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Unemployment rate during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister 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.

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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); 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, 15 and over · Ethiopian Statistics Service (the Central Statistical Agency until 2021), National Labour Force Surveys of 2005 and 2013 and the Labour Force and Migration Survey of 2021, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles them; one round every eight years, each dated at mid-year · Ethiopia data · as of Oct 2026.

Sources: Ethiopian Statistics Service (consumer prices via the IMF, labour force surveys via ILOSTAT), Ethiopia's national accounts via the World Bank, National Bank of Ethiopia (exchange rates, via the IMF and its own API), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (population, access to electricity), ILO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; heads of government checked against the official lists. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy