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Employment rate, 15 and over during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the employment rate, 15 and over changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1NFP Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 8 Jun 2014 – now +2.7 pp Q1 2014 → Q2 2026+0.2 pp/yr
2FJP Mohamed Morsi 30 Jun 2012 – 4 Jul 2013 −0.3 pp Q1 2012 → Q2 2013−0.3 pp/yr
3N Mohamed Hussein Tantawi 11 Feb 2011 – 30 Jun 2012 −2.5 pp Q4 2010 → Q1 2012−2.0 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter 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. % of the population aged 15 and over · CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics), Labour Force Survey, quarterly, from CAPMAS's data API: the employed over the population aged 15 and over, CAPMAS's rate, from 2015; before it the same survey's microdata as ILOSTAT computes them (quarterly from 2008, 15 and over), which read about half a point to a point higher in 2015 · Egypt data · as of Aug 2026.

Sources: CAPMAS (Labour Force Survey from its data API; consumer prices via the IMF; population via the IMF's World Economic Outlook), Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (national accounts via the World Bank), Central Bank of Egypt (exchange rate via the IMF), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), ILO (ILOSTAT), Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; heads of state checked against the official lists. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy