Real GDP per person during each national leader's tenure, worldwide

The leaders of 39 countries since 1991, ranked against one another by how real GDP per person 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	+158% 2002 → 2012	+9.9%/yr
2	CCP Xi Jinping	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2012 – now	+105% 2012 → 2025	+5.7%/yr
3	BJP Narendra Modi	India Prime Minister	26 May 2014 – now	+82.6% 2013 → 2025	+5.1%/yr
4	FF Bertie Ahern	Ireland Taoiseach	26 Jun 1997 – 7 May 2008	+67.4% Q1 1997 → Q1 2008	+4.8%/yr
5	INC Manmohan Singh	India Prime Minister	22 May 2004 – 26 May 2014	+66.8% 2003 → 2013	+5.3%/yr
6	Demokrat Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia President	20 Oct 2004 – 20 Oct 2014	+55.0% Q3 2004 → Q3 2014	+4.5%/yr
7	LSDP Algirdas Brazauskas	Lithuania Prime Minister	3 Jul 2001 – 4 Jul 2006	+53.6% Q2 2001 → Q2 2006	+9.0%/yr
8	Fidesz Viktor Orbán	Hungary Prime Minister	29 May 2010 – 9 May 2026	+51.3% Q1 2010 → Q1 2026	+2.6%/yr
9	HDZ Andrej Plenković	Croatia Prime Minister	19 Oct 2016 – now	+47.6% Q3 2016 → Q2 2026	+4.1%/yr
10	TP Aigars Kalvītis	Latvia Prime Minister	2 Dec 2004 – 20 Dec 2007	+45.0% Q3 2004 → Q3 2007	+13.2%/yr

Showing 10 of 264 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.