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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.

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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, 15 and over · Ghana Statistical Service's surveys as ILOSTAT processes their microdata on the ILO's definitions, persons aged 15 and over: the Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey's quarters 2022 to 2024, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey's from Q2 2025. GSS's own headline unemployment rate, on its national definition, reads about four times higher (13.0 % in Q3 2025) · Ghana data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Ghana Statistical Service (quarterly GDP from StatsBank, consumer prices via the IMF, labour surveys via ILOSTAT), Bank of Ghana (exchange rate via the IMF), IMF, World Bank (GDP before 2006, 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 state checked against the official lists. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy