Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the inflation (CPI) 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	N Laurent-Désiré Kabila	17 May 1997 – 17 Jan 2001	+38.1 pp Apr 1997 → Dec 2000	+10.4 pp/yr
2	UDPS Félix Tshisekedi	24 Jan 2019 – now	+1.7 pp Dec 2018 → Oct 2026	+0.2 pp/yr
3	Joseph Kabila	17 Jan 2001 – 24 Jan 2019	−460.3 pp Dec 2000 → Dec 2018	−25.6 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in pp; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. % change on a year earlier · Institut National de la Statistique consumer price index, change on the same month a year earlier: as the IMF compiles it to November 2012 (2010 left out: the IMF's index is re-based in January 2010 without a link), then as the Banque Centrale du Congo publishes it · Democratic Republic of the Congo data · as of Oct 2026.