Unemployment rate during each president's tenure
Every president since 1991, ranked by how the unemployment rate 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 Mohamed Hussein Tantawi | 11 Feb 2011 – 30 Jun 2012 | +3.7 pp Q4 2010 → Q1 2012 | +3.0 pp/yr | |
| 2 | FJP Mohamed Morsi | 30 Jun 2012 – 4 Jul 2013 | +0.7 pp Q1 2012 → Q2 2013 | +0.6 pp/yr | |
| 3 | NFP Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | 8 Jun 2014 – now | −7.6 pp Q1 2014 → Q2 2026 | −0.6 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 labour force · CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics), Labour Force Survey, quarterly, from CAPMAS's data API: the unemployed (counted from 15 to 64) over the labour force, CAPMAS's headline rate, from 2010 · Egypt data · as of Aug 2026.