Happiness during each national leader's tenure, worldwide

The leaders of 42 countries since 1991, ranked against one another by how the happiness 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.

#	Office-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Xi Jinping	China General Secretary	15 Nov 2012 – now from 2013	+0.93 steps 2013 → 2024	+0.08 steps/yr
2	António Costa	Portugal Prime Minister	26 Nov 2015 – 2 Apr 2024	+0.82 steps 2015 → 2023	+0.10 steps/yr
3	Victor Ponta	Romania Prime Minister	7 May 2012 – 17 Nov 2015	+0.79 steps 2011 → 2015	+0.20 steps/yr
4	Alexis Tsipras	Greece Prime Minister	26 Jan 2015 – 8 Jul 2019	+0.69 steps 2014 → 2019	+0.14 steps/yr
5	Andrej Plenković	Croatia Prime Minister	19 Oct 2016 – now	+0.69 steps 2016 → 2024	+0.09 steps/yr
6	Jüri Ratas	Estonia Prime Minister	23 Nov 2016 – 26 Jan 2021	+0.60 steps 2016 → 2020	+0.15 steps/yr
7	Miro Cerar	Slovenia Prime Minister	18 Sep 2014 – 17 Aug 2018	+0.60 steps 2014 → 2018	+0.15 steps/yr
8	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Mexico President	1 Dec 2018 – 1 Oct 2024	+0.51 steps 2018 → 2024	+0.08 steps/yr
9	LVŽS Saulius Skvernelis	Lithuania Prime Minister	22 Nov 2016 – 25 Nov 2020	+0.49 steps 2016 → 2020	+0.12 steps/yr
10	Mateusz Morawiecki	Poland Prime Minister	11 Dec 2017 – 13 Dec 2023	+0.49 steps 2017 → 2023	+0.08 steps/yr

Showing 10 of 73 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure the World Happiness Report's life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll, 0 to 10 on the same ladder in every country; three-year averages, so a short tenure is partly its predecessor's; 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 steps; "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.