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Registered jobseekers during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how registered jobseekers 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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1 Aleqa Hammond 5 Apr 2013 – 30 Sep 2014 +4.4% Mar 2013 → Aug 2014+3.1%/yr
2 Jens-Frederik Nielsen 7 Apr 2025 – now −9.3% Mar 2025 → Sep 2026−6.3%/yr
3 Múte Bourup Egede 23 Apr 2021 – 7 Apr 2025 −17.9% Mar 2021 → Mar 2025−4.8%/yr
4 Kim Kielsen 30 Sep 2014 – 23 Apr 2021 −50.3% Aug 2014 → Mar 2021−10.1%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month 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 %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. people, average of the last twelve months · Statistics Greenland, registered jobseekers (ARXLED1), towns and settlements, from the municipal labour offices' records, aged 18 to the pension age, averaged over the trailing twelve months (the count doubles every winter), from 2010; Statistics Greenland warns that recording practice and the pension age have changed · 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