Real GDP during each president's tenure

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

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Joseph Kabila	17 Jan 2001 – 24 Jan 2019	+162% 2000 → 2018	+5.5%/yr
2	UDPS Félix Tshisekedi	24 Jan 2019 – now	+43.5% 2018 → 2025	+5.3%/yr
3	N Laurent-Désiré Kabila	17 May 1997 – 17 Jan 2001	−17.2% 1996 → 2000	−4.6%/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 %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. FC trillion, 2005 prices · Banque Centrale du Congo, national accounts (real GDP at constant 2005 prices, as the bank publishes them on its statistics pages), yearly; the bank's figure for the current year, a projection, is left out · Democratic Republic of the Congo data · as of Oct 2026.