Rankings ยท Russia
Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to Russia or the region over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Sep 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.
Presidents
- Real GDP during each president's tenureWorld Bank, GDP at constant 2016 rubles (NY.GDP.MKTP.KN), from Rosstat's national accounts
- Real GDP per person during each president's tenureWorld Bank, GDP per person at constant 2016 rubles (NY.GDP.PCAP.KN), from Rosstat's national accounts
- Unemployment rate during each president's tenureWorld Bank, unemployment rate, national estimate (SL.UEM.TOTL.NE.ZS), from Rosstat's labour force survey
- Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureBIS, Russia's consumer price index from Rosstat, change over twelve months, monthly from 2002 (the World Bank's yearly rate before)
- Average wage, real during each president's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: the wage bill of organisations over their average number of employees, small businesses excluded, the 83 regions added up, quarterly from 2017, deflated by the CPI, averaged over the last four quarters
- Employees during each president's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: average number of employees of organisations, small businesses excluded, the 83 regions added up, quarterly from 2017
- Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
- Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
- Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
- Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-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
- Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
Governors
- Average wage, real during each governor's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: the wage bill of organisations over their average number of employees, small businesses excluded, the region's municipalities added up, quarterly from 2017, deflated by the national CPI, averaged over the last four quarters
- Employees during each governor's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: average number of employees of organisations, small businesses excluded, the region's municipalities added up, quarterly from 2017
- Small-business jobs during each governor's tenureFederal Tax Service, register of small and medium businesses: their employees, the previous year's average headcount as the register gives it each September, from 2015
- Real GDP per person during each governor's tenureOECD regional database, gross regional product per person at constant 2020 prices, from Rosstat; 2000-2019, the OECD's last Russian year
- New mortgages, real during each governor's tenureBank of Russia, mortgage loans issued by region, deflated by the national CPI, summed over the trailing twelve months, from 2019
Mayors
- Average wage, real during each mayor's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: the wage bill of organisations over their average number of employees in the city's urban okrug, small businesses excluded, quarterly from 2017, deflated by the national CPI, averaged over the last four quarters
- Employees during each mayor's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: average number of employees of organisations in the city's urban okrug, small businesses excluded, quarterly from 2017
- Population during each mayor's tenureRosstat's municipal database (BDMO) as mirrored by tochno.st: the urban okrug's resident population on 1 January, estimated
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