Unemployment rate during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the unemployment rate 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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#	President	In office	Total	Per year
1	Dmitry Medvedev	7 May 2008 – 7 May 2012	+0.5 pp 2007 → 2011	+0.1 pp/yr
2	N Vladimir Putin	7 May 2012 – now	−4.4 pp 2011 → 2025	−0.3 pp/yr
3	N Vladimir Putin	31 Dec 1999 – 7 May 2008	−6.9 pp 1999 → 2007	−0.9 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 labour force · World Bank, unemployment rate, national estimate (SL.UEM.TOTL.NE.ZS), from Rosstat's labour force survey · Russia data · as of Sep 2026.