List of heads of government of Myanmar since 1948

Top left: U Nu was the first prime minister of the Union of Burma.
Top right: Ne Win was the longest-serving head of government 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 heads of government of Myanmar (Burma) since the Burmese Declaration of Independence in 1948, including the prime ministers, government chairpersons and post-2011 presidents who have led the government (cabinet).

Titles

Period	Position
1948–1962; 1974–2011; 2025–2026	Prime Minister (နိုင်ငံတော်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်)
1962–1974	Chairman of the State Revolutionary Government (နိုင်ငံတော်တော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) Chairman of the Revolutionary Government of the Union of Burma (ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်လှန်ရေးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ)
2011–2021; 2026–present	President (နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ)
2021–2025	Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services (တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်) Additional titles: Chairman of the State Administration Council (နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဥက္ကဋ္ဌ) (assumed on 2 February 2021) Prime Minister (နိုင်ငံတော်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်) (assumed on 1 August 2021)

List of officeholders

Political parties

Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL)

Union Party (Clean AFPFL)

Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP)

Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)

National League for Democracy (NLD)

Other affiliations

Military

Status

Prime minister

Chairman of government

President

Acting president

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

No.	Portrait	Name (Lifespan)	Term of office			Political party		Ref.
No.	Portrait	Name (Lifespan)	Start	End	Duration	Political party		Ref.

1		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)
—		Ne Win နေဝင်း (1911–2002)	2 March 1962	2 March 1974	12 years		Military / Burma Socialist Programme Party
Position vacant; power was handed to Pyithu Hluttaw (2 – 4 March 1974)

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]
Position vacant (18 – 21 September 1988)

7		Saw Maung စောမောင် (1928–1997)	21 September 1988	23 April 1992 (Deposed)^[d]	3 years, 215 days		Military	^[2]^[3]^[4]
8		Than Shwe သန်းရွှေ (born 1933)	23 April 1992	25 August 2003	11 years, 124 days		Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association
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	30 March 2011	3 years, 169 days		Military / Union Solidarity and Development Association (until 29 April 2010)	^[7]
11		Thein Sein သိန်းစိန် (born 1945)	12 October 2007	30 March 2011	3 years, 169 days		Union Solidarity and Development Party (from 8 June 2010)	^[7]

—		Thein Sein သိန်းစိန် (born 1945)	30 March 2011	30 March 2016	5 years		Union Solidarity and Development Party	^[8]
—		Htin Kyaw ထင်ကျော် (born 1946)	30 March 2016	21 March 2018 (Resigned)	1 year, 356 days		National League for Democracy	^[9]
—		Myint Swe မြင့်ဆွေ (1951–2025)	21 March 2018	30 March 2018	9 days		Union Solidarity and Development Party
—		Win Myint ဝင်းမြင့် (born 1951)	30 March 2018	1 February 2021 (Deposed in a coup)	2 years, 308 days		National League for Democracy	^[10]
—		Min Aung Hlaing မင်းအောင်လှိုင် (born 1956)	1 February 2021	1 August 2021	181 days		Military
12		Min Aung Hlaing မင်းအောင်လှိုင် (born 1956)	1 August 2021	31 July 2025	3 years, 364 days		Military	^[11]^[12]
13		Nyo Saw ညိုစော (born ?)	31 July 2025	10 April 2026	253 days		Union Solidarity and Development Party	^[13]
—		Min Aung Hlaing မင်းအောင်လှိုင် (born 1956)	10 April 2026	Incumbent	139 days		Independent^[e]

Timeline

Notes

↑ Handed over power to the military.
↑ Handed back power to the civilian government after the 1960 general election.
↑ Removed from office due to the economic problems of the country.
↑ Resigned for health reasons, de facto deposed by rival generals.
↑ Close to the Union Solidarity and Development Party.

References

↑ "Burmese Military Officially Takes Reins Of Power". The New York Times. 19 September 1988.
↑ "Burmese Military Ousts Chief, Citing Illness". The New York Times. 24 April 1992.
↑ "Saw Maung Is Dead at 68; Led a Brutal Burmese Coup". The New York Times. 27 July 1997.
↑ Wheeler, Ned (28 July 1997). "Obituary: General Saw Maung". The Independent. London.
↑ "Burma's prime minister 'arrested'". BBC News. 19 October 2004.
↑ "Burma prime minister Soe Win dies". BBC News. 12 October 2007.
↑ "Historical Image : Chronology of Prime Ministers". National Archives of Myanmar. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
↑ "President sworn in, junta dissolved- DVB Multimedia Group". Dvb.no. 30 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
↑ "Myanmar Lawmakers Name Htin Kyaw President, Affirming Civilian Rule". The New York Times. 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
↑ "Myanmar elects Win Myint as new president". Deutsche Welle. 28 March 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
↑ "Myanmar military leader takes new title of prime minister in caretaker government – state media". Reuters. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
↑ "Myanmar army ruler takes prime minister role, again pledges elections". Reuters. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
↑ "Myanmar junta lifts emergency rules, paving way for elections". The Straits Times. 31 July 2025. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 31 July 2025.

External links

World Statesmen – Myanmar (Burma)

[1] Handed over power to the military.

[2] Handed back power to the civilian government after the 1960 general election.

[3] Removed from office due to the economic problems of the country.

[5] Resigned for health reasons, de facto deposed by rival generals.

[18] Close to the Union Solidarity and Development Party.

[4] "Burmese Military Officially Takes Reins Of Power". The New York Times. 19 September 1988.

[6] "Burmese Military Ousts Chief, Citing Illness". The New York Times. 24 April 1992.

[7] "Saw Maung Is Dead at 68; Led a Brutal Burmese Coup". The New York Times. 27 July 1997.

[8] Wheeler, Ned (28 July 1997). "Obituary: General Saw Maung". The Independent. London.

[9] "Burma's prime minister 'arrested'". BBC News. 19 October 2004.

[10] "Burma prime minister Soe Win dies". BBC News. 12 October 2007.

[11] "Historical Image : Chronology of Prime Ministers". National Archives of Myanmar. Retrieved 6 August 2026.

[12] "President sworn in, junta dissolved- DVB Multimedia Group". Dvb.no. 30 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

[13] "Myanmar Lawmakers Name Htin Kyaw President, Affirming Civilian Rule". The New York Times. 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.

[14] "Myanmar elects Win Myint as new president". Deutsche Welle. 28 March 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.

[15] "Myanmar military leader takes new title of prime minister in caretaker government – state media". Reuters. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

[16] "Myanmar army ruler takes prime minister role, again pledges elections". Reuters. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

[17] "Myanmar junta lifts emergency rules, paving way for elections". The Straits Times. 31 July 2025. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 31 July 2025.

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Heads of government of Myanmar / Burma since 1948
Union of Burma (1948–1962)	U Nu Ba Swe U Nu Ne Win† U Nu
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1962–1988)	Ne Win† Sein Win† Maung Maung Kha† Tun Tin
Union of Burma / Myanmar (1988–2011)	Saw Maung† Than Shwe† Khin Nyunt† Soe Win† Thein Sein†
Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011–present)	Thein Sein Htin Kyaw Myint Swe* Win Myint Min Aung Hlaing† Nyo Saw Min Aung Hlaing
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