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Inflation (CPI) during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the inflation (CPI) 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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#Prime ministerIn officeTotalPer yearChart
1 Hans Enoksen 14 Dec 2002 – 12 Jun 2009 +5.4 pp H1 2002 → H2 2008+0.8 pp/yr
2 Jonathan Motzfeldt 19 Sep 1997 – 14 Dec 2002 +3.5 pp H1 1997 → H1 2002+0.7 pp/yr
3 Múte Bourup Egede 23 Apr 2021 – 7 Apr 2025 +1.1 pp H2 2020 → H2 2024+0.3 pp/yr
4 Kim Kielsen 30 Sep 2014 – 23 Apr 2021 +0.4 pp H1 2014 → H2 2020+0.1 pp/yr
5 Jens-Frederik Nielsen 7 Apr 2025 – now −0.2 pp H2 2024 → H2 2026−0.1 pp/yr
6 Aleqa Hammond 5 Apr 2013 – 30 Sep 2014 −3.0 pp H2 2012 → H1 2014−2.0 pp/yr
7 Lars-Emil Johansen 18 Mar 1991 – 19 Sep 1997 from H2 1991−3.4 pp H2 1991 → H1 1997−0.6 pp/yr
8 Kuupik Kleist 12 Jun 2009 – 5 Apr 2013 −5.1 pp H2 2008 → H2 2012−1.3 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last half-year 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. % change on a year earlier · Statistics Greenland, consumer price index (PRXPRISH), surveyed in January and July, change on the same survey a year earlier · Greenland 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