List of Prime Ministers of India by longevity

This is a list of Indian Prime Ministers by longevity. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to 7 December 2016.

Two measures of the longevity are given - this is to allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each Prime Minister. The first column is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; the second column breaks this number down into years and days, with the years being the number of whole years the Prime Minister lived, and the days being the remaining number of days after his/her last birthday.

Age of the Prime Ministers when assuming office is shown in this bar chart. It is not quite a bell curve (mean age is 64.62 years and is marked by red line).

If a Prime Minister served more than one non-consecutive term, the dates listed below are for the beginning of their first term, and the end of their final term.

The median age at which a Prime Minister first takes office is roughly 64 years and 8 months, which falls between Gulzarilal Nanda and Chandra Shekhar. The youngest person to become Prime Minister was Rajiv Gandhi, who became Prime Minister at the age of 40 years, 72 days. The oldest person to become Prime Minister was Morarji Desai, who became Prime Minister at the age of 81 years, 23 days.

The oldest living Prime Minister is Atal Bihari Vajpayee, born 25 December 1924 (aged 91 years, 348 days). The youngest living Prime Minister is the incumbent Narendra Modi, born 17 September 1950 (aged 66 years, 81 days).

The longest lived Prime Minister was Gulzarilal Nanda, who lived to the age of 99 years, 195 days. Morarji Desai was the second-longest lived Prime Minister, and the longest lived elected Prime Minister (Nanda, a cabinet minister, served as acting Prime Minister when both Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri died in office). Desai lived to the age of 99 years, 40 days, only 155 days short of matching Nanda. The shortest lived Prime Minister was Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated at the age of 46 years, 274 days.

Narendra Modi (17 September 1950) is the first Prime Minister of India to be born after the Independence of India. All other former Prime Ministers were born before the Independence of India. Before him, Rajiv Gandhi was the last born Prime Minister (20 August 1944), but he was assassinated in 1991.

Prime Ministers of India

#
 Prime Minister
 Date of birth
 Start date
of (first) term		 Age at beginning
of (first) term		 End date
of (final) term		 Total time
in office		 Date of death
 Lifespan
1 Jawaharlal Nehru 14 November 1889 15 August 1947 57 years, 274 days 27 May 1964[1] 6,130 days 27 May 1964 27,222 days (74 years, 195 days)
2 Lal Bahadur Shastri 2 October 1904 9 June 1964 59 years, 251 days 11 January 1966[1] 581 days 11 January 1966 22,381 days (61 years, 101 days)
3 Gulzarilal Nanda 4 July 1898 27 May 1964 65 years, 328 days 24 January 1966 26 days 15 January 1998 36,354 days (99 years, 195 days)
4 Indira Gandhi 19 November 1917 24 January 1966 48 years, 66 days 31 October 1984[1] 5,829 days 31 October 1984 24,453 days (66 years, 347 days)
5 Morarji Desai 29 February 1896 24 March 1977 81 years, 23 days 28 July 1979 856 days 10 April 1995 36,199 days (99 years, 40 days)
6 Charan Singh 23 December 1902 28 July 1979 76 years, 217 days 14 January 1980 170 days 29 May 1987 30,838 days (84 years, 157 days)
7 Rajiv Gandhi 20 August 1944 31 October 1984 40 years, 72 days 2 December 1989 1,858 days 21 May 1991 17,075 days (46 years, 274 days)
8 V. P. Singh 25 June 1931 2 December 1989 58 years, 160 days 10 November 1990 343 days 27 November 2008 28,280 days (77 years, 155 days)
9 Chandra Shekhar 1 July 1927 10 November 1990 63 years, 132 days 21 June 1991 223 days 8 July 2007 29,227 days (80 years, 7 days)
10 P. V. Narasimha Rao 28 June 1921 21 June 1991 69 years, 358 days 16 May 1996 1,791 days 23 December 2004 30,494 days (83 years, 178 days)
11 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 25 December 1924 16 May 1996 71 years, 143 days 22 May 2004 2,272 days 33,585 days (91 years, 348 days)
12 H. D. Deve Gowda 18 May 1933 1 June 1996 63 years, 14 days 21 April 1997 324 days 30,519 days (83 years, 203 days)
13 I. K. Gujral 4 December 1919 21 April 1997 77 years, 138 days 19 March 1998 332 days 30 November 2012 33,965 days (92 years, 362 days)
14 Manmohan Singh 26 September 1932 22 May 2004 71 years, 239 days 26 May 2014 3,656 days 30,753 days (84 years, 72 days)
15 Narendra Modi 17 September 1950 26 May 2014 63 years, 251 days 926 days 24,188 days (66 years, 81 days)
# Prime Minister Date of birth Start date
of (first) term		 Age at beginning
of first) term		 End date
of (final) term		 Total time
in office		 Date of death Lifespan

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Died in office on this date.
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