Thus, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, the fifth king of Bhutan, ascended the throne at the age of 27, after his father’s abdication in 2006.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inherited the reins of power from his father Kim Jong Il in 2011, when he was 28 or 29 years old (the actual year of his birth is not known outside of North Korea).
Yahya Jameh came to power in The Gambia during a coup in 1994, at which time he was legally elected president. He was 29 years old at the time.
Joseph Kabila became president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the age of 30. This occurred in 2001 after the death of his father Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the previous head of state.
Sebastian Kurz, who was Austria’s chancellor from 2017 to 2019 and from 2020 to 2021, headed the country’s government when he was 31 years old. And he came to the Cabinet even earlier: from 2013 to 2017 he headed the Department of Foreign Policy of the Republic.
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, was active in the country’s leadership during his father’s lifetime. And he officially led the country in 2013. At that time he was 33 years old.
At the same age, Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa became Prime Minister of Bahrain. This happened in 1970. He held the position of head of government for 50 years, until his death in 2020.
The next line of the rating is shared by several politicians, and Attal is now one of them. In addition to him, at the age of 34, Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023, became head of government, and Ibrahim Troare came to power after the 2022 coup in Burkina Faso.
