List of prime ministers of Myanmar

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.

Titles

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

Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL)

Union Party (Clean AFPFL)

Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP)

Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)

Other affiliations

Military

Status

Chairman of government

No.	Portrait	Name (Lifespan)	Term of office	Political party	Ref.
Start	End	Duration
Union of Burma (1948–1974) [edit]
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	4 March 1974	12 years, 2 days	Military / Burma Socialist Programme Party
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974–1988) [edit]
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) [edit]
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	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) [edit]
The President is the Head of Government (30 March 2011 – 1 February 2021)
—		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]
13		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

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.

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.
^ Wai Moe (5 May 2010). "Tight Censorship on Reporting USDP". The Irrawaddy. Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
^ "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.

[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] Wai Moe (5 May 2010). "Tight Censorship on Reporting USDP". The Irrawaddy. Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.

[12] "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.

[13] "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.

[14] "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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v t e Prime ministers of Myanmar / Burma since 1948 (list)
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)	position abolished, 2011–21 Min Aung Hlaing† Nyo Saw
† indicate military officeholders.

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Titles

List of officeholders

Union of Burma (1948–1974)

Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974–1988)

Union of Burma / Myanmar (1988–2011)

Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011–present)

Timeline

See also

Notes

References

External links