World leaders in 2005

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 2005, 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 2005 →

Major powers in 2005

United StatesUnited States history

President: George W. Bush

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Tony Blair

RussiaRussia history

President: Vladimir Putin
Prime minister: Mikhail Fradkov

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Hu Jintao
President: Hu Jintao
Premier: Wen Jiabao

FranceFrance history

President: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, then Dominique de Villepin

GermanyGermany history

President: Horst Köhler
Chancellor: Gerhard Schröder, then Angela Merkel

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Junichirō Koizumi

IndiaIndia history

President: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Prime minister: Manmohan Singh

Africa

AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia

AngolaAngola history

President: José Eduardo dos Santos
Prime minister: Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos

BeninBenin history

President: Mathieu Kérékou

BotswanaBotswana history

President: Festus Mogae

Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history

President: Blaise Compaoré
Prime minister: Paramanga Ernest Yonli

BurundiBurundi history

President: Domitien Ndayizeye, then Pierre Nkurunziza

CameroonCameroon history

President: Paul Biya
Prime minister: Ephraïm Inoni

Cape VerdeCape Verde history

President: Pedro Pires
Prime minister: José Maria Neves

Central African Republic

President: François Bozizé
Prime minister: Célestin Gaombalet, then Élie Doté

ChadChad history

President: Idriss Déby
Prime minister: Moussa Faki, then Pascal Yoadimnadji

Comoros

President: Azali Assoumani

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

President: Joseph Kabila

DjiboutiDjibouti history

President: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Prime minister: Dileita Mohamed Dileita

EgyptEgypt history

President: Hosni Mubarak
Prime minister: Ahmed Nazif

Equatorial Guinea

President: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Prime minister: Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó

EritreaEritrea history

President: Isaias Afwerki

EthiopiaEthiopia history

President: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Prime minister: Meles Zenawi

GabonGabon history

President: Omar Bongo

GambiaGambia history

President: Yahya Jammeh

GhanaGhana history

President: John Kufuor

GuineaGuinea history

President: Lansana Conté
Prime minister: Cellou Dalein Diallo

Guinea-Bissau

Acting President: Henrique Rosa
President: João Bernardo Vieira
Prime minister: Carlos Gomes Júnior, then Aristides Gomes

Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Laurent Gbagbo
Prime minister: Seydou Diarra, then Charles Konan Banny

KenyaKenya history

President: Mwai Kibaki

LesothoLesotho history

King: Letsie III
Prime minister: Pakalitha Mosisili

LiberiaLiberia history

Chairman of the National Transitional Government: Gyude Bryant

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution: Muammar Gaddafi
Prime minister: Shukri Ghanem

Madagascar

President: Marc Ravalomanana
Prime minister: Jacques Sylla

MalawiMalawi history

President: Bingu wa Mutharika

MaliMali history

President: Amadou Toumani Touré
Prime minister: Ousmane Issoufi Maïga

MauritaniaMauritania history

President: Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Chairman of the Military Council: Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
Prime minister: Sghair Ould M'Bareck, then Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar

MauritiusMauritius history

President: Anerood Jugnauth
Prime minister: Paul Bérenger, then Navin Ramgoolam

MoroccoMorocco history

King: Mohammed VI
Prime Minister: Driss Jettou

MozambiqueMozambique history

President: Joaquim Chissano, then Armando Guebuza
Prime minister: Luísa Diogo

NamibiaNamibia history

President: Sam Nujoma, then Hifikepunye Pohamba
Prime minister: Theo-Ben Gurirab, then Nahas Angula

NigerNiger history

President: Mamadou Tandja
Prime minister: Hama Amadou

Nigeria: Fourth RepublicNigeria history

President: Olusegun Obasanjo

Republic of Somaliland

President: Dahir Riyale Kahin

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

President: Denis Sassou Nguesso
Prime minister: Isidore Mvouba

RwandaRwanda history

President: Paul Kagame
Prime minister: Bernard Makuza

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

President: Mohamed Abdelaziz
Prime Minister: Abdelkader Taleb Omar

São Tomé and Príncipe

President: Fradique de Menezes
Prime minister: Damião Vaz d'Almeida, then Maria do Carmo Silveira

SenegalSenegal history

President: Abdoulaye Wade
Prime minister: Macky Sall

Seychelles

President: James Michel

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: Themba Dlamini

TanzaniaTanzania history

President: Benjamin Mkapa, then Jakaya Kikwete
Prime minister: Frederick Sumaye, then Edward Lowassa

TogoTogo history

President: Gnassingbé Eyadéma, then Faure Gnassingbé
Interim President: Bonfoh Abass
Prime minister: Koffi Sama, then Edem Kodjo

Transitional Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia

President: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
Prime minister: Ali Mohammed Ghedi

TunisiaTunisia history

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

Uganda

President: Yoweri Museveni
Prime minister: Apolo Nsibambi

ZambiaZambia history

President: Levy Mwanawasa

Zimbabwe

President: Robert Mugabe

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Baldwin Spencer

ArgentinaArgentina history

President: Néstor Kirchner

BahamasBahamas history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Perry Christie

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: Carlos Mesa, then Eduardo Rodríguez

BrazilBrazil history

President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Paul Martin

ChileChile history

President: Ricardo Lagos

ColombiaColombia history

President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez

Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Abel Pacheco de la Espriella

CubaCuba history

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

Dominica

President: Nicholas Liverpool
Prime minister: Roosevelt Skerrit

Dominican RepublicDominican Republic history

President: Leonel Fernández

EcuadorEcuador history

President: Lucio Gutiérrez, then Alfredo Palacio

El SalvadorEl Salvador history

President: Antonio Saca

Grenada

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Keith Mitchell

GuatemalaGuatemala history

President: Óscar Berger

GuyanaGuyana history

President: Bharrat Jagdeo
Prime minister: Sam Hinds

HaitiHaiti history

Provisional President: Boniface Alexandre
Prime minister: Gérard Latortue

HondurasHonduras history

President: Ricardo Maduro

JamaicaJamaica history

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

MexicoMexico history

President: Vicente Fox

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: Enrique Bolaños

PanamaPanama history

President: Martín Torrijos

ParaguayParaguay history

President: Nicanor Duarte

PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Alejandro Toledo
Prime Minister: Carlos Ferrero, then Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

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

SurinameSuriname history

President: Ronald Venetiaan

Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history

President: George Maxwell Richards
Prime minister: Patrick Manning

United StatesUnited States history

President: George W. Bush

UruguayUruguay history

President: Jorge Batlle, then Tabaré Vázquez

Asia

BangladeshBangladesh history

President: Iajuddin Ahmed
Prime minister: Khaleda Zia

BhutanBhutan history

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

BruneiBrunei history

Sultan: Hassanal Bolkiah

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

Chairman: Than Shwe
Prime minister: Soe Win

CambodiaCambodia history

King: Norodom Sihamoni
Prime minister: Hun Sen

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Hu Jintao
President: Hu Jintao
Premier: Wen Jiabao

CyprusCyprus history

President: Tassos Papadopoulos

IndiaIndia history

President: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Prime minister: Manmohan Singh

IndonesiaIndonesia history

President: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

IranIran history

Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
President: Mohammad Khatami, then Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

President: Hamid Karzai

IsraelIsrael history

President: Moshe Katsav
Prime minister: Ariel Sharon

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Junichirō Koizumi

JordanJordan history

King: Abdullah II
Prime minister: Faisal al-Fayez, then Adnan Badran, then Marouf al-Bakhit

KazakhstanKazakhstan history

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime minister: Daniyal Akhmetov

Kingdom of Nepal

King: Gyanendra
Prime minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba

KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Jaber III
Prime minister: Sabah Al-Ahmad

Kyrgyzstan

President: Askar Akayev, then Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Acting President: Ishenbai Kadyrbekov
Prime minister: Nikolai Tanayev, then Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Acting Prime minister: Medetbek Kerimkulov, then Felix Kulov

LaosLaos history

Chairman: Khamtai Siphandone
President: Khamtai Siphandone
Prime minister: Bounnhang Vorachit

LebanonLebanon history

President: Émile Lahoud
Prime minister: Omar Karami, then Fouad Siniora
Primeln minister: Najib Mikati

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sirajuddin of Perlis
Prime minister: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Maldives

President: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

MongoliaMongolia history

President: Natsagiin Bagabandi, then Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Prime minister: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

North KoreaNorth Korea history

General Secretary: Kim Jong-il
Premier: Pak Pong-ju

Northern Cyprus

President: Rauf Denktaş, then Mehmet Ali Talat
Prime minister: Mehmet Ali Talat, then Ferdi Sabit Soyer
acting Prime minister: Serdar Denktaş

OmanOman history

Sultan: Qaboos bin Said

PakistanPakistan history

President: Pervez Musharraf
Prime minister: Shaukat Aziz

PhilippinesPhilippines history

President: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

QatarQatar history

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

Republic of IraqIraq history

Interim President: Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
President: Jalal Talabani
Acting Prime minister: Ayad Allawi
Prime minister: Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: Fahd, then Abdullah

SingaporeSingapore history

President: S. R. Nathan
Prime minister: Lee Hsien Loong

South KoreaSouth Korea history

President: Roh Moo-hyun
Prime minister: Lee Hae-chan

Sri LankaSri Lanka history

President: Chandrika Kumaratunga, then Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime minister: Mahinda Rajapaksa, then Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

State of Palestine

Prime minister: Ahmed Qurei
Acting Prime minister: Nabil Shaath

State/ Kingdom of Bahrain

King: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Prime minister: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Syria

President: Bashar al-Assad
Prime minister: Muhammad Naji al-Otari

TaiwanTaiwan history

President: Chen Shui-bian
Premier: Yu Shyi-kun, then Frank Hsieh

TajikistanTajikistan history

President: Emomali Rahmon
Prime minister: Oqil Oqilov

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime minister: Thaksin Shinawatra

Timor-Leste (independent 2002–present)

President: Xanana Gusmão
Prime minister: Mari Alkatiri

TurkeyTurkey history

President: Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Prime minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkmenistan

President: Saparmurat Niyazov

United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates history

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

UzbekistanUzbekistan history

President: Islam Karimov
Prime minister: Shavkat Mirziyoyev

VietnamVietnam history

General Secretary: Nông Đức Mạnh
President: Trần Đức Lương
Prime minister: Phan Văn Khải

YemenYemen history

Prime minister: Abdul Qadir Bajamal

Europe

(Former Yugoslav) Republic of MacedoniaNorth Macedonia history

President: Branko Crvenkovski
Prime minister: Vlado Bučkovski

Abkhazia

President: Vladislav Ardzinba, then Sergei Bagapsh
Prime minister: Nodar Khashba, then Alexander Ankvab

AlbaniaAlbania history

President: Alfred Moisiu
Prime minister: Fatos Nano, then Sali Berisha

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Joan Enric Vives Sicília
French Co-Prince: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Marc Forné Molné, then Albert Pintat

ArmeniaArmenia history

President: Robert Kocharyan
Prime minister: Andranik Margaryan

AustriaAustria history

President: Heinz Fischer
Chancellor: Wolfgang Schüssel

AzerbaijanAzerbaijan history

President: Ilham Aliyev
Prime minister: Artur Rasizade

BelarusBelarus history

President: Alexander Lukashenko
Prime minister: Sergei Sidorsky

BelgiumBelgium history

King: Albert II
Prime minister: Guy Verhofstadt

Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina history

High Representative: Paddy Ashdown
Chairman: Adnan Terzić, then Borislav Paravac, then Ivo Miro Jović
Member: Sulejman Tihić, then Dragan Čović, then Borislav Paravac, then Ivo Miro Jović

BulgariaBulgaria history

President: Georgi Parvanov
Prime minister: Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, then Sergei Stanishev

CroatiaCroatia history

President: Stjepan Mesić
Prime minister: Ivo Sanader

Czech RepublicCzech Republic history

President: Václav Klaus
Prime Minister: Stanislav Gross, then Jiří Paroubek

DenmarkDenmark history

Queen: Margrethe II
Prime minister: Anders Fogh Rasmussen

EstoniaEstonia history

President: Arnold Rüütel
Prime minister: Juhan Parts, then Andrus Ansip

FinlandFinland history

President: Tarja Halonen
Prime minister: Matti Vanhanen

FranceFrance history

President: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, then Dominique de Villepin

Georgia

President: Mikheil Saakashvili
Prime minister: Zurab Zhvania, then Zurab Noghaideli
Acting President: Mikheil Saakashvili

GermanyGermany history

President: Horst Köhler
Chancellor: Gerhard Schröder, then Angela Merkel

GreeceGreece history

President: Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, then Karolos Papoulias
Prime minister: Kostas Karamanlis

HungaryHungary history

President: Ferenc Mádl, then László Sólyom
Prime minister: Ferenc Gyurcsány

IcelandIceland history

President: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Prime minister: Halldór Ásgrímsson

ItalyItaly history

President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Prime minister: Silvio Berlusconi

LatviaLatvia history

President: Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Prime minister: Aigars Kalvītis

Liechtenstein

Prince: Hans-Adam II
Prime minister: Otmar Hasler

LithuaniaLithuania history

President: Valdas Adamkus
Prime minister: Algirdas Brazauskas

LuxembourgLuxembourg history

Grand Duke: Henri
Prime minister: Jean-Claude Juncker

MaltaMalta history

President: Eddie Fenech Adami
Prime minister: Lawrence Gonzi

MoldovaMoldova history

President: Vladimir Voronin
Prime minister: Vasile Tarlev

Monaco

Prince: Rainier III, then Albert II
Minister of state: Patrick Leclercq, then Jean-Paul Proust

NorwayNorway history

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

PolandPoland history

President: Aleksander Kwaśniewski, then Lech Kaczyński
Prime minister: Marek Belka, then Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

PortugalPortugal history

President: Jorge Sampaio
Prime minister: Pedro Santana Lopes, then José Sócrates

Republic of Ireland

President: Mary McAleese
Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern

Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh

President: Arkadi Ghukasyan
President of the National Assembly: Oleg Yesayan, then Ashot Ghulian

RomaniaRomania history

President: Traian Băsescu
Prime minister: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

RussiaRussia history

President: Vladimir Putin
Prime minister: Mikhail Fradkov

San Marino

Captains Regent: Giuseppe Arzilli, then Roberto Raschi, then Fausta Morganti, then Cesare Gasperoni, then Claudio Muccioli, then Antonello Bacciocchi

SerbiaSerbia history

President: Boris Tadić
Prime minister: Vojislav Koštunica

SlovakiaSlovakia history

President: Ivan Gašparovič
Prime minister: Mikuláš Dzurinda

SloveniaSlovenia history

President: Janez Drnovšek
Prime minister: Janez Janša

South Ossetia

President: Eduard Kokoity
Prime minister: Igor Sanakoyev, then Yury Morozov
Acting Prime minister: Zurab Kokoyev

SpainSpain history

King: Juan Carlos I
Prime minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

SwedenSweden history

King: Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister: Göran Persson

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: Samuel Schmid

The Netherlands

Queen: Beatrix
Prime minister: Jan Peter Balkenende

UkraineUkraine history

President: Leonid Kuchma, then Viktor Yushchenko
Prime minister: Viktor Yanukovych, then Yulia Tymoshenko, then Yuriy Yekhanurov
Acting Prime minister: Mykola Azarov

UN-administered Kosovo

President: Ibrahim Rugova
Prime minister: Ramush Haradinaj, then Bajram Kosumi
acting Prime minister: Adem Salihaj

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Tony Blair

Vatican City

Sovereign: John Paul II, then Benedict XVI

Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro

President: Svetozar Marović

Oceania

AustraliaAustralia history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Howard

Cook Islands, state in free association

Queen: Elizabeth II

Federated States of Micronesia

President: Joseph J. Urusemal

FijiFiji history

President: Josefa Iloilo
Prime minister: Laisenia Qarase

Kiribati

President: Anote Tong

Marshall Islands

President: Kessai Note

Nauru

President: Ludwig Scotty

New ZealandNew Zealand history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Helen Clark

Palau

Jr., President: Tommy Remengesau

Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Michael Somare

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: Allan Kemakeza

TongaTonga history

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

Tuvalu

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Maatia Toafa

VanuatuVanuatu history

President: Kalkot Mataskelekele
Prime minister: Ham Lini