Rule of law during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

42 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 40 countries, ranked against one another by how the rule of law 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	N Edmund Ho	Macao Chief Executive · China	20 Dec 1999 – 20 Dec 2009 from 2000	+11.8 points 2000 → 2009	+1.3 points/yr
2	N Tung Chee-hwa	Hong Kong Chief Executive · China	1 Jul 1997 – 12 Mar 2005	+7.9 points 1996 → 2004	+1.0 points/yr
3	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia President	20 Oct 2004 – 20 Oct 2014	+7.7 points 2004 → 2014	+0.8 points/yr
4	Algirdas Brazauskas	Lithuania Prime Minister	3 Jul 2001 – 4 Jul 2006	+7.5 points 2000 → 2006	+1.2 points/yr
5	Vicente Fox	Mexico President	1 Dec 2000 – 1 Dec 2006	+6.9 points 2000 → 2006	+1.2 points/yr
6	Krišjānis Kariņš	Latvia Prime Minister	23 Jan 2019 – 15 Sep 2023	+6.4 points 2018 → 2023	+1.3 points/yr
7	Andrus Ansip	Estonia Prime Minister	13 Apr 2005 – 26 Mar 2014	+6.3 points 2004 → 2013	+0.7 points/yr
8	Donald Tusk	Poland Prime Minister	16 Nov 2007 – 22 Sep 2014	+5.6 points 2007 → 2014	+0.8 points/yr
9	Néstor Kirchner	Argentina President	25 May 2003 – 10 Dec 2007	+5.5 points 2002 → 2007	+1.1 points/yr
10	Algirdas Butkevičius	Lithuania Prime Minister	22 Nov 2012 – 22 Nov 2016	+5.2 points 2012 → 2016	+1.3 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; 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.