Shortest-serving leaders: full top 100

The full top 100 shortest-serving heads of state and government across every country we track.

#	Leader	Country	In office	Days
1	Víctor González Fuentes	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1978–1978	<1
2	Sakari Tuomioja	🇫🇮 Finland	1953–1953	<1
3	Hyppolite Ramaroson	🇲🇬 Madagascar	2009–2009	<1
4	Walter Breisky	🇦🇹 Austria	1922–1922	1
	A civil servant who served as Austria's chancellor for a single day in January 1922, bridging the gap between one collapsed government and the next.
5	Fazlul Haque	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2007–2007	1
6	Honoré Traoré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2014–2014	1
	The general who declared himself Burkina Faso's head of state when President Compaoré fled the 2014 uprising. The army replaced him with another officer within a day.
7	Pedro Opaso	🇨🇱 Chile	1931–1931	1
8	Clímaco Calderón	🇨🇴 Colombia	1882–1882	1
	President of Colombia for one day in December 1882, stepping in when President Francisco Javier Zaldúa died suddenly in office.
9	Haribon Chebani	🇰🇲 Comoros	1989–1989	1
10	Carlos Manuel Piedra	🇨🇺 Cuba	1959–1959	1
11	Eddy Kapend	🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo	2001–2001	1
12	Eduardo Camaño	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2002	2
	Another of Argentina's five presidents in two weeks during the December 2001 crisis. As leader of the Chamber of Deputies, Camaño held the acting presidency over the New Year while Congress picked a successor.
13	Ramón Puerta	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	2
	Argentina's economy collapsed in December 2001 and the country burned through five presidents in under two weeks. As Senate leader, Puerta held the acting presidency for roughly 48 hours between two resignations.
14	José Domingo Molina Gómez	🇦🇷 Argentina	1955–1955	2
	An army general who briefly held power after the September 1955 coup that overthrew Juan Perón, before handing over to the junta's chosen president.
15	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	🇦🇹 Austria	1938–1938	2
	An Austrian Nazi installed as chancellor on 11 March 1938. Two days later he signed Austria into Hitler's Germany in the Anschluss, abolishing the country he led. He was later executed at Nuremberg for war crimes.
16	Carlos Luz	🇧🇷 Brazil	1955–1955	2
	Acting president of Brazil for less than three days in November 1955, ousted by a 'preventive coup' launched to guarantee that president-elect Juscelino Kubitschek could actually take office.
17	Manuel María Ramírez	🇨🇴 Colombia	1877–1877	2
18	Abdelmalek Benhabyles	🇩🇿 Algeria	1992–1992	3
19	Arturo Rawson	🇦🇷 Argentina	1943–1943	3
20	Said Ali Kemal	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
21	Combo Ayouba	🇰🇲 Comoros	1995–1995	3
22	Dimitar Stanchov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1907–1907	4
23	Peter Gabrovski	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1943–1943	5
24	Hartwig Löger	🇦🇹 Austria	2019–2019	6
25	Pedro Blanco Soto	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1829	6
26	Chérif Sy	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
27	Gilbert Diendéré	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2015–2015	6
28	François Ngeze	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1993	6
29	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	🇦🇷 Argentina	2001–2001	7
30	Frank Forde	🇦🇺 Australia	1945–1945	7
31	Konstantin Muraviev	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1944–1944	7
32	Reinhold Mitterlehner	🇦🇹 Austria	2016–2016	8
33	José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1828	8
34	Lúcio Lara	🇦🇴 Angola	1979–1979	9
35	Simon Vratsian	🇦🇲 Armenia	1920–1920	9
36	Eusebio Guilarte Mole	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1847–1848	10
37	Pascal Nyabenda	🇧🇮 Burundi	2020–2020	10
38	Carlos Lacoste	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	11
39	Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean	🇦🇷 Argentina	1982–1982	13
40	Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet	🇨🇫 Central African Republic	2014–2014	13
41	Francisco Antonio Pinto	🇨🇱 Chile	1829–1829	14
42	Heinrich Lammasch	🇦🇹 Austria	1918–1918	15
43	Alberto Natusch	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1979–1979	15
44	Zlatko Tomčić	🇭🇷 Croatia	2000–2000	16
45	Yacouba Isaac Zida	🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2014–2014	17
46	Earle Page	🇦🇺 Australia	1939–1939	19
47	Bartolomé Blanche	🇨🇱 Chile	1932–1932	19
48	Horacio Liendo	🇦🇷 Argentina	1981–1981	20
49	Elías Fernández Albano	🇨🇱 Chile	1910–1910	21
50	John McEwen	🇦🇺 Australia	1967–1968	22
51	Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada	🇨🇺 Cuba	1933–1933	24
52	Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli	🇧🇷 Brazil	1961–1964 (2 terms)	26
53	Néstor Guillén	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1946–1946	27
54	Domingo Matheu	🇦🇷 Argentina	1811–1811	28
55	Sebastián Ágreda	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1841–1841	29
56	Isa Gambar	🇦🇿 Azerbaijan	1992–1992	30
57	Francisco Ramón Vicuña	🇨🇱 Chile	1829–1829	35
58	Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez	🇨🇷 Costa Rica	1882–1882	35
59	Arthur Fadden	🇦🇺 Australia	1941–1941	39
60	Vicente López y Planes	🇦🇷 Argentina	1827–1827	41
61	Fejzi Alizoti	🇦🇱 Albania	1914–1914	44
62	Rabah Bitat	🇩🇿 Algeria	1978–1979	44
63	Héctor José Cámpora	🇦🇷 Argentina	1973–1973	49
64	Ibrahim Biçakçiu	🇦🇱 Albania	1944–1944	50
65	Eduardo Lonardi	🇦🇷 Argentina	1955–1955	50
66	Vlatko Pavletić	🇭🇷 Croatia	1999–2000	54
67	Carlos Dávila	🇨🇱 Chile	1932–1932	59
68	Cyprien Ntaryamira	🇧🇮 Burundi	1994–1994	60
69	Manuel Blanco Encalada	🇨🇱 Chile	1826–1826	62
70	Carl Vaugoin	🇦🇹 Austria	1930–1930	65
71	Johan Casimir Ehrnrooth	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1881–1881	65
72	Charles Tupper	🇨🇦 Canada	1896–1896	68
73	Aníbal Zañartu	🇨🇱 Chile	1901–1901	68
74	Yaqub Mammadov	🇦🇿 Azerbaijan	1992–1992	69
75	Iajuddin Ahmed	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2006–2007	74
76	Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1841–1841	75
77	Marin Raykov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2013–2013	77
78	Andrey Gurov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2026–2026	78
79	Abderrahmane Farès	🇩🇿 Algeria	1962–1962	79
80	John Turner	🇨🇦 Canada	1984–1984	79
81	Guido Vildoso	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1982–1982	81
82	Nereu Ramos	🇧🇷 Brazil	1955–1956	81
83	Ramón Freire	🇨🇱 Chile	1827–1827	82
84	Wálter Guevara	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1979–1979	85
85	Maliq Bushati	🇦🇱 Albania	1943–1943	88
86	Pencho Zlatev	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1935–1935	89
87	Raúl Alberto Lastiri	🇦🇷 Argentina	1973–1973	90
88	Georgi Bliznashki	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2014–2014	93
89	Ivan Bagryanov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1944–1944	93
90	José Linhares	🇧🇷 Brazil	1945–1946	94
91	Dimitar Petkov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1906–1907	96
92	Ognyan Gerdzhikov	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2017–2017	97
93	Stefan Sofiyanski	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1997–1997	97
94	Reneta Indzhova	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1994–1995	100
95	Sylvie Kinigi	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1994	101
96	Melchior Ndadaye	🇧🇮 Burundi	1993–1993	103
97	Eduardo Rodríguez	🇧🇴 Bolivia	2005–2005	105
98	José María Pérez de Urdininea	🇧🇴 Bolivia	1828–1828	106
99	Alexander Schallenberg	🇦🇹 Austria	2021–2025 (2 terms)	108
100	Chris Watson	🇦🇺 Australia	1904–1904	113