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Unemployment rate during each mayor's tenure

Every mayor since 1991, ranked by how the unemployment rate changed from their first day in office, next to Greenland over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Avaaraq S. Olsen Nuuk 15 Jun 2022 – now −0.5 pp 2021 → 2024−0.2 pp Greenland −0.3 pp−0.2 pp/yr
2 Charlotte Ludvigsen Nuuk 11 Jun 2019 – 15 Jun 2022 −0.6 pp 2018 → 2021+0.7 pp Greenland −1.3 pp−0.2 pp/yr

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); Greenland 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, register-based · Statistics Greenland, register-based labour statistics for permanent residents, yearly: the discontinued tables to 2015, the current ones from 2016 (ARXLED4_old, ARXLED3), the Nuuk district's towns (Nuuk is the only one): people aged 18 to 65 to 2015, 18 to the pension age from 2016, from 2010; registered unemployment, not a survey · city (Nuuk town's residents) data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Statistics Greenland (national accounts, register-based labour statistics, registered jobseekers, consumer prices, exports, public finances, population; Nuuk's population, labour statistics, jobseekers and income), World Bank (GDP before 2003), GISCO, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; prime ministers checked against the official lists, Nuuk's and Sermersooq's mayors against Atuagagdliutit, KNR and Sermitsiaq. V-Dem, Transparency International and the World Happiness Report do not score Greenland. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy