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Employment rate during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

54 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 30 countries, ranked against one another by how the employment rate 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.

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#Office-holderPlaceIn officeTotalPer yearChart
1Fidesz Viktor OrbánHungary Prime Minister29 May 2010 – 9 May 2026 +18.8 pp Q1 2010 → Q1 2026+1.2 pp/yr
2HDZ Andrej PlenkovićCroatia Prime Minister19 Oct 2016 – now +13.6 pp Q3 2016 → Q2 2026+1.4 pp/yr
3ND Kyriakos MitsotakisGreece Prime Minister8 Jul 2019 – now +11.4 pp Q2 2019 → Q2 2026+1.6 pp/yr
4PL Joseph MuscatMalta Prime Minister9 Mar 2013 – 13 Jan 2020 +10.5 pp Q4 2012 → Q4 2019+1.5 pp/yr
5PS António CostaPortugal Prime Minister26 Nov 2015 – 2 Apr 2024 +10.4 pp Q3 2015 → Q1 2024+1.2 pp/yr
6DISY Nikos AnastasiadesCyprus President28 Feb 2013 – 28 Feb 2023 +10.0 pp Q4 2012 → Q4 2022+1.0 pp/yr
7PL Robert AbelaMalta Prime Minister13 Jan 2020 – now +8.7 pp Q4 2019 → Q2 2026+1.3 pp/yr
8Lab Carwyn JonesWales First Minister · United Kingdom10 Dec 2009 – 13 Dec 2018 +8.5 pp Nov 2009 → Nov 2018+0.9 pp/yr
9Ind Sōichirō TakashimaFukuoka Mayor · Japan7 Dec 2010 – now +8.4 pp 2010 → 2023+0.6 pp/yr
10FG Enda KennyIreland Taoiseach9 Mar 2011 – 14 Jun 2017 +8.0 pp Q4 2010 → Q1 2017+1.3 pp/yr

Showing 10 of 203 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure the share of working-age people in work: aged 20–64 in the EU, 16–64 in the UK, 15–64 in Japan and South Korea; 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 pp; "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.

Sources: the official statistics of each region (FRED, Statistics Canada, Eurostat, the ONS, e-Stat, the OECD, Statistics Korea, IBGE, INDEC, INEGI, the ABS, BPS, MoSPI, the World Bank and more, listed on each region's page), GISCO, Natural Earth, BIG, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy