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

588 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 39 countries, ranked against one another by how real GDP per person 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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1CCP Chu BoInner Mongolia Party Secretary · China15 Aug 2001 – 30 Nov 2009 +193% 2001 → 2009+14.4%/yr
2CCP Chen JianguoNingxia Party Secretary · China1 Mar 2002 – 1 Jul 2010 +179% 2001 → 2010+12.1%/yr
3CCP Bai EnpeiYunnan Party Secretary · China25 Oct 2001 – 25 Aug 2011 +159% 2001 → 2011+10.0%/yr
4CCP Hu JintaoChina General Secretary15 Nov 2002 – 15 Nov 2012 +158% 2002 → 2012+9.9%/yr
5O Artūras ZuokasVilnius Mayor · Lithuania1 Jan 2000 – 22 Apr 2015 from 2000+152% 2000 → 2014+6.8%/yr
6Gerindra Longki DjanggolaCentral Sulawesi Governor · Indonesia16 Jun 2011 – 16 Jun 2021 +130% 2010 → 2020+8.7%/yr
7PKS Abdul Ghani KasubaNorth Maluku Governor · Indonesia5 May 2014 – 20 Dec 2023 +124% 2013 → 2023+8.4%/yr
8CCP Zhao LejiShaanxi Party Secretary · China25 Mar 2007 – 19 Nov 2012 +119% 2006 → 2012+14.0%/yr
9CCP Meng JianzhuJiangxi Party Secretary · China1 Apr 2001 – 30 Nov 2007 +115% 2000 → 2007+11.5%/yr
10CCP Xi JinpingChina General Secretary15 Nov 2012 – now +105% 2012 → 2025+5.7%/yr

Showing 10 of 1491 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure output per resident after inflation; gross value added per person for the UK's nations and cities; 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.

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