Exchange rate during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how exchange rate changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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. S£ per US dollar (new pounds), monthly average · Central Bank of Syria official rate: the IMF's copy (ER, period average) from January 2011 to December 2022, FAOSTAT's after; in new pounds (one new pound for 100 old since 1 January 2026), so 47 old pounds in 2011 read 0.47. Before 2011 the IMF's series is the fixed rate of 11.225 old pounds kept for some public accounts, far from the rate trade used, so those years are left out; the street rate was far weaker than the official one for most of the war · Syria data · as of Jul 2026.