List of Prime Ministers of India

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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).
List of Prime Ministers of India by longevity
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This is a list of Indian Prime Ministers by longevity. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is
calculated up to 25 October 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.
If a Prime Minister served more than one
non­consecutive 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, 305 days). The youngest living Prime Minister is the
incumbent Narendra Modi, born 17 September 1950 (aged 66 years, 38 days).
The longest lived Prime Minister was Gulzarilal Nanda, who lived to the age of 99 years, 195 days. Morarji Desai was
the second­longest 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

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#
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#
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
33,542 days
(91 years,
305 days)
12
H. D. Deve
Gowda
18 May
1933
1 June 1996
63 years,
14 days
21 April 1997
324
days
30,476 days
(83 years,
160 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
30,710 days
(84 years,
29 days)
15
Narendra
Modi
17
September
1950
26 May 2014
63 years,
251 days
883
days
24,145 days
(66 years,
38 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

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Prime Ministers of India
References
1. Died in office on this date.
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