Government effectiveness during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

42 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 40 countries, ranked against one another by how the government effectiveness changed from each office-holder's first day in office, each on its own country's figures. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Office-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia President	20 Oct 2004 – 20 Oct 2014	+24.6 points 2004 → 2014	+2.5 points/yr
2	N Edmund Ho	Macao Chief Executive · China	20 Dec 1999 – 20 Dec 2009 from 2000	+18.3 points 2000 → 2009	+2.0 points/yr
3	Xi Jinping	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2012 – now	+14.8 points 2012 → 2025	+1.1 points/yr
4	Algirdas Brazauskas	Lithuania Prime Minister	3 Jul 2001 – 4 Jul 2006	+13.7 points 2000 → 2006	+2.3 points/yr
5	Donald Tusk	Poland Prime Minister	16 Nov 2007 – 22 Sep 2014	+13.3 points 2007 → 2014	+1.9 points/yr
6	Manmohan Singh	India Prime Minister	22 May 2004 – 26 May 2014	+11.0 points 2003 → 2013	+1.1 points/yr
7	Shinzō Abe	Japan Prime Minister	26 Dec 2012 – 16 Sep 2020	+10.6 points 2012 → 2020	+1.3 points/yr
8	Hu Jintao	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2002 – 15 Nov 2012	+9.6 points 2002 → 2012	+1.0 points/yr
9	Ivo Sanader	Croatia Prime Minister	23 Dec 2003 – 6 Jul 2009	+8.5 points 2003 → 2009	+1.4 points/yr
10	Moon Jae-in	South Korea President	10 May 2017 – 10 May 2022	+8.4 points 2016 → 2021	+1.7 points/yr

Showing 10 of 155 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators score from 0 to 100, one method for every country; yearly, so a tenure's change is between two whole years; each place is read from its own statistics office's series (the row's chart names it), so a change is set against the place's own first day, never against another country's level. Every row is indexed to the last month, quarter or count 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). Changes are differences in points; "per year" divides them by the years in office. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. Data as of Sep 2026.