1000 state leaders - Events of 1001 - 1002 state leaders - State leaders by year
Africa
Asia
- China (Liao Dynasty) - Sheng Zong, Emperor of Liao China (982-1031)
- China (Song Dynasty) - Zhenzong, Emperor of Song China (997-1022)
- Japan - Ichijo, Emperor of Japan (986-1011)
- Iraq - Baha ud-Dawla Abu Nasr Fairuz, Buwayhid Protector of the Caliphate at Baghdad (990-1013)
- Iraq - Al-Qadir, Abbasid Caliph (991 - 1031)
Europe
- al-Andalus - Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad Caliph (724-743)
- Denmark - Sweyn I "Forkbeard", King of Denmark (987-1014)
- Eastern Roman Empire - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (976-1025)
- England - Ethelred II the Unready, King of England (978-1013, 1014-1016)
- France - Robert II the Pious, King of France (996-1031)
- Holy Roman Empire - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (983-1002)
- Holy See - Silvester II, Pope (999-1003)
- Hungary - Stephen I the Great, King of Hungary (997-1038)
- Kievan Rus' - Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev (980-1015)
- Norway - Sweyn I "Forkbeard", King of Norway (999-1015)
- Scotland - Kenneth III, King of Scotland (997-1005)
- Sweden - Olof the Tax-king, King of Sweden (995-1022)