Real GDP during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

347 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 39 countries, ranked against one another by how real GDP 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-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year
1	CCP Chen Jianguo	Ningxia Party Secretary · China	1 Mar 2002 – 1 Jul 2010	+218% 2001 → 2010	+13.7%/yr
2	CCP Chu Bo	Inner Mongolia Party Secretary · China	15 Aug 2001 – 30 Nov 2009	+204% 2001 → 2009	+14.9%/yr
3	CCP Bai Enpei	Yunnan Party Secretary · China	25 Oct 2001 – 25 Aug 2011	+182% 2001 → 2011	+10.9%/yr
4	CCP Hu Jintao	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2002 – 15 Nov 2012	+172% 2002 → 2012	+10.5%/yr
5	CCP Liu Qi	Beijing Party Secretary · China	22 Oct 2002 – 3 Jul 2012	+165% 2002 → 2012	+10.3%/yr
6	Gerindra Longki Djanggola	Central Sulawesi Governor · Indonesia	16 Jun 2011 – 16 Jun 2021	+157% Q1 2011 → Q1 2021	+9.9%/yr
7	PKS Abdul Ghani Kasuba	North Maluku Governor · Indonesia	5 May 2014 – 20 Dec 2023	+153% Q1 2014 → Q3 2023	+10.3%/yr
8	N Edmund Ho	Macao Chief Executive · China	20 Dec 1999 – 20 Dec 2009	+146% 1999 → 2009	+9.4%/yr
9	CCP Zhao Leji	Shaanxi Party Secretary · China	25 Mar 2007 – 19 Nov 2012	+125% 2006 → 2012	+14.4%/yr
10	CCP Meng Jianzhu	Jiangxi Party Secretary · China	1 Apr 2001 – 30 Nov 2007	+122% 2000 → 2007	+12.0%/yr

Showing 10 of 1168 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure each place's output after inflation: GDP or gross state product, gross value added for the UK's nations; 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 per cent; "per year" compounds them. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. Data as of Sep 2026.