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Happiness during each head of government's tenure

Every head of government since 1991, ranked by how the happiness changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Edi Rama 15 Sep 2013 – now +0.70 steps 2013 → 2024+0.06 steps/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in steps; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. steps, 0 to 10 on the life ladder · World Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published · Albania data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: INSTAT, Institute of Statistics (labour force survey; national accounts and the county of Tirana's GDP via Eurostat; consumer prices via the IMF; the survey before 2023 via ILOSTAT), Bank of Albania (exchange rate, via the IMF), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (GDP before 1995, population), Eurostat (regional accounts), ILO (ILOSTAT), GISCO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; heads of government checked against the official lists, mayors of Tirana against the municipal election results and the municipality's acts. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy