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

List of Prime Ministers of India by longevityFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of Indian Prime Ministers by longevity. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity iscalculated 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 lifeof each Prime Minister. The first column is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing forleap days; the second column breaks this number down into years and days, with the years being the number of wholeyears 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 onenon­consecutive term, the dates listed beloware for the beginning of their first term, andthe end of their final term.

The median age at which a Prime Ministerfirst takes office is roughly 64 years and 8months, which falls between GulzarilalNanda and Chandra Shekhar. The youngestperson to become Prime Minister was RajivGandhi, who became Prime Minister at theage of 40 years, 72 days. The oldest personto become Prime Minister was MorarjiDesai, who became Prime Minister at theage of 81 years, 23 days.

The oldest living Prime Minister is AtalBihari Vajpayee, born 25 December 1924 (aged 91 years, 305 days). The youngest living Prime Minister is theincumbent 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 wasthe second­longest lived Prime Minister, and the longest lived elected Prime Minister (Nanda, a cabinet minister, servedas acting Prime Minister when both Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri died in office). Desai lived to the age of99 years, 40 days, only 155 days short of matching Nanda. The shortest lived Prime Minister was Rajiv Gandhi, whowas 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. Allother former Prime Ministers were born before the Independence of India. Before him, Rajiv Gandhi was the last bornPrime Minister (20 August 1944), but he was assassinated in 1991.

Prime Ministers of India

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# PrimeMinister

Date ofbirth

Start dateof (first) term

Age atbeginningof (first)term

End dateof (final) term

Totaltimein

office

Date ofdeath Lifespan# Prime

MinisterDate ofbirth

Start dateof (first) term

Age atbeginningof (first)term

End dateof (final) term

Totaltimein

office

Date ofdeath Lifespan

1 JawaharlalNehru

14November1889

15 August 1947 57 years,274 days 27 May 1964[1] 6,130

days27 May1964

27,222 days(74 years,195 days)

2LalBahadurShastri

2 October1904 9 June 1964 59 years,

251 days 11 January 1966[1] 581days

11January1966

22,381 days(61 years,101 days)

3 GulzarilalNanda

4 July1898 27 May 1964 65 years,

328 days 24 January 1966 26 days15January1998

36,354 days(99 years,195 days)

4 IndiraGandhi

19November1917

24 January 1966 48 years,66 days 31 October 1984[1] 5,829

days

31October1984

24,453 days(66 years,347 days)

5 MorarjiDesai

29February1896

24 March 1977 81 years,23 days 28 July 1979 856

days10 April1995

36,199 days(99 years,40 days)

6 CharanSingh

23December1902

28 July 1979 76 years,217 days 14 January 1980 170

days29 May1987

30,838 days(84 years,157 days)

7 RajivGandhi

20 August1944 31 October 1984 40 years,

72 days 2 December 1989 1,858days

21 May1991

17,075 days(46 years,274 days)

8 V. P. Singh 25 June1931 2 December 1989 58 years,

160 days 10 November 1990 343days

27November2008

28,280 days(77 years,155 days)

9 ChandraShekhar

1 July1927 10 November 1990 63 years,

132 days 21 June 1991 223days

8 July2007

29,227 days(80 years,7 days)

10P. V.NarasimhaRao

28 June1921 21 June 1991 69 years,

358 days 16 May 1996 1,791days

23December2004

30,494 days(83 years,178 days)

11 Atal BihariVajpayee

25December1924

16 May 1996 71 years,143 days 22 May 2004 2,272

days

33,542 days(91 years,305 days)

12 H. D. DeveGowda

18 May1933 1 June 1996 63 years,

14 days 21 April 1997 324days

30,476 days(83 years,160 days)

13 I. K. Gujral4December1919

21 April 1997 77 years,138 days 19 March 1998 332

days

30November2012

33,965 days(92 years,362 days)

14 ManmohanSingh

26September1932

22 May 2004 71 years,239 days 26 May 2014 3,656

days

30,710 days(84 years,29 days)

15 NarendraModi

17September1950

26 May 2014 63 years,251 days

883days

24,145 days(66 years,38 days)

# PrimeMinister

Date ofbirth

Start dateof (first) term

Age atbeginningof first)term

End dateof (final) term

Totaltime

in office

Date ofdeath Lifespan

See also

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Prime Ministers of India

References1. Died in office on this date.

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