, then Giuliano Amato

Kingdom of SpainSpain history

King: Juan Carlos I
Prime minister: Felipe González

Kingdom of the NetherlandsNetherlands history

Queen: Beatrix
Prime minister: Ruud Lubbers

Liechtenstein

Prince: Hans-Adam II
Prime minister: Hans Brunhart

LuxembourgLuxembourg history

Grand Duke: Jean
Prime minister: Jacques Santer

Monaco

Prince: Rainier III
Minister of state: Jacques Dupont

NorwayNorway history

King: Harald V
Prime minister: Gro Harlem Brundtland

Republic of AlbaniaAlbania history

President: Ramiz Alia, then Berisha
Acting President: Kastriot Islami, then Arbnori

Republic of ArtsakhAzerbaijan history

Chairmen of the Supreme Council: Artur Mkrtchyan
Acting Chairmen of the Supreme Council: Georgi Petrosian
President of the National Assembly: Leonard Petrosyan, then Artur Mkrtchyan
Acting President of the National Assembly: Georgi Petrosian

Republic of BelarusBelarus history

Chairman of the Supreme Soviet: Stanislau Shushkevich
Prime minister: Vyacheslav Kebich

Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

President: Alija Izetbegović
Prime minister: Jure Pelivan

Republic of BulgariaBulgaria history

Chairman; President: Zhelyu Zhelev
Prime minister: Philip Dimitrov, then Lyuben Berov

Republic of Croatia

Prime minister: Franjo Gregurić, then Hrvoje Šarinić

Republic of EstoniaEstonia history

President: Lennart Meri
Acting Prime minister: Edgar Savisaar, then Tiit Vähi
Prime minister: Mart Laar

Republic of IrelandIreland history

President: Mary Robinson
Taoiseach: Charles Haughey, then Albert Reynolds

Republic of KosovaKosovo history

President: Ibrahim Rugova
Prime minister: Bujar Bukoshi

Republic of LatviaLatvia history

Prime minister: Ivars Godmanis

Republic of LithuaniaLithuania history

Prime minister: Gediminas Vagnorius, then Aleksandras Abišala, then Bronislovas Lubys

Republic of Macedonia

President: Kiro Gligorov
Prime minister: Nikola Kljusev

Republic of MaltaMalta history

President: Ċensu Tabone
Prime minister: Eddie Fenech Adami

Republic of MoldovaMoldova history

President: Mircea Snegur
Prime minister: Valeriu Muravschi, then Andrei Sangheli

Republic of PolandPoland history

President: Lech Wałęsa
Prime minister: Jan Olszewski, then Waldemar Pawlak, then Hanna Suchocka

Republic of RomaniaRomania history

President: Ion Iliescu
Prime minister: Theodor Stolojan, then Nicolae Văcăroiu

RussiaRussia history

President: Boris Yeltsin
Prime minister: Boris Yeltsin, then Viktor Chernomyrdin

San Marino

Captains Regent: Edda Ceccoli, then Marino Riccardi, then Ernesto Benedettini, then Romeo Morri

Slovenia

President: Milan Kučan
Prime minister: Lojze Peterle, then Janez Drnovšek

South Ossetia, has limited recognition: Georgia claims South OssetiaGeorgia history

Head of state: Znaur Gassiev

SwedenSweden history

King: Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister: Carl Bildt

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: René Felber

Third Republic of PortugalPortugal history

President: Mário Soares
Prime minister: Aníbal Cavaco Silva

UkraineUkraine history

President: Leonid Kravchuk
Prime minister: Vitold Fokin, then Leonid Kuchma
Acting Prime minister: Valentyn Symonenko

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Major

Vatican City

Sovereign: John Paul II
President of the Governorate: Rosalio José Castillo Lara

Yugoslavia: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro

President: Dobrica Ćosić
Prime minister: Milan Panić

Yugoslavia: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Acting President of the Presidency: Branko Kostić

Oceania

AustraliaAustralia history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Paul Keating

Federated States of Micronesia

President: Bailey Olter

Kiribati

President: Teatao Teannaki

Marshall Islands

President: Amata Kabua

Nauru

President: Bernard Dowiyogo

New ZealandNew Zealand history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Jim Bolger

Palau

President: Ngiratkel Etpison

Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea history

Queen: Elizabeth II

Republic of FijiFiji history

President: Penaia Ganilau
Prime minister: Kamisese Mara, then Sitiveni Rabuka

Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Solomon Mamaloni

TongaTonga history

King: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
Prime minister: Baron Vaea

Tuvalu

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Bikenibeu Paeniu

VanuatuVanuatu history

Prime minister: Maxime Carlot Korman

Wallis and Futuna

King: Tomasi Kulimoetoke II

Western Samoa/ Independent State of Samoa

O le Ao o le Malo: Malietoa Tanumafili II
Prime minister: Tofilau Eti Alesana