Government debt during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the government debt 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 minister	In office	Total	Per year
1	VMRO-DPMNE Ljubčo Georgievski	30 Nov 1998 – 1 Nov 2002 from 1999	+10.6 pp 1999 → 2002	+3.5 pp/yr
2	VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Gruevski	27 Aug 2006 – 18 Jan 2016	+7.4 pp 2006 → 2015	+0.8 pp/yr
3	Zoran Zaev	31 May 2017 – 3 Jan 2020	+0.7 pp 2016 → 2019	+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); 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 GDP · IMF World Economic Outlook, general government gross debt (GGXWDG_NGDP), calendar years, the years of actual figures only (the latest an estimate), from 1999 · North Macedonia data · as of Aug 2026.