Real GDP per person during each president's tenure
Every president since 1991, ranked by how real GDP per person 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 | AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 14 Mar 2003 – 28 Aug 2014 | +64.3% Q4 2002 → Q2 2014 | +4.4%/yr | |
| 2 | AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 9 Jul 2018 – now | +37.3% Q2 2018 → Q2 2026 | +4.0%/yr | |
| 3 | AKP Binali Yıldırım | 24 May 2016 – 9 Jul 2018 | +9.1% Q1 2016 → Q2 2018 | +4.0%/yr | |
| 4 |  Necmettin Erbakan | 28 Jun 1996 – 30 Jun 1997 | +4.8% Q1 1996 → Q1 1997 | +4.8%/yr | |
| 5 | ANAP Mesut Yılmaz | 30 Jun 1997 – 11 Jan 1999 | +4.7% Q1 1997 → Q4 1998 | +2.7%/yr | |
| 6 | AKP Ahmet Davutoğlu | 28 Aug 2014 – 24 May 2016 | +4.4% Q2 2014 → Q1 2016 | +2.5%/yr | |
| 7 | DSP Bülent Ecevit | 11 Jan 1999 – 18 Nov 2002 | +0.5% Q4 1998 → Q3 2002 | +0.1%/yr |
Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter 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. ₺ thousand per person, chain-linked volumes, last four quarters · TurkStat quarterly GDP via the OECD (QNA, B1GQ), chain-linked volumes summed over the trailing four quarters, over the register population (OECD regional database) interpolated to the quarter · Turkey data · as of Sep 2026.