Real GDP during each national leader's tenure, worldwide

The leaders of 39 countries since 1991, ranked against one another by how real GDP changed from their 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 Hu Jintao	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2002 – 15 Nov 2012	+172% 2002 → 2012	+10.5%/yr
2	CCP Xi Jinping	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2012 – now	+113% 2012 → 2025	+6.0%/yr
3	BJP Narendra Modi	India Prime Minister	26 May 2014 – now	+106% 2013 → 2025	+6.2%/yr
4	FF Bertie Ahern	Ireland Taoiseach	26 Jun 1997 – 7 May 2008	+94.2% Q1 1997 → Q1 2008	+6.2%/yr
5	INC Manmohan Singh	India Prime Minister	22 May 2004 – 26 May 2014	+93.3% 2003 → 2013	+6.8%/yr
6	CSV Jean-Claude Juncker	Luxembourg Prime Minister	20 Jan 1995 – 5 Dec 2013 from Q2 1995	+88.0% Q2 1995 → Q3 2013	+3.5%/yr
7	Demokrat Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia President	20 Oct 2004 – 20 Oct 2014	+76.0% Q3 2004 → Q3 2014	+5.8%/yr
8	PL Joseph Muscat	Malta Prime Minister	9 Mar 2013 – 13 Jan 2020	+65.6% Q4 2012 → Q4 2019	+7.5%/yr
9	LIB John Howard	Australia Prime Minister	11 Mar 1996 – 3 Dec 2007	+54.3% Q4 1995 → Q3 2007	+3.8%/yr
10	FG Enda Kenny	Ireland Taoiseach	9 Mar 2011 – 14 Jun 2017	+51.1% Q4 2010 → Q1 2017	+6.8%/yr

Showing 10 of 273 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.