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.

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Bashar al-Assad	17 Jul 2000 – 8 Dec 2024	+7.3 pp 1999 → 2011	+0.6 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, 15 and over · Central Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it: yearly rounds, the last in 2011; no survey has been published since the war began · Syria data · as of Jul 2026.