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Employment rate, 15 and over during each mayor's tenure

Every mayor since 1991, ranked by how the employment rate, 15 and over changed from their first day in office, next to North Macedonia over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#MayorCityIn officeTotalvs North MacedoniaPer yearChart
1VMRO-DPMNE Koce Trajanovski Skopje 5 Apr 2009 – 25 Oct 2017 from 2009+8.1 pp 2009 → 2017+2.4 pp North Macedonia +5.7 pp+1.0 pp/yr
2 Petre Šilegov Skopje 25 Oct 2017 – 8 Nov 2021 +4.6 pp 2017 → 2021+1.5 pp North Macedonia +3.1 pp+1.2 pp/yr
3N Danela Arsovska Skopje 8 Nov 2021 – 6 Nov 2025 +0.1 pp 2021 → 2025+0.9 pp North Macedonia −0.8 pp0.0 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); North Macedonia 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 the population aged 15 and over · State 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) · Skopje statistical region (the City of Skopje and the seven municipalities around it) data · as of Apr 2026.

Sources: State Statistical Office (MAKStat: wages, population by municipality, the labour force survey by region; national and regional accounts via Eurostat; labour force survey via ILOSTAT; consumer prices via the IMF; population via the World Bank), National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia (house prices in Skopje, via the BIS), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (GDP before 2000), Eurostat, ILO (ILOSTAT), BIS, GISCO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; prime ministers checked against the official lists, mayors of Skopje against the municipal election results. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy