User:Vircum/List of Ghana heads of state by age

This is a list of Ghana Heads of state by age. This table can be sorted to display Heads of state of Ghana by order of office (OO), date of birth, age at ascension, length of retirement, date of death or lifespan. Age at ascension is determined by the day a head of state assumed office, not the day of the election.

Two measures of longevity are given; this is to allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each President. 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 President lived, and the days being the remaining number of days after his last birthday.

Statistics
Excluding Queen Elizabeth II are the native Ghanaian heads of state.
 * Queen Elizabeth II and Jerry Rawlings are the only living former heads of state.
 * Queen Elizabeth II is:
 * The first head of state in 1957.
 * The youngest person to become head of state at 30,.
 * The head of state with the "longest retirement" of 64 years, 14 days (or 0 days).
 * The oldest head of state still living at 98 years, 93 days.
 * Kwame Nkrumah is:
 * The first Ghanaian to be president when he assumed the presidency on Ghana becoming a republic.
 * The first president to die, when he died from cancer in Bucharest, Romania in 1972.
 * Joseph Arthur Ankrah is:
 * The first military head of state after the coup in 1966.
 * The longest lived head of state at 77,.
 * The Ghanaian head of state with the longest retirement at 8,638 days.
 * Edward Akufo-Addo is:
 * The president of earliest birth on June 26, 1906.
 * The oldest person to become head of state at the age of 64,.
 * The first head of state to die within Ghana.
 * Fred Akuffo is:
 * The head of state with the shortest retirement as he was executed 22 days after being overthrown in a coup d'etat.
 * The youngest head of state to die at 42,.
 * Jerry Rawlings is:
 * The head of state of most recent birth on June 22, 1947.
 * The youngest Ghanaian to become head of state at 31,.
 * The last military head of state after the coup in 1981.
 * The first African military ruler, who gained political legitimacy through the ballot-box and handed over power at the end of his mandate.
 * The youngest president still living at 77 years, 27 days.
 * The longest rule by a military head of state of 11,.
 * The one with the shortest term of office for a substantive head of state of 112 days in 1979.
 * The one with the longest term of office of 6,947 days (or 19, ), from 1981 to 2001. Adding his rule in 1979 makes it 7,059 days (or 19 years, 119 days) in all.
 * The first elected president to complete his term of office successfully.
 * John Kufuor is:
 * The oldest president still living at 85 years, 224 days.
 * On June 27, 2004, Kufuor became the oldest president still at post in Ghana surpassing Akufo-Addo's record of 65 years 201 days.
 * The first elected president to succeed another elected one through the ballot box.

Trivia

 * John Kufuor will surpass J. A. Ankrah as the longest lived president if he lives until March 17, 2016.
 * Jerry Rawlings will have the longest period of retirement if he lives to September 1, 2024.