Happiness during each government's tenure

27 governments, ranked by how the happiness changed from their first day in office, next to the European Union over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Government	Country	In office	Total	vs EU	Per year	Chart
1	António Costa	Portugal	26 Nov 2015 – 2 Apr 2024	+0.82 steps 2015 → 2023	+0.48 steps EU +0.34 steps	+0.10 steps/yr
2	Victor Ponta	Romania	7 May 2012 – 17 Nov 2015	+0.79 steps 2011 → 2015	+0.72 steps EU +0.07 steps	+0.20 steps/yr
3	Alexis Tsipras	Greece	26 Jan 2015 – 8 Jul 2019	+0.69 steps 2014 → 2019	+0.29 steps EU +0.40 steps	+0.14 steps/yr
4	Andrej Plenković	Croatia	19 Oct 2016 – now	+0.69 steps 2016 → 2024	+0.40 steps EU +0.28 steps	+0.09 steps/yr
5	Jüri Ratas	Estonia	23 Nov 2016 – 26 Jan 2021	+0.60 steps 2016 → 2020	+0.31 steps EU +0.29 steps	+0.15 steps/yr
6	Miro Cerar	Slovenia	18 Sep 2014 – 17 Aug 2018	+0.60 steps 2014 → 2018	+0.25 steps EU +0.35 steps	+0.15 steps/yr
7	LVŽS Saulius Skvernelis	Lithuania	22 Nov 2016 – 25 Nov 2020	+0.49 steps 2016 → 2020	+0.20 steps EU +0.29 steps	+0.12 steps/yr
8	Mateusz Morawiecki	Poland	11 Dec 2017 – 13 Dec 2023	+0.49 steps 2017 → 2023	+0.35 steps EU +0.14 steps	+0.08 steps/yr
9	Boyko Borissov	Bulgaria	4 May 2017 – 12 May 2021	+0.44 steps 2016 → 2020	+0.15 steps EU +0.29 steps	+0.11 steps/yr
10	Juha Sipilä	Finland	29 May 2015 – 6 Jun 2019	+0.40 steps 2014 → 2018	+0.05 steps EU +0.35 steps	+0.10 steps/yr

Showing 10 of 46 tenures.

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); the European Union 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; the European Union line is Politare's unweighted mean of the 27 members' averages · country data · as of Sep 2026.