Rankings · Switzerland
Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to Switzerland over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Oct 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.
Economy ministers
- Real GDP during each economy minister's tenureSECO's quarterly national accounts via Eurostat (namq_10_gdp, B1GQ, chain-linked volumes, reference year 2020, calendar and seasonally adjusted), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 1995; before, the FSO's yearly GDP at the previous year's prices (its long series, retropolated before 1995), rescaled to 1995
- Real GDP per person during each economy minister's tenureSECO's quarterly GDP via Eurostat (chained 2020 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the FSO's yearly GDP before 1995), over the FSO's average permanent resident population interpolated to the quarter
- Unemployment rate during each economy minister's tenureFSO, unemployment on the ILO's definition (the Swiss Labour Force Survey SAKE, yearly until 2009 with the quarters estimated by the FSO, quarterly since 2010), seasonally adjusted, quarterly from 1991
- Registered unemployment during each economy minister's tenureSECO, the jobless registered with the regional employment centres (RAV) over the labour force of the FSO's structural survey, monthly, as the FSO tabulates it (T 03.03.02.05, updated twice a year); the labour force is revised every few years, a small step in January
- Employment rate, 15 and over during each economy minister's tenureFSO, employment statistics and the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SAKE), the standardised employment rate of the permanent resident population aged 15 and over, not seasonally adjusted: the second quarter of each year from 1991 to 2009, every quarter since 2010
- People in work during each economy minister's tenureFSO, employment statistics (ETS), people working in Switzerland whatever their residence (the domestic concept: cross-border commuters and short-stay workers included), not seasonally adjusted, averaged over the trailing four quarters, from the second quarter of 1991 (when one hour's work a week began to count)
- Real wages during each economy minister's tenureFSO, Swiss Wage Index in real terms (wages from the accident insurance's statistics, deflated by the CPI), all industries, yearly from 1993
- Inflation (CPI) during each economy minister's tenureFSO (Federal Statistical Office), Swiss consumer price index (LIK), all items, change on the same month a year earlier as the FSO publishes it
- Consumer prices (CPI) during each economy minister's tenureFSO (Federal Statistical Office), Swiss consumer price index (LIK), all items, the FSO's longest index (June 1914 = 100) rebased to December 2025 = 100 (the FSO's base since the January 2026 index)
- House prices during each economy minister's tenureSwiss National Bank, residential property prices, via the BIS's residential property prices (WS_SPP, Q.CH.N.628), not adjusted for inflation, quarterly
- Rents during each economy minister's tenureFSO (Federal Statistical Office), Swiss consumer price index (LIK), the rent index, surveyed in May and November until 1993 and every quarter since August 1993, rebased to December 2025 = 100
- Exchange rate during each economy minister's tenureSwiss National Bank, foreign exchange rates, monthly averages (devkum, USD 1)
- Exchange rate against the euro during each economy minister's tenureSwiss National Bank, foreign exchange rates, monthly averages (devkum, EUR 1), from January 1999
- Government debt during each economy minister's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP: the Confederation, the cantons, the communes and the social insurances), calendar years, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate)
- Poverty rate during each economy minister's tenureFSO, Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), the share of the permanent resident population in private households below the poverty line derived from the social-assistance norms (SKOS), yearly from 2007; a survey, each year within about six tenths of a point
- Violent offences during each economy minister's tenureFSO, police crime statistics (PKS), violent offences under the Criminal Code (attempts included) recorded by the cantonal police, yearly from 2009 (the statistics' revised start), over the FSO's average permanent resident population
- Population during each economy minister's tenureFSO, the permanent resident population, the mean of 1 January and 31 December, from STAT-TAB (px-x-0102020000_201)
- Happiness during each economy minister's tenureWorld 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
- Government effectiveness during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Regulatory quality during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Rule of law during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Control of corruption during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Corruption perceptions index during each economy minister's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
- Voice and accountability during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Electoral democracy index during each economy minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Liberal democracy index during each economy minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Freedom of expression during each economy minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Political stability during each economy minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
Mayors
- Population during each mayor's tenureFSO, the commune's permanent resident population, the mean of 1 January and 31 December, from STAT-TAB (px-x-0102020000_201)
- Jobs in the city during each mayor's tenureFSO, Statistics on the structure of businesses (STATENT): jobs at workplaces in the commune, every sector, from the business register and the old-age insurance's records (STAT-TAB px-x-0602010000_102)
- Unemployment rate during each mayor's tenureEurostat city statistics (urb_clma): persons unemployed over the economically active population, the city's greater area as Eurostat defines it; the division is Politare's
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