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At 78 years and 7 months old, Donald Trump will become the oldest president in U.S. history on Inauguration Day.

donald trump will be sworn in He was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday.

The 78-year-old will begin his second term as president, becoming the oldest ever elected president. He will be five months older than Joe Biden, who previously held the record as the oldest president on Inauguration Day 2021.

In the explanation below, Al Jazeera visually displays how old all US presidents were on Inauguration Day, as well as how long they lived and served.

The oldest and youngest U.S. presidents

Donald J Trump was born in Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the end of World War II.

In 2017, the 70-year-old Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, becoming the oldest president to take office, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was about to turn 70 on Inauguration Day in 1981.

The average age of a U.S. president when he takes office is 57, a figure that has lasted from 1789, when the first president, George Washington, was 57.

The youngest U.S. president to take office was Theodore Roosevelt, who became president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley at the age of 42.

Longest-lived U.S. President

The longest-lived U.S. president is Jimmy Carter dead On December 29, 2024, he was 100 years old. After serving one term as president from 1977 to 1981, he lived for 43 years – longer than any other president.

Among the 41 presidents who have died, 6 lived to be over 90 years old, 5 lived between 80 and 90 years old, and the average age of death was 72 years old.

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President, had the shortest life span of all U.S. presidents. In 1963, he was assassinated at the age of 46.

longest serving us president

Prior to 1951, there were no formal limits on the terms of a U.S. president. The two-term limit was formalized by the 22nd Amendment, ratified on February 27, 1951, primarily in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office.

Roosevelt was the longest-serving president of the United States, serving for more than 12 years from 1933 to 1945. He died at the age of 63 during his fourth term.

Most U.S. presidents serve only one term, not two. Of the 46 presidents, only 15 have served two or more terms.

The shortest-serving president was William Henry Harrison, who died on April 4, 1841, just one month into his term.