Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how consumer prices (CPI) 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	Chart
1	Bashar al-Assad	17 Jul 2000 – 8 Dec 2024	+29,678% Jun 2000 → Nov 2024	+26.3%/yr
2	N Ahmed al-Sharaa	8 Dec 2024 – now	+36.6% Nov 2024 → Jun 2026	+21.8%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. index, 2010 = 100 · Central Bureau of Statistics consumer price index: the IMF's copy (CPI, all items, spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100) to December 2019, FAOSTAT's (official figures, 2015 = 100) from January 2020 rescaled to it; no month of 2021 · Syria data · as of Jul 2026.