World leaders in 2006

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 2006, 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 2006 →

Major powers in 2006

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: Dominique de Villepin

GermanyGermany history

President: Horst Köhler
Chancellor: Angela Merkel

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Junichirō Koizumi, then Shinzō Abe

IndiaIndia history

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

Africa

AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia, then Abdelaziz Belkhadem

AngolaAngola history

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

BeninBenin history

President: Mathieu Kérékou, then Thomas Boni Yayi

BotswanaBotswana history

President: Festus Mogae

Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history

President: Blaise Compaoré
Prime minister: Paramanga Ernest Yonli

BurundiBurundi history

President: 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: Élie Doté

ChadChad history

President: Idriss Déby
Prime minister: Pascal Yoadimnadji

Comoros

President: Azali Assoumani, then Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi

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

President: Joseph Kabila
Prime minister: Antoine Gizenga

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, then Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea

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

President: João Bernardo Vieira
Prime minister: Aristides Gomes

Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Laurent Gbagbo
Prime minister: 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
President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution: Muammar Gaddafi
Prime minister: Shukri Ghanem, then Baghdadi Mahmudi

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

Chairman of the Military Council: Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
Prime minister: Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar

MauritiusMauritius history

President: Anerood Jugnauth
Prime minister: Navin Ramgoolam

MoroccoMorocco history

King: Mohammed VI
Prime Minister: Driss Jettou

MozambiqueMozambique history

President: Armando Guebuza
Prime minister: Luísa Diogo

NamibiaNamibia history

President: Hifikepunye Pohamba
Prime minister: 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: Maria do Carmo Silveira, then Tomé Vera Cruz

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: Jakaya Kikwete
Prime minister: Edward Lowassa

TogoTogo history

President: Faure Gnassingbé
Prime minister: Edem Kodjo, then Yawovi Agboyibo

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: Evo Morales

BrazilBrazil history

President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Paul Martin, then Stephen Harper

ChileChile history

President: Ricardo Lagos, then Michelle Bachelet

ColombiaColombia history

President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez

Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Abel Pacheco de la Espriella, then Óscar Arias

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: 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
President: René Préval
Prime minister: Gérard Latortue, then Jacques-Édouard Alexis

HondurasHonduras history

President: Ricardo Maduro, then Manuel Zelaya

JamaicaJamaica history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: P. J. Patterson, then Portia Simpson-Miller

MexicoMexico history

President: Vicente Fox, then Felipe Calderón

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: Enrique Bolaños

PanamaPanama history

President: Martín Torrijos

ParaguayParaguay history

President: Nicanor Duarte

PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Alejandro Toledo, then Alan García Pérez
Prime Minister: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, then Jorge Del Castillo

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Denzil Douglas

Saint Lucia

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Kenny Anthony, then John Compton

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: Tabaré Vázquez

Asia

BangladeshBangladesh history

President: Iajuddin Ahmed
Prime minister: Khaleda Zia
Chief adviser: Iajuddin Ahmed

BhutanBhutan history

Druk Gyalpo: Jigme Singye Wangchuck, then Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Prime minister: Sangay Ngedup, then Khandu Wangchuk

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: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

President: Hamid Karzai

IsraelIsrael history

President: Moshe Katsav
Prime minister: Ariel Sharon, then Ehud Olmert

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Junichirō Koizumi, then Shinzō Abe

JordanJordan history

King: Abdullah II
Prime minister: Marouf al-Bakhit

KazakhstanKazakhstan history

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime minister: Daniyal Akhmetov

Kingdom of Nepal

King: Gyanendra
Prime minister: Girija Prasad Koirala

KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Jaber III, then Saad I, then Sabah IV
Prime minister: Sabah Al-Ahmad, then Nasser Al-Mohammed

Kyrgyzstan

President: Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Acting Prime minister: Felix Kulov

LaosLaos history

Chairman: Khamtai Siphandone
General Secretary: Choummaly Sayasone
President: Khamtai Siphandone, then Choummaly Sayasone
Prime minister: Bounnhang Vorachit, then Bouasone Bouphavanh

LebanonLebanon history

President: Émile Lahoud
Prime minister: Fouad Siniora

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sirajuddin of Perlis, then Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
Prime minister: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Maldives

President: Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

MongoliaMongolia history

President: Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Prime minister: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, then Miyeegombyn Enkhbold

North KoreaNorth Korea history

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

Northern Cyprus

President: Mehmet Ali Talat
Prime minister: Ferdi Sabit Soyer

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

President: Jalal Talabani
Prime minister: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, then Nouri al-Maliki

Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: 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: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime minister: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

State of Palestine

Prime minister: Ahmed Qurei, then Ismail Haniyeh

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: Frank Hsieh, then Su Tseng-chang

TajikistanTajikistan history

President: Emomali Rahmon
Prime minister: Oqil Oqilov

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
President of the Administrative Reform Council of Thailand: Sonthi Boonyaratglin
Prime minister: Surayud Chulanont

Timor-Leste (independent 2002–present)

President: Xanana Gusmão
Prime minister: Mari Alkatiri, then José Ramos-Horta

TurkeyTurkey history

President: Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Prime minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkmenistan

President: Saparmurat Niyazov
Acting President: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates history

President: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Prime minister: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, then Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

UzbekistanUzbekistan history

President: Islam Karimov
Prime minister: Shavkat Mirziyoyev

VietnamVietnam history

General Secretary: Nông Đức Mạnh
President: Trần Đức Lương, then Nguyễn Minh Triết
Prime minister: Phan Văn Khải, then Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

YemenYemen history

Prime minister: Abdul Qadir Bajamal

Europe

(Former Yugoslav) Republic of MacedoniaNorth Macedonia history

President: Branko Crvenkovski
Prime minister: Vlado Bučkovski, then Nikola Gruevski

Abkhazia

President: Sergei Bagapsh
Prime minister: Alexander Ankvab

AlbaniaAlbania history

President: Alfred Moisiu
Prime minister: Sali Berisha

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Joan Enric Vives Sicília
French Co-Prince: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: 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, then Christian Schwarz-Schilling
Chairman: Adnan Terzić, then Ivo Miro Jović, then Sulejman Tihić, then Nebojša Radmanović
Member: Sulejman Tihić, then Borislav Paravac, then Ivo Miro Jović, then Haris Silajdžić, then Željko Komšić, then Nebojša Radmanović

BulgariaBulgaria history

President: Georgi Parvanov
Prime minister: Sergei Stanishev

CroatiaCroatia history

President: Stjepan Mesić
Prime minister: Ivo Sanader

Czech RepublicCzech Republic history

President: Václav Klaus
Prime Minister: Jiří Paroubek, then Mirek Topolánek

DenmarkDenmark history

Queen: Margrethe II
Prime minister: Anders Fogh Rasmussen

EstoniaEstonia history

President: Arnold Rüütel, then Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Prime minister: Andrus Ansip

FinlandFinland history

President: Tarja Halonen
Prime minister: Matti Vanhanen

FranceFrance history

President: Jacques Chirac
Prime minister: Dominique de Villepin

Georgia

President: Mikheil Saakashvili
Prime minister: Zurab Noghaideli

GermanyGermany history

President: Horst Köhler
Chancellor: Angela Merkel

GreeceGreece history

President: Karolos Papoulias
Prime minister: Kostas Karamanlis

HungaryHungary history

President: László Sólyom
Prime minister: Ferenc Gyurcsány

IcelandIceland history

President: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Prime minister: Halldór Ásgrímsson, then Geir Haarde

ItalyItaly history

President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, then Giorgio Napolitano
Prime minister: Silvio Berlusconi, then Romano Prodi

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, then Gediminas Kirkilas
Acting Prime minister: Zigmantas Balčytis

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: Albert II
Minister of state: Jean-Paul Proust

MontenegroMontenegro history

President: Filip Vujanović
Prime minister: Milo Đukanović, then Željko Šturanović

NorwayNorway history

King: Harald V
Prime minister: Jens Stoltenberg

PolandPoland history

President: Lech Kaczyński
Prime minister: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, then Jarosław Kaczyński

PortugalPortugal history

President: Jorge Sampaio, then Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime minister: José Sócrates

Republic of Ireland

President: Mary McAleese
Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern

Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh

President: Arkadi Ghukasyan
President of the National Assembly: 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: Claudio Muccioli, then Antonello Bacciocchi, then Gianfranco Terenzi, then Loris Francini, then Antonio Carattoni, then Roberto Giorgetti

SerbiaSerbia history

President: Boris Tadić
Prime minister: Vojislav Koštunica

SlovakiaSlovakia history

President: Ivan Gašparovič
Prime minister: Mikuláš Dzurinda, then Robert Fico

SloveniaSlovenia history

President: Janez Drnovšek
Prime minister: Janez Janša

South Ossetia

President: Eduard Kokoity
Prime minister: Yury Morozov

SpainSpain history

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

SwedenSweden history

King: Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister: Göran Persson, then Fredrik Reinfeldt

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: Moritz Leuenberger

The Netherlands

Queen: Beatrix
Prime minister: Jan Peter Balkenende

UkraineUkraine history

President: Viktor Yushchenko
Prime minister: Yuriy Yekhanurov, then Viktor Yanukovych

UN-administered Kosovo

President: Ibrahim Rugova
acting President: Nexhat Daci
Prime minister: Bajram Kosumi, then Agim Çeku

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Tony Blair

Vatican City

Sovereign: 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
Head of the interim military government: Frank Bainimarama
Prime minister: Laisenia Qarase
Acting Prime minister: Jona Senilagakali

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, then Snyder Rini, then Manasseh Sogavare

TongaTonga history

King: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then George Tupou V
Prime minister: Tupou VI, then known as ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho, then Feleti Sevele

Tuvalu

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Maatia Toafa, then Apisai Ielemia

VanuatuVanuatu history

President: Kalkot Mataskelekele
Prime minister: Ham Lini