Employment rate, 15 and over during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the employment rate, 15 and over 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	Yusuf Raza Gilani	25 Mar 2008 – 22 Jun 2012	+0.5 pp 2008 → 2011	+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 the population aged 15 and over · Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over (Employment Trends 2025, Table 3.1), eleven rounds from 2007-08, each over a fiscal year (July to June) and dated at its middle; no round in 2011-12, 2015-16, 2016-17 or 2019-20 to 2023-24 · Pakistan data · as of Oct 2026.