Population Unemployment rate Unemployment rate during each mayor's tenure 89 mayors, ranked by how
the unemployment rate changed from their first day in office, next to the country over the same months.
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# Mayor City In office Total vs country Per year Chart 1 VVD Jozias van AartsenThe Hague 27 Mar 2008 – 17 Mar 2017 +4.7 pp 2008 → 2016 +2.3 pp country +2.4 pp +0.6 pp/yr 2 KE Mihhail KõlvartTallinn 4 Apr 2019 – 14 Apr 2024 +4.2 pp 2019 → 2024 +1.0 pp country +3.2 pp +0.8 pp/yr 3 O Eva WeberAugsburg 1 May 2020 – 4 May 2026 +2.4 pp 2020 → 2024 +2.4 pp country 0.0 pp +0.6 pp/yr 4 O Aleid WolfsenUtrecht 2 Jan 2008 – 1 Jan 2014 +1.7 pp 2008 → 2012 +0.1 pp country +1.6 pp +0.4 pp/yr 5 KE Edgar SavisaarTallinn 9 Apr 2007 – 9 Nov 2017 +1.7 pp 2007 → 2017 +0.6 pp country +1.0 pp +0.2 pp/yr 6 SPD Peter TschentscherHamburg 28 Mar 2018 – now +1.6 pp 2018 → 2024 +1.7 pp country −0.1 pp +0.3 pp/yr 7 O Uwe SchneidewindWuppertal 1 Nov 2020 – 1 Nov 2025 +1.5 pp 2020 → 2024 +1.5 pp country 0.0 pp +0.4 pp/yr 8 O Eberhard van der LaanAmsterdam 1 Jan 2010 – 1 Jan 2017 from 2010 +1.3 pp 2010 → 2016 +0.1 pp country +1.2 pp +0.2 pp/yr 9 PP Ana BotellaMadrid 27 Dec 2011 – 13 Jun 2015 +1.3 pp 2011 → 2015 −1.7 pp country +3.0 pp +0.3 pp/yr 10 O Marcus KönigNuremberg 1 May 2020 – now +1.1 pp 2020 → 2024 +1.1 pp country 0.0 pp +0.3 pp/yr
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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);
the country is measured over the same months. 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 · Eurostat Urban Audit (urb_clma) · city (Urban Audit boundary) data · as of Jan 2025.
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