List of prime ministers of the Netherlands by age
This is a list of prime ministers of the Netherlands by longevity, age at ascension and age at leaving office.
Longest serving Prime Ministers
Nr. | Prime Minister | Term of office | Terms | Time in office | ||
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Ruud Lubbers (1939–2018) |
4 November 1982 | 22 August 1994 | 11 years, 291 days | |
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Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873–1936) |
9 September 1918 | 4 August 1925 | 6 years, 339 days | 10 years, 253 days |
10 August 1929 | 26 May 1933 | 3 years, 289 days | ||||
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Willem Drees (1886–1988) |
7 August 1948 | 22 December 1958 | 10 years, 137 days | |
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Mark Rutte (born 1967) |
14 October 2010 | Incumbent | 9 years, 247 days | |
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Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798–1872) |
1 November 1849 | 19 April 1853 | 3 years, 169 days | 9 years, 143 days |
1 February 1862 | 10 February 1866 | 4 years, 9 days | ||||
4 January 1871 | 4 June 1872 | 1 year, 152 days | ||||
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Jan Peter Balkenende (born 1956) |
22 July 2002 | 14 October 2010 | 8 years, 84 days | |
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Jan Heemskerk (1818–1897) |
27 August 1874 | 3 November 1877 | 3 years, 68 days | 8 years, 67 days |
23 April 1883 | 20 April 1888 | 4 years, 363 days | ||||
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Wim Kok (1938–2018) |
22 August 1994 | 22 July 2002 | 7 years, 334 days | |
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Hendrikus Colijn (1869–1944) |
4 August 1925 | 8 March 1926 | 216 days | 6 years, 292 days |
26 May 1933 | 10 August 1939 | 6 years, 76 days | ||||
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Theo Heemskerk (1852–1932) |
12 February 1908 | 29 August 1913 | 5 years, 198 days | |
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Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846–1935) |
29 August 1913 | 9 September 1918 | 5 years, 13 days | |
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Dries van Agt (born 1931) |
19 December 1977 | 4 November 1982 | 4 years, 320 days | |
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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885–1961) |
3 September 1940 | 25 June 1945 | 4 years, 285 days | |
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Joop den Uyl (1919–1987) |
11 May 1973 | 19 December 1977 | 4 years, 222 days | |
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Dirk Jan de Geer (1870–1960) |
8 March 1926 | 10 August 1929 | 3 years, 155 days | 4 years, 189 days |
10 August 1939 | 13 September 1940 | 1 year, 34 days | ||||
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Piet de Jong (1915–2016) |
5 April 1967 | 6 July 1971 | 4 years, 92 days | |
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Jan de Quay (1901–1985) |
19 May 1959 | 24 July 1963 | 4 years, 66 days | |
Longevity
Yellow indicates a living (former) Prime Minister.
Prime Minister | Born | Died | Longevity | Known reason of death |
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Willem Drees | 5 July 1886 | 14 May 1988 | 101 years, 314 days | Natural causes |
Piet de Jong | 3 April 1915 | 27 July 2016 | 101 years, 115 days | Natural causes |
Dirk Jan de Geer | 14 December 1870 | 28 November 1960 | 89 years, 350 days | Natural causes |
Dries van Agt | 2 February 1931 | Alive | 89 years, 136 days | |
Pieter Cort van der Linden | 14 May 1846 | 15 July 1935 | 89 years, 62 days | Natural causes |
Jan de Quay | 26 August 1901 | 4 July 1985 | 83 years, 312 days | Natural causes |
Jelle Zijlstra | 27 August 1918 | 23 December 2001 | 83 years, 118 days | Neurological disorder |
Abraham Kuyper | 29 October 1837 | 8 November 1920 | 83 years, 10 days | Disease-related |
Willem Schermerhorn | 17 December 1894 | 10 March 1977 | 82 years, 83 days | |
Gerrit de Vries | 22 February 1818 | 4 March 1900 | 82 years, 10 days | |
Barend Biesheuvel | 5 April 1920 | 29 April 2001 | 81 years, 24 days | Cardiovascular disease |
Wim Kok | 29 September 1938 | 20 October 2018 | 80 years, 21 days | Heart failure |
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte | 22 March 1822 | 3 March 1902 | 79 years, 346 days | |
Theo Heemskerk | 20 July 1852 | 12 June 1932 | 79 years, 328 days | |
Jan Heemskerk | 30 July 1818 | 9 October 1897 | 79 years, 71 days | |
Ruud Lubbers | 7 May 1939 | 14 February 2018 | 78 years, 283 days | Disease-related |
Jacob de Kempenaer | 6 July 1793 | 12 February 1870 | 76 years, 221 days | |
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy | 13 April 1885 | 7 September 1961 | 76 years, 147 days | |
Hendrikus Colijn | 22 June 1869 | 18 September 1944 | 75 years, 88 days | Heart failure |
Floris Adriaan van Hall | 15 May 1791 | 29 March 1866 | 74 years, 318 days | |
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 19 August 1819 | 1 July 1894 | 74 years, 316 days | |
Louis Beel | 12 April 1902 | 11 February 1977 | 74 years, 305 days | Leukemia |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke | 14 January 1798 | 4 June 1872 | 74 years, 142 days | Pneumonia |
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 29 June 1816 | 4 November 1890 | 74 years, 128 days | |
Gijsbert van Tienhoven | 12 February 1841 | 10 October 1914 | 73 years, 240 days | |
Jan Jacob Rochussen | 23 October 1797 | 21 January 1871 | 73 years, 90 days | |
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello | 2 October 1822 | 28 July 1895 | 72 years, 299 days | |
Aeneas Mackay | 29 November 1838 | 13 November 1909 | 70 years, 349 days | |
Nicolaas Pierson | 7 February 1839 | 24 December 1909 | 70 years, 320 days | |
Joan Röell | 21 July 1844 | 13 July 1914 | 69 years, 357 days | |
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck | 25 February 1794 | 6 October 1863 | 69 years, 223 days | |
Pieter Philip van Bosse | 16 December 1809 | 21 February 1879 | 69 years, 67 days | |
Joop den Uyl | 9 August 1919 | 24 December 1987 | 68 years, 137 days | Brain tumor |
Theo de Meester | 16 December 1851 | 27 December 1919 | 68 years, 11 days | |
Jan Peter Balkenende | 7 May 1956 | Alive | 64 years, 41 days | |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck | 1 December 1873 | 17 April 1936 | 62 years, 138 days | Disease-related |
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg | 24 February 1826 | 18 November 1885 | 59 years, 267 days | |
Justinus van der Brugghen | 6 August 1804 | 2 October 1863 | 59 years, 57 days | Disease-related |
Victor Marijnen | 21 February 1917 | 5 April 1975 | 58 years, 43 days | Myocardial infarction |
Jo Cals | 18 July 1914 | 30 December 1971 | 57 years, 165 days | Brain tumor |
Schelto van Heemstra | 14 November 1807 | 20 December 1864 | 57 years, 36 days | Disease-related |
Mark Rutte | 14 February 1967 | Alive | 53 years, 124 days | |
Age at ascension
Yellow indicates the incumbent Prime Minister.
Prime Minister | Term | Age at ascension |
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Ruud Lubbers | 1982–1994 | 43 years, 181 days |
Mark Rutte | 2010–Incumbent | 43 years, 242 days |
Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte | 1866 | 43 years, 325 days |
Louis Beel (1st) | 1946–1948 | 44 years, 82 days |
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 1861 | 44 years, 258 days |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1st) | 1918–1925 | 44 years, 282 days |
Jan Peter Balkenende | 2002–2010 | 46 years, 76 days |
Victor Marijnen | 1963–1965 | 46 years, 153 days |
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 1866–1868 | 46 years, 286 days |
Dries van Agt | 1977–1982 | 46 years, 320 days |
Jelle Zijlstra | 1966–1967 | 48 years, 87 days |
Aeneas Mackay | 1888–1891 | 48 years, 143 days |
Joan Röell | 1894–1897 | 49 years, 292 days |
Willem Schermerhorn | 1945–1946 | 50 years, 189 days |
Gijsbert van Tienhoven | 1891–1894 | 50 years, 190 days |
Jo Cals | 1965–1966 | 50 years, 270 days |
Barend Biesheuvel | 1971–1973 | 51 years, 62 days |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1st) | 1849–1853 | 51 years, 291 days |
Justinus van der Brugghen | 1856–1858 | 51 years, 300 days |
Piet de Jong | 1967–1971 | 52 years, 2 days |
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg | 1879–1883 | 53 years, 177 days |
Theo de Meester | 1905–1908 | 53 years, 244 days |
Joop den Uyl | 1973–1977 | 53 years, 275 days |
Jan Heemskerk (1st) | 1874–1877 | 53 years, 342 days |
Schelto van Heemstra | 1861–1862 | 53 years, 361 days |
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck | 1848 | 54 years, 29 days |
Gerrit de Vries | 1872–1874 | 54 years, 103 days |
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello | 1877–1879 | 55 years, 32 days |
Dirk Jan de Geer (1st) | 1926–1929 | 55 years, 84 days |
Jacob de Kempenaer | 1848–1849 | 55 years, 138 days |
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy | 1940–1945 | 55 years, 143 days |
Theo Heemskerk | 1908–1913 | 55 years, 207 days |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (2nd) | 1929–1933 | 55 years, 252 days |
Wim Kok | 1994–2002 | 55 years, 327 days |
Hendrikus Colijn (1st) | 1925–1926 | 56 years, 43 days |
Louis Beel (2nd) | 1958–1959 | 56 years, 254 days |
Jan de Quay | 1959–1963 | 57 years, 266 days |
Nicolaas Pierson | 1897–1901 | 58 years, 170 days |
Pieter Philip van Bosse | 1868–1871 | 58 years, 171 days |
Jan Jacob Rochussen | 1858–1860 | 60 years, 146 days |
Floris Adriaan van Hall (1st) | 1853–1856 | 61 years, 339 days |
Willem Drees | 1948–1958 | 62 years, 33 days |
Abraham Kuyper | 1901–1905 | 63 years, 276 days |
Hendrikus Colijn (2nd) | 1933–1939 | 63 years, 338 days |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (2nd) | 1862–1866 | 64 years, 18 days |
Jan Heemskerk (2nd) | 1883–1888 | 64 years, 267 days |
Pieter Cort van der Linden | 1913–1918 | 67 years, 107 days |
Dirk Jan de Geer (2nd) | 1939–1940 | 68 years, 239 days |
Floris Adriaan van Hall (2nd) | 1860–1861 | 68 years, 284 days |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (3rd) | 1871–1872 | 72 years, 355 days |
Age at leaving office
Yellow indicates the incumbent Prime Minister.
Prime Minister | Term | Age at leaving office | Note(s) |
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Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte | 1866 | 44 years, 71 days | |
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 1861 | 45 years, 134 days | |
Louis Beel (1st) | 1946–1948 | 46 years, 117 days | |
Victor Marijnen | 1963–1965 | 48 years, 52 days | |
Jelle Zijlstra | 1966–1967 | 48 years, 221 days | |
Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt | 1866–1868 | 48 years, 290 days | |
Willem Schermerhorn | 1945–1946 | 51 years, 198 days | |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1st) | 1918–1925 | 51 years, 246 days | |
Aeneas Mackay | 1888–1891 | 51 years, 265 days | |
Dries van Agt | 1977–1982 | 51 years, 275 days | |
Jo Cals | 1965–1966 | 52 years, 127 days | |
Joan Röell | 1894–1897 | 53 years, 6 days | |
Barend Biesheuvel | 1971–1973 | 53 years, 36 days | |
Mark Rutte | 2010–Incumbent | 53 years, 124 days | |
Justinus van der Brugghen | 1856–1858 | 53 years, 224 days | |
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck | 1848 | 54 years, 52 days | |
Gijsbert van Tienhoven | 1891–1894 | 53 years, 86 days | |
Schelto van Heemstra | 1861–1862 | 54 years, 79 days | |
Jan Peter Balkenende | 2002–2010 | 54 years, 160 days | |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1st) | 1849–1853 | 55 years, 95 days | |
Ruud Lubbers | 1982–1994 | 55 years, 107 days | |
Jan Heemskerk (1st) | 1874–1877 | 56 years, 28 days | |
Theo de Meester | 1905–1908 | 56 years, 58 days | |
Piet de Jong | 1967–1971 | 56 years, 94 days | |
Jacob de Kempenaer | 1848–1849 | 56 years, 117 days | |
Gerrit de Vries | 1872–1874 | 56 years, 186 days | |
Hendrikus Colijn (1st) | 1925–1926 | 56 years, 259 days | |
Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello | 1877–1879 | 56 years, 322 days | |
Louis Beel (2nd) | 1958–1959 | 57 years, 37 days | |
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg | 1879–1883 | 57 years, 58 days | |
Joop den Uyl | 1973–1977 | 58 years, 132 days | |
Dirk Jan de Geer (1st) | 1926–1929 | 58 years, 239 days | |
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (2nd) | 1929–1933 | 59 years, 176 days | |
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy | 1940–1945 | 60 years, 72 days | |
Pieter Philip van Bosse | 1868–1871 | 61 years, 19 days | |
Theo Heemskerk | 1908–1913 | 61 years, 40 days | |
Jan de Quay | 1959–1963 | 61 years, 335 days | |
Jan Jacob Rochussen | 1858–1860 | 62 years, 123 days | |
Nicolaas Pierson | 1897–1901 | 62 years, 174 days | |
Wim Kok | 1994–2002 | 63 years, 296 days | |
Floris Adriaan van Hall (1st) | 1853–1856 | 65 years, 47 days | |
Abraham Kuyper | 1901–1905 | 67 years, 292 days | |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (2nd) | 1862–1866 | 68 years, 27 days | |
Dirk Jan de Geer (2nd) | 1939–1940 | 69 years, 264 days | |
Jan Heemskerk (2nd) | 1883–1888 | 69 years, 265 days | |
Floris Adriaan van Hall (2nd) | 1860–1861 | 69 years, 303 days | |
Hendrikus Colijn (2nd) | 1933–1939 | 70 years, 49 days | |
Pieter Cort van der Linden | 1913–1918 | 72 years, 118 days | |
Willem Drees | 1948–1958 | 72 years, 170 days | |
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (3rd) | 1871–1872 | 74 years, 142 days | Died in office |
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