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Population during each state or provincial leader's tenure, worldwide

230 states, provinces and nations in 9 countries, ranked against one another by how population changed from each office-holder's first day in office, each on its own country's figures, next to its own country over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1CCP Liu QiBeijing Party Secretary · China22 Oct 2002 – 3 Jul 2012 +46.0% 2002 → 2012+39.3 pts China +6.8%+3.9%/yr
2D Kenny GuinnNevada Governor · United States4 Jan 1999 – 1 Jan 2007 +44.7% 1998 → 2006+36.5 pts United States +8.2%+4.7%/yr
3PDT Waldez GóesAmapá Governor · Brazil1 Jan 2003 – 1 Jan 2023 +42.1% 2002 → 2022+25.8 pts Brazil +16.3%+1.8%/yr
4PRI Joaquín Hendricks DíazQuintana Roo Governor · Mexico5 Apr 1999 – 5 Apr 2005 +31.7% 1998 → 2004+23.3 pts Mexico +8.5%+4.7%/yr
5PC Ralph KleinAlberta Premier · Canada14 Dec 1992 – 14 Dec 2006 +30.0% Q3 1992 → Q3 2006+15.2 pts Canada +14.8%+1.9%/yr
6R Mike LeavittUtah Governor · United States4 Jan 1993 – 5 Nov 2003 +29.6% 1992 → 2003+16.5 pts United States +13.1%+2.4%/yr
7R Rick PerryTexas Governor · United States21 Dec 2000 – 20 Jan 2015 +28.7% 2000 → 2014+15.6 pts United States +13.2%+1.8%/yr
8CCP Zhang GaoliTianjin Party Secretary · China25 Mar 2007 – 21 Nov 2012 +28.2% 2006 → 2012+24.8 pts China +3.4%+4.2%/yr
9PP Antonio DenariumRoraima Governor · Brazil1 Jan 2019 – 27 Mar 2026 +28.1% 2018 → 2025+25.8 pts Brazil +2.4%+3.6%/yr
10PRD Narciso Agúndez MontañoBaja California Sur Governor · Mexico5 Apr 2005 – 5 Apr 2011 +28.1% 2004 → 2010+18.9 pts Mexico +9.2%+4.2%/yr

Showing 10 of 856 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure residents, as each statistics office estimates them; 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); each place's own country is measured over the same months. 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.

Sources: the official statistics of each region (FRED, Statistics Canada, Eurostat, the ONS, e-Stat, the OECD, Statistics Korea, IBGE, INDEC, INEGI, the ABS, BPS, MoSPI, the World Bank and more, listed on each region's page), GISCO, Natural Earth, BIG, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy