World leaders in 2000

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 2000, 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 2000 →

Major powers in 2000

United StatesUnited States history

President: Bill Clinton

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Tony Blair

RussiaRussia history

Acting President: Vladimir Putin
Prime minister: Vladimir Putin, then Mikhail Kasyanov

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Jiang Zemin
President: Jiang Zemin
Premier: Zhu Rongji

FranceFrance history

President: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Lionel Jospin

GermanyGermany history

President: Johannes Rau
Chancellor: Gerhard Schröder

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Keizō Obuchi, then Yoshirō Mori
Acting Prime minister: Mikio Aoki

IndiaIndia history

President: K. R. Narayanan
Prime minister: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Africa

AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Prime minister: Ahmed Benbitour, then Ali Benflis

AngolaAngola history

President: José Eduardo dos Santos

BeninBenin history

President: Mathieu Kérékou

BotswanaBotswana history

President: Festus Mogae

Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history

President: Blaise Compaoré
Prime minister: Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, then Paramanga Ernest Yonli

BurundiBurundi history

President: Pierre Buyoya

CameroonCameroon history

President: Paul Biya
Prime minister: Peter Mafany Musonge

Cape VerdeCape Verde history

President: António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Prime minister: Carlos Veiga, then Gualberto do Rosário

Central African Republic

President: Ange-Félix Patassé
Prime minister: Anicet-Georges Dologuélé

ChadChad history

President: Idriss Déby
Prime minister: Nagoum Yamassoum

Comoros

President: Azali Assoumani
Prime Minister: Bianrifi Tarmidi, then Hamada Madi

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)Democratic Republic of the Congo history

President: Laurent-Désiré Kabila

DjiboutiDjibouti history

President: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Prime minister: Barkat Gourad Hamadou

EgyptEgypt history

President: Hosni Mubarak
Prime minister: Atef Ebeid

Equatorial Guinea

President: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Prime minister: Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan

EritreaEritrea history

President: Isaias Afwerki

EthiopiaEthiopia history

President: Negasso Gidada
Prime minister: Meles Zenawi

GabonGabon history

President: Omar Bongo

GambiaGambia history

President: Yahya Jammeh

GhanaGhana history

President: Jerry Rawlings

GuineaGuinea history

President: Lansana Conté
Prime minister: Lamine Sidimé

Guinea-Bissau

Acting President: Malam Bacai Sanhá
President: Kumba Ialá
Prime minister: Francisco Fadul, then Caetano N'Tchama

Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Robert Guéï, then Laurent Gbagbo
Prime minister: Pascal Affi N'Guessan

KenyaKenya history

President: Daniel arap Moi

LesothoLesotho history

King: Letsie III
Prime minister: Pakalitha Mosisili

LiberiaLiberia history

President: Charles Taylor

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution: Muammar Gaddafi
Prime minister: Muhammad Ahmad al-Mangoush, then Imbarek Shamekh

Madagascar

President: Didier Ratsiraka
Prime minister: Tantely Andrianarivo

MalawiMalawi history

President: Bakili Muluzi

MaliMali history

President: Alpha Oumar Konaré
Prime minister: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, then Mandé Sidibé

MauritaniaMauritania history

President: Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Prime minister: Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna

MauritiusMauritius history

President: Cassam Uteem
Prime minister: Anerood Jugnauth

MoroccoMorocco history

King: Mohammed VI
Prime Minister: Abderrahmane Youssoufi

MozambiqueMozambique history

President: Joaquim Chissano
Prime minister: Pascoal Mocumbi

NamibiaNamibia history

President: Sam Nujoma
Prime minister: Hage Geingob

NigerNiger history

President: Mamadou Tandja
Prime minister: Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki, then Hama Amadou

Nigeria: Fourth RepublicNigeria history

President: Olusegun Obasanjo

Republic of Somaliland

President: Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)Republic of the Congo history

President: Denis Sassou Nguesso

RwandaRwanda history

President: Pasteur Bizimungu, then Paul Kagame
Prime minister: Pierre-Célestin Rwigema, then Bernard Makuza

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

President: Mohamed Abdelaziz
Prime Minister: Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun

São Tomé and Príncipe

President: Miguel Trovoada
Prime minister: Guilherme Posser da Costa

SenegalSenegal history

President: Abdou Diouf, then Abdoulaye Wade
Prime minister: Mamadou Lamine Loum, then Moustapha Niasse

Seychelles

President: France-Albert René

Sierra LeoneSierra Leone history

President: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

South AfricaSouth Africa history

President: Thabo Mbeki

SudanSudan history

President: Omar al-Bashir

SwazilandEswatini history

King: Mswati III
Prime minister: Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

TanzaniaTanzania history

President: Benjamin Mkapa
Prime minister: Frederick Sumaye

TogoTogo history

President: Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Prime minister: Eugène Koffi Adoboli, then Agbéyomé Kodjo

Transitional National Government of the Republic of Somalia

President: Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
Prime minister: Ali Khalif Galaydh

TunisiaTunisia history

President: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Prime minister: Mohamed Ghannouchi

Uganda

President: Yoweri Museveni
Prime minister: Apolo Nsibambi

ZambiaZambia history

President: Frederick Chiluba

Zimbabwe

President: Robert Mugabe

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Lester Bird

ArgentinaArgentina history

President: Fernando de la Rúa

BahamasBahamas history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Hubert Ingraham

BarbadosBarbados history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Owen Arthur

BelizeBelize history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Said Musa

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

President: Hugo Chávez

BoliviaBolivia history

President: Hugo Banzer

BrazilBrazil history

President: Fernando Henrique Cardoso

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Jean Chrétien

ChileChile history

President: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, then Ricardo Lagos

ColombiaColombia history

President: Andrés Pastrana Arango

Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Miguel Rodríguez Echeverría

CubaCuba history

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

Dominica

President: Vernon Shaw
Prime minister: Pierre Charles

Dominican RepublicDominican Republic history

President: Leonel Fernández, then Hipólito Mejía

EcuadorEcuador history

President: Jamil Mahuad, then Gustavo Noboa

El SalvadorEl Salvador history

President: Francisco Flores Pérez

Grenada

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Keith Mitchell

GuatemalaGuatemala history

President: Álvaro Arzú, then Alfonso Portillo

GuyanaGuyana history

President: Bharrat Jagdeo
Prime minister: Sam Hinds

HaitiHaiti history

President: René Préval
Prime minister: Jacques-Édouard Alexis

HondurasHonduras history

President: Carlos Roberto Flores

JamaicaJamaica history

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

MexicoMexico history

President: Ernesto Zedillo, then Vicente Fox

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: Arnoldo Alemán

PanamaPanama history

President: Mireya Moscoso

ParaguayParaguay history

President: Luis González

PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Alberto Fujimori
President of Transition Government: Valentín Paniagua
Prime Minister: Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde, then Federico Salas, then Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Denzil Douglas

Saint Lucia

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Kenny Anthony

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, then Arnhim Eustace

SurinameSuriname history

President: Jules Wijdenbosch, then Ronald Venetiaan

Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history

President: A. N. R. Robinson
Prime minister: Basdeo Panday

United StatesUnited States history

President: Bill Clinton

UruguayUruguay history

President: Julio María Sanguinetti, then Jorge Batlle

Asia

Ba'athist Iraq

President: Saddam Hussein
Prime minister: Saddam Hussein

BangladeshBangladesh history

President: Shahabuddin Ahmed
Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina

BhutanBhutan history

Druk Gyalpo: Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Prime minister: Sangay Ngedup, then Yeshey Zimba

BruneiBrunei history

Sultan: Hassanal Bolkiah

Burma/Myanmar: State Peace and Development Council (1997–2011)

Chairman: Than Shwe
Prime minister: Than Shwe

CambodiaCambodia history

King: Norodom Sihanouk
Prime minister: Hun Sen

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Jiang Zemin
President: Jiang Zemin
Premier: Zhu Rongji

CyprusCyprus history

President: Glafcos Clerides

IndiaIndia history

President: K. R. Narayanan
Prime minister: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

IndonesiaIndonesia history

President: Abdurrahman Wahid

IranIran history

Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
President: Mohammad Khatami

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Supreme leaders: Mullah Omar
Prime ministers: Mohammad Rabbani

Islamic State of Afghanistan

President: Burhanuddin Rabbani

IsraelIsrael history

President: Ezer Weizman, then Moshe Katsav
Prime minister: Ehud Barak

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Keizō Obuchi, then Yoshirō Mori
Acting Prime minister: Mikio Aoki

JordanJordan history

King: Abdullah II
Prime minister: Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh, then Ali Abu al-Ragheb

KazakhstanKazakhstan history

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime minister: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Kingdom of Nepal

King: Birendra
Prime minister: Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, then Girija Prasad Koirala

KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Jaber III
Prime minister: Saad Al-Abdullah

Kyrgyzstan

President: Askar Akayev
Prime minister: Amangeldy Muraliyev, then Kurmanbek Bakiyev

LaosLaos history

Chairman: Khamtai Siphandone
President: Khamtai Siphandone
Prime minister: Sisavath Keobounphanh

LebanonLebanon history

President: Émile Lahoud
Prime minister: Selim Hoss, then Rafic Hariri

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Salahuddin of Selangor
Prime minister: Mahathir Mohamad

Maldives

President: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

MongoliaMongolia history

President: Natsagiin Bagabandi
Prime minister: Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal, then Nambaryn Enkhbayar

North KoreaNorth Korea history

General Secretary: Kim Jong-il
Premier: Hong Song-nam

Northern Cyprus

President: Rauf Denktaş

OmanOman history

Sultan: Qaboos bin Said

PakistanPakistan history

President: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

PhilippinesPhilippines history

President: Joseph Estrada

QatarQatar history

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

Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: Fahd

SingaporeSingapore history

President: S. R. Nathan
Prime minister: Goh Chok Tong

South KoreaSouth Korea history

President: Kim Dae-jung

Sri LankaSri Lanka history

President: Chandrika Kumaratunga
Prime minister: Sirimavo Bandaranaike, then Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

State of Palestine

President: Yasser Arafat

State/ Kingdom of Bahrain

Prime minister: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Syria

President: Hafez al-Assad, then Bashar al-Assad
Acting President: Abdul Halim Khaddam
Prime minister: Mahmoud Zuabi, then Muhammad Mustafa Mero

TaiwanTaiwan history

President: Lee Teng-hui, then Chen Shui-bian
Premier: Vincent Siew, then Tang Fei, then Chang Chun-hsiung

TajikistanTajikistan history

President: Emomali Rahmon
Prime minister: Oqil Oqilov

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime minister: Chuan Leekpai

TurkeyTurkey history

President: Süleyman Demirel, then Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Prime minister: Bülent Ecevit

Turkmenistan

President: Saparmurat Niyazov

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: Oʻtkir Sultonov

VietnamVietnam history

General Secretary: Lê Khả Phiêu
President: Trần Đức Lương
Prime minister: Phan Văn Khải

YemenYemen history

Prime minister: Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani

Europe

(Former Yugoslav) Republic of MacedoniaNorth Macedonia history

President: Boris Trajkovski
Prime minister: Ljubčo Georgievski

Abkhazia

President: Vladislav Ardzinba
Prime minister: Viacheslav Tsugba

AlbaniaAlbania history

President: Rexhep Meidani
Prime minister: Ilir Meta

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Joan Martí i Alanis
French Co-Prince: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Marc Forné Molné

ArmeniaArmenia history

President: Robert Kocharyan
Prime minister: Aram Sargsyan, then Andranik Margaryan

AustriaAustria history

President: Thomas Klestil
Chancellor: Viktor Klima, then Wolfgang Schüssel

AzerbaijanAzerbaijan history

President: Heydar Aliyev
Prime minister: Artur Rasizade

BelarusBelarus history

President: Alexander Lukashenko
Prime minister: Sergey Ling, then Vladimir Yermoshin

BelgiumBelgium history

King: Albert II
Prime minister: Guy Verhofstadt

Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina history

High Representative: Wolfgang Petritsch
Chairmen: Ante Jelavić, then Alija Izetbegović
Chairman: Živko Radišić, then Martin Raguž
Member: Alija Izetbegović, then Ante Jelavić, then Živko Radišić, then Halid Genjac

BulgariaBulgaria history

President: Petar Stoyanov
Prime minister: Ivan Yordanov Kostov

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

President: Aslan Maskhadov

CroatiaCroatia history

Acting President: Vlatko Pavletić
President: Stjepan Mesić
Prime minister: Zlatko Mateša, then Ivica Račan

Czech RepublicCzech Republic history

President: Václav Havel
Prime Minister: Miloš Zeman

DenmarkDenmark history

Queen: Margrethe II
Prime minister: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

EstoniaEstonia history

President: Lennart Meri
Prime minister: Mart Laar

FinlandFinland history

President: Martti Ahtisaari, then Tarja Halonen
Prime minister: Paavo Lipponen

FranceFrance history

President: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Lionel Jospin

Georgia

President: Eduard Shevardnadze
State minister: Vazha Lortkipanidze, then Giorgi Arsenishvili

GermanyGermany history

President: Johannes Rau
Chancellor: Gerhard Schröder

GreeceGreece history

President: Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Prime minister: Costas Simitis

HungaryHungary history

President: Árpád Göncz, then Ferenc Mádl
Prime minister: Viktor Orbán

IcelandIceland history

President: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Prime minister: Davíð Oddsson

ItalyItaly history

President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Prime minister: Massimo D'Alema, then Giuliano Amato

LatviaLatvia history

President: Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Prime minister: Andris Šķēle, then Andris Bērziņš

Liechtenstein

Prince: Hans-Adam II
Prime minister: Mario Frick

LithuaniaLithuania history

President: Valdas Adamkus
Prime minister: Andrius Kubilius, then Rolandas Paksas

LuxembourgLuxembourg history

Grand Duke: Jean, then Henri
Prime minister: Jean-Claude Juncker

MaltaMalta history

President: Guido de Marco
Prime minister: Eddie Fenech Adami

MoldovaMoldova history

President: Petru Lucinschi
Prime minister: Dumitru Braghiș

Monaco

Prince: Rainier III
Minister of state: Michel Lévêque, then Patrick Leclercq

NorwayNorway history

King: Harald V
Prime minister: Kjell Magne Bondevik, then Jens Stoltenberg

PolandPoland history

President: Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Prime minister: Jerzy Buzek

PortugalPortugal history

President: Jorge Sampaio
Prime minister: António Guterres

Republic of Ireland

President: Mary McAleese
Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern

Republic of Kosova

President: Ibrahim Rugova
Prime minister: Bujar Bukoshi
Interim Prime minister: Hashim Thaçi

Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh

President: Arkadi Ghukasyan
President of the National Assembly: Oleg Yesayan

RomaniaRomania history

President: Emil Constantinescu, then Ion Iliescu
Prime minister: Mugur Isărescu, then Adrian Năstase

RussiaRussia history

Acting President: Vladimir Putin
Prime minister: Vladimir Putin, then Mikhail Kasyanov

San Marino

Captains Regent: Marino Bollini, then Giuseppe Arzilli, then Maria Domenica Michelotti, then Gian Marco Marcucci, then Gianfranco Terenzi, then Enzo Colombini

SlovakiaSlovakia history

President: Rudolf Schuster
Prime minister: Mikuláš Dzurinda

SloveniaSlovenia history

President: Milan Kučan
Prime minister: Janez Drnovšek, then Andrej Bajuk

South Ossetia

Head of state; President: Lyudvig Chibirov
Prime minister: Merab Chigoev

SpainSpain history

King: Juan Carlos I
Prime minister: José María Aznar

SwedenSweden history

King: Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister: Göran Persson

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: Adolf Ogi

The Netherlands

Queen: Beatrix
Prime minister: Wim Kok

UkraineUkraine history

President: Leonid Kuchma
Prime minister: Viktor Yushchenko

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Tony Blair

Vatican City

Sovereign: John Paul II

Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro

President: Slobodan Milošević, then Vojislav Koštunica
Prime minister: Momir Bulatović

Oceania

AustraliaAustralia history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Howard

Cook Islands, state in free association

Queen: Elizabeth II

Federated States of Micronesia

President: Leo Falcam

FijiFiji history

President: Kamisese Mara, then Josefa Iloilo
Prime minister: Mahendra Chaudhry

Kiribati

President: Teburoro Tito

Marshall Islands

President: Imata Kabua, then Kessai Note

Nauru

President: René Harris, then Bernard Dowiyogo

New ZealandNew Zealand history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Helen Clark

Palau

President: Kuniwo Nakamura

Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Mekere Morauta

SamoaSamoa history

O le Ao o le Malo: Malietoa Tanumafili II
Prime minister: Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi

Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, then Manasseh Sogavare

TongaTonga history

King: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
Prime minister: Baron Vaea, then Tupou VI, then known as ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho

Tuvalu

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Ionatana Ionatana
Acting Prime minister: Lagitupu Tuilimu

VanuatuVanuatu history

President: John Bani
Prime minister: Barak Sopé