List of Asian State Leaders 2021

This page shows a list of all Asian state leaders in 2021. Of the 43 countries in Asia, seven are ruled by monarchs. Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are governed by a Sheikh. Saudi Arabia and Jordan have a king as their heads of state that controls either the legislative or executive branch of the country. The countries of Bhutan, Cambodia, Japan, Malysia and Thailand also have a monarch but with limited powers and not in the function of a state leader.

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List of Asian heads of government 2021

By default, the list shows all Asian countries alphabetically. You can also click on the table header to change the order. The list of all official presidents or state leaders in Asia was last updated in November 2020.

CountryHead of State (November 2020)
AfghanistanAshraf Ghani
BahrainSheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
BangladeshSheikh Hasina
BhutanLotay Tshering
BruneiHassanal Bolkiah
CambodiaHun Sen
ChinaXi Jinping
IndiaNarendra Modi
IndonesiaJoko Widodo
IranAli Khamenei
IraqMustafa Al-Kadhimi
IsraelBenjamin Netanyahu
JapanYoshihide Suga
JordanAbdullah II
KazakhstanQasym-Zhomart Toqaev
KuwaitSheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
KyrgyzstanSadyr Japarov
LaosBounnhang Vorachith
LebanonHassan Diab
MalaysiaMuhyiddin Yassin
MaldivesIbrahim Mohamed Solih
MongoliaKhaltmaagiin Battulga
MyanmarWin Myint
NepalKhadga Prasad Oli
North KoreaKim Jong-un
OmanHaitham bin Tariq
PakistanImran Khan
PhilippinesRodrigo Duterte
QatarSheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Saudi ArabiaSalman
SingaporeLee Hsien Loong
South KoreaMoon Jae-in
Sri LankaGotabaya Rajapaksa
State of PalestineMahmoud Abbas
SyriaBashar al-Assad
TaiwanTsai Ing-wen
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon
ThailandPrayut Chan-o-cha
TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
United Arab EmiratesSheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
UzbekistanShavkat Mirziyoyev
VietnamNguyễn Phú Trọng
YemenAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

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List of Asian State Leaders 2021

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