List of prime ministers of Myanmar
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- Top left: U Nu was the first prime minister of the Union of Burma.
- Top right: Ne Win was the longest-serving prime minister who turned the Union into military dictatorship.
- Bottom left: Thein Sein was considered as a reformist leader in the post-junta government.
- Botton right: Nyo Saw was the last-serving prime minister.
This article lists the prime ministers and heads of government of Myanmar (Burma) since the Burmese Declaration of Independence in 1948; it excludes the post-2011 presidents who are both the head of state and head of government according to the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar.
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| 1948–1962; 1974–2011; 2021–2026 | Prime Minister (နိုင်ငံတော်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်) |
| 1962 | Chairman of the State Revolutionary Government (နိုင်ငံတော်တော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) |
| 1962–1974 | Chairman of the Revolutionary Government of the Union of Burma (ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) |
| 2021–2025 | Chairman of the State Administration Council (နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) |
| 2021 | Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်အိမ်စောင့်အစိုးရအဖွဲ့နိုင်ငံတော်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်) |
List of officeholders
- Political parties
- Other affiliations
- Status
Chairman of government
| No. | Portrait | Name (Lifespan) |
Term of office | Political party | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | ||||||
Union of Burma (1948–1974) | ||||||||
| 1 | .jpg) |
U Nu ဦးနု (1907–1995) |
4 January 1948 | 12 June 1956 (Resigned) |
8 years, 160 days | Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | ||
| 2 |  |
Ba Swe ဘဆွေ (1915–1987) |
12 June 1956 | 1 March 1957 | 262 days | Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | ||
| (1) | |
U Nu ဦးနု (1907–1995) |
1 March 1957 | 29 October 1958[a] | 1 year, 242 days | Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League | ||
| 3 |  |
Ne Win နေဝင်း (1911–2002) |
29 October 1958 | 4 April 1960[b] | 1 year, 158 days | Military | ||
| (1) | |
U Nu ဦးနု (1907–1995) |
4 April 1960 | 2 March 1962 (Deposed in a coup) |
1 year, 332 days | Union Party (Clean Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League) |
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| — | |
Ne Win နေဝင်း (1911–2002) |
2 March 1962 | 4 March 1974 | 12 years, 2 days | Military / Burma Socialist Programme Party |
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Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974–1988) | ||||||||
| 4 |  |
Sein Win စိန်ဝင်း (1919–1993) |
4 March 1974 | 29 March 1977[c] | 3 years, 25 days | Burma Socialist Programme Party | ||
| 5 | |
Maung Maung Kha မောင်မောင်ခ (1920–1995) |
29 March 1977 | 26 July 1988 (Resigned) |
11 years, 119 days | Burma Socialist Programme Party | ||
| 6 | |
Tun Tin ထွန်းတင် (1920–2020) |
26 July 1988 | 18 September 1988 (Deposed in a coup) |
54 days | Burma Socialist Programme Party | [1] | |
Union of Burma / Myanmar (1988–2011) | ||||||||
| 7 | |
Saw Maung စောမောင် (1928–1997) |
21 September 1988 | 23 April 1992 (Deposed)[d] |
3 years, 215 days | Military | [2][3][4] | |
| 8 | .jpg) |
Than Shwe သန်းရွှေ (born 1933) |
23 April 1992 | 25 August 2003 | 11 years, 124 days | Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association |
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| 9 |  |
Khin Nyunt ခင်ညွန့် (born 1939) |
25 August 2003 | 18 October 2004 (Deposed) |
1 year, 54 days | Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association |
[5] | |
| 10 |  |
Soe Win စိုးဝင်း (1947–2007) |
19 October 2004 | 12 October 2007 (Died in office) |
2 years, 358 days | Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association |
[6] | |
| 11 |  |
Thein Sein သိန်းစိန် (born 1945) |
12 October 2007 | 7 November 2010 | 3 years, 26 days | Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association (until 29 April 2010) |
[7] | |
| Union Solidarity and Development Party (from 8 June 2010) | ||||||||
| Position vacant (7 November 2010 – 30 March 2011) | ||||||||
Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011–present) | ||||||||
| The President is the Head of Government (30 March 2011 – 1 February 2021) | ||||||||
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Min Aung Hlaing မင်းအောင်လှိုင် (born 1956) |
1 February 2021 | 1 August 2021 | 181 days | Military | ||
| 12 | 1 August 2021 | 31 July 2025 | 3 years, 364 days | [8][9] | ||||
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Nyo Saw ညိုစော (born ?) |
31 July 2025 | 10 April 2026 | 253 days | Union Solidarity and Development Party | [10] | |
| The President is the Head of Government (10 April 2026 – present) | ||||||||
Timeline
See also
- Politics of Myanmar
- History of Myanmar
- List of Burmese monarchs
- List of heads of state of Myanmar
- List of colonial governors of Burma
- List of premiers of British Burma
- President of Myanmar
- Vice-President of Myanmar
- Prime Minister of Myanmar
- Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar
- State Counsellor of Myanmar
- Chairman of the State Administration Council
