Poverty rate during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the poverty rate changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Prime minister	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Najib Razak	3 Apr 2009 – 10 May 2018 from 2009	−3.4 pp 2009 → 2016	−0.5 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 households below the poverty line · Department of Statistics Malaysia (OpenDOSM, data.gov.my), Household Income Survey, absolute poverty: households under the poverty line income (hh_poverty), the survey years · Malaysia data · as of Sep 2026.