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Consumer prices (CPI) during each head of government's tenure

Every head of government since 1991, ranked by how consumer prices (CPI) changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#Head of governmentIn officeTotalPer yearChart
1 Albin Kurti 22 Mar 2021 – now +36.4% Feb 2021 → Sep 2026+5.7%/yr
2N Joachim Rücker 1 Sep 2006 – 17 Feb 2008 +14.5% Aug 2006 → Jan 2008+10.0%/yr
3 Hashim Thaçi 17 Feb 2008 – 9 Dec 2014 +14.3% Jan 2008 → Nov 2014+2.0%/yr
4AAK Ramush Haradinaj 9 Sep 2017 – 3 Feb 2020 +5.3% Aug 2017 → Jan 2020+2.1%/yr
5 Isa Mustafa 9 Dec 2014 – 9 Sep 2017 +1.1% Nov 2014 → Aug 2017+0.4%/yr
6N Søren Jessen-Petersen 16 Aug 2004 – 30 Jun 2006 +0.8% Jul 2004 → May 2006+0.4%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month 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); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. index, 2015 = 100 · Kosovo Agency of Statistics harmonised consumer price index via Eurostat (prc_hicp_minr, 2015 = 100) from January 2015; its earlier index via the IMF (CPI, from May 2002) rescaled to it · Kosovo data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Kosovo Agency of Statistics (quarterly national accounts, chain-linked by Politare, house prices, wages and population, Pristina's too, from its database; annual national accounts and consumer prices via Eurostat; consumer prices before 2015 via the IMF; labour force survey via ILOSTAT), IMF (World Economic Outlook: government debt), World Bank (population before 2012), Eurostat, ILO, GISCO, Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; heads of government checked against the official lists, Pristina's mayors against the city's list. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy