Happiness during each Party Secretary's tenure
33 Party Secretaries and Chief Executives, ranked by how the happiness changed from their first day in office, next to China over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.
| # | Party Secretary | Country | In office | Total | vs China | Per year | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N Leung Chun-ying | Hong Kong | 1 Jul 2012 – 1 Jul 2017 | −0.09 steps 2011 → 2017 | — | −0.02 steps/yr | |
| 2 | N Carrie Lam | Hong Kong | 1 Jul 2017 – 1 Jul 2022 from 2017 | −0.11 steps 2017 → 2022 | — | −0.02 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); China is measured over the same months. 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 · special administrative region data · as of Jul 2025.