List of youngest prime ministers

This is a list of youngest Prime Ministers after getting elected.

The youngest is William Pitt the Younger

Rank	Name	Age at start	Picture	Country
16	Rajiv Gandhi	40 years, 2 months, 11 days		India
15	Sergey Stanishev	39 years, 3 months, 12 days		Bulgaria
14	Jüri Ratas	38 years, 9 months, 21 days		Estonia
13	Paetongtarn Shinawatra	37 years, 11 months, 27 days		Thailand
12	Leo Varadkar	37 years, 11 months, 20 days		Ireland
11	Simon Harris	37 years, 5 months, 22 days		Ireland
10	Jacinda Ardern	37 years, 2 months, 23 days		New Zealand
9	Philip Dimitrov	36 years, 7 months, 7 days		Bulgaria
8	Zhan Videnov	35 years, 10 months, 3 days		Bulgaria
7	Sergey Kiriyenko	35 years, 7 months, 25 days		Russia
6	Benazir Bhutto	35 years, 5 months, 11 days		Pakistan
5	Oleksiy Honcharuk	35 years, 1 month, 22 days		Ukraine
4	Sanna Marin	34 years, 0 months, 25 days		Finland
3	Waldemar Pawlak	32 years, 8 months, 0 days		Poland
2	Sebastian Kurz	31 years, 1 month, 19 days		Austria
1	William Pitt the Younger	24 years, 0 months, 205 days		United Kingdom

Addendum and trivia

Waldemar Pawlak served as prime minister for 2 terms , in his last term, he was not so young but would still make it to the list, on top of Philip Dimitrov.

Other PMs

Name	Country	Age at start
Mart Laar	Estonia	32
Taavi Roivas	Estonia	35
Pandeli Majko and Ilir Meta	Albania	31 and 29

Related pages

• Lists of state leaders by age