Jobs during each national leader's tenure, worldwide
The leaders of 4 countries since 1991, ranked against one another by how jobs 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 | LIB John Howard | Australia Prime Minister | 11 Mar 1996 – 3 Dec 2007 | +27.4% Feb 1996 → Nov 2007 | +2.1%/yr | |
| 2 | D Bill Clinton | United States President | 20 Jan 1993 – 20 Jan 2001 | +21.2% Dec 1992 → Dec 2000 | +2.4%/yr | |
| 3 | LPC Justin Trudeau | Canada Prime Minister | 4 Nov 2015 – 14 Mar 2025 | +14.9% Oct 2015 → Feb 2025 | +1.5%/yr | |
| 4 | CPC Stephen Harper | Canada Prime Minister | 6 Feb 2006 – 4 Nov 2015 | +12.0% Jan 2006 → Oct 2015 | +1.2%/yr | |
| 5 | D Joe Biden | United States President | 20 Jan 2021 – 20 Jan 2025 | +11.1% Dec 2020 → Dec 2024 | +2.7%/yr | |
| 6 | ALP Anthony Albanese | Australia Prime Minister | 23 May 2022 – now | +9.9% Apr 2022 → Sep 2026 | +2.2%/yr | |
| 7 | ALP Paul Keating | Australia Prime Minister | 20 Dec 1991 – 11 Mar 1996 | +9.2% Nov 1991 → Feb 1996 | +2.1%/yr | |
| 8 | D Barack Obama | United States President | 20 Jan 2009 – 20 Jan 2017 | +7.8% Dec 2008 → Dec 2016 | +0.9%/yr | |
| 9 | LIB Scott Morrison | Australia Prime Minister | 24 Aug 2018 – 23 May 2022 | +7.4% Jul 2018 → Apr 2022 | +1.9%/yr | |
| 10 | LIB Malcolm Turnbull | Australia Prime Minister | 15 Sep 2015 – 24 Aug 2018 | +6.4% Aug 2015 → Jul 2018 | +2.2%/yr |
Showing 10 of 21 tenures.
Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure payroll jobs in the United States and Canada, people employed in Australia, registered private jobs in Argentina; 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.