South America

South America has 12 countries on TermClock. The average current leader has been in office 769 days (about 2.1 years). The longest-serving is Hugo Chávez of Guyana, at 2,280 days. By the Regimes of the World classification, 11 countries count as democracies and 1 as autocracies.

Country	Leader	Political system	Days in office
🇦🇷 Argentina	Javier Milei · President	Electoral democracy	1,055
🇧🇴 Bolivia	Rodrigo Paz · Prime Minister	Electoral democracy	356
🇧🇷 Brazil	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · President	Electoral democracy	1,398
🇨🇱 Chile	José Antonio Kast · President	Liberal democracy	233
🇨🇴 Colombia	Abelardo de la Espriella · President	Electoral democracy	84
🇪🇨 Ecuador	Daniel Noboa · President	Electoral democracy	1,072
🇬🇾 Guyana	Hugo Chávez · Prime Minister	Electoral democracy	2,280
🇵🇾 Paraguay	Santiago Peña Palacios · President	Electoral democracy	1,279
🇵🇪 Peru	Keiko Fujimori · President	Electoral democracy	94
🇸🇷 Suriname	Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · President	Electoral democracy	471
🇺🇾 Uruguay	Yamandú Orsi · President	Liberal democracy	608
🇻🇪 Venezuela	Delcy Rodriguez · President	Electoral autocracy	300

Regime classifications follow the Regimes of the World scheme (V-Dem), via Our World in Data.