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Rankings ยท North Macedonia

Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to North Macedonia over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Aug 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.

Prime ministers

  • Real GDP during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office quarterly national accounts via Eurostat (namq_10_gdp, B1GQ, chain-linked volumes, 2020 reference year, not seasonally adjusted), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 2000; the World Bank's GDP at constant denars by calendar year before, rescaled to 2000
  • Real GDP per person during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office quarterly GDP via Eurostat (chain-linked volumes, 2020 reference year), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 2000), over the population (the Office's 30 June estimates revised on the 2021 census, via the World Bank) interpolated to the quarter
  • Unemployment rate during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it (BA:501): quarterly from 2004, yearly rounds from 1996
  • Employment rate, 15 and over during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it (BA:501): quarterly from 2004, yearly rounds from 1996
  • Average net wage during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office (MAKStat, table 175: average paid net wage per employee, all sectors), monthly from January 2005, adjusted for inflation with the consumer price index (IMF)
  • Inflation (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, spliced across base years by the IMF), change on the same month a year earlier, from 1994
  • Consumer prices (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, all items, base years spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100), from 1993
  • House prices (Skopje) during each prime minister's tenureNational Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, residential property price index, new and used flats in Skopje (asking prices in real-estate agencies' notices, hedonic method), via the BIS's residential property prices (WS_SPP, Q.MK.N.628), not adjusted for inflation, from 2000
  • Government debt during each prime minister's tenureIMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP), calendar years, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate), from 1999
  • Population during each prime minister's tenureState Statistical Office, resident population on 30 June, revised on the 2021 census from 2003, via the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL; the UN's estimates before 2003)
  • Happiness during each prime minister's tenureWorld 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
  • Government effectiveness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Regulatory quality during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Rule of law during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Control of corruption during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Corruption perceptions index during each prime minister's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
  • Voice and accountability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Electoral democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Liberal democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Freedom of expression during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Political stability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval

Mayors

  • Population during each mayor's tenureState Statistical Office (MAKStat), estimated resident population on 30 June by municipality, on the 2021 census, the City of Skopje's ten municipalities added up by Politare, from 2021 (the municipal estimates before rest on the 2002 census and lump some of the City's municipalities together)
  • GDP per person during each mayor's tenureEurostat, regional accounts: GDP at current prices (nama_10r_3gdp, million denars) over the average population (nama_10r_3popgdp), the Skopje statistical region (NUTS 3 MK008), adjusted for inflation with the consumer price index (IMF), calendar years dated at mid-year, from 2000
  • People in work during each mayor's tenureEurostat, regional accounts: employment by place of work, all industries, persons (nama_10r_3empers, the State Statistical Office's figures), the Skopje statistical region (NUTS 3 MK008), yearly from 2000
  • Unemployment rate during each mayor's tenureState Statistical Office (MAKStat), Labour Force Survey, rates of the population aged 15 and over by statistical region, yearly: the revised series on the 2021 census from 2017, the archived series before (from 2009)
  • Employment rate, 15 and over during each mayor's tenureState Statistical Office (MAKStat), Labour Force Survey, rates of the population aged 15 and over by statistical region, yearly: the revised series on the 2021 census from 2017, the archived series before (from 2009)
  • House prices during each mayor's tenureNational Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia, residential property price index, new and used flats in Skopje (asking prices in real-estate agencies' notices, hedonic method), via the BIS's residential property prices (WS_SPP, Q.MK.N.628), not adjusted for inflation, from 2000; the country has no index of its own

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