The age of Joe Biden He remains the focus of much of the Democrats’ election campaign ahead of the US presidential election. But he is not the only ‘senior’ leader we have. If the current US president, on whom all the attention is focused due to his age, has 81 years old; his opponent, Donald Trump is only three years younger, that is, 78.

If we look at the rest of the world’s major powers, the numbers are repeated: In China, Russia or India, their leaders are over 70 years old.But this has not always been the case, since, if we look back 20 years ago, the average age of these leaders was 13 years younger than today: it was between 51 and 73 years old.

However, Joe Biden He is not the oldest president, at the moment the longest-serving democratic leader is Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, who is 83 years old. However, if we look back, we find more striking cases, such as that of Shimon Peres, who left the presidency of Israel at the age of 91; or Béji Caïd Essebsi, president-elect of Tunisia after the Arab Spring, who died at the age of 92 while still in office in the government.