Freedom of expression during each head of government's tenure

Every head of government since 1991, ranked by how the freedom of expression changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Head of government	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Boris Tadić	7 Jul 2008 – 5 Apr 2012	−1.4 points 2008 → 2011	−0.5 points/yr
2	Vojislav Koštunica	4 Mar 2004 – 7 Jul 2008	−1.6 points 2003 → 2008	−0.3 points/yr
3	Aleksandar Vučić	27 Apr 2014 – 28 Sep 2026	−16.0 points 2013 → 2025	−1.3 points/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 points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, V-Dem's 0 to 1 index times 100 · V-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 · Serbia data · as of Sep 2026.