Real GDP per person during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how real GDP per person 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	+46.8% 2000 → 2018	+2.2%/yr
2	UDPS Félix Tshisekedi	24 Jan 2019 – now	+14.5% 2018 → 2025	+2.0%/yr
3	N Laurent-Désiré Kabila	17 May 1997 – 17 Jan 2001	−25.7% 1996 → 2000	−7.2%/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 thousand per person, 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, over the population (World Bank, the UN's estimates; no census since 1984) · Democratic Republic of the Congo data · as of Oct 2026.