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Employment rate, 15 and over during each head of government's tenure

Every head of government since 1991, ranked by how the employment rate, 15 and over 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 +7.5 pp Q4 2020 → Q4 2024+1.9 pp/yr
2 Isa Mustafa 9 Dec 2014 – 9 Sep 2017 +1.7 pp Q3 2014 → Q2 2017+0.6 pp/yr
3AAK Ramush Haradinaj 9 Sep 2017 – 3 Feb 2020 +1.2 pp Q2 2017 → Q4 2019+0.5 pp/yr
4 Hashim Thaçi 17 Feb 2008 – 9 Dec 2014 −1.8 pp Q3 2007 → Q3 2014−0.3 pp/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last quarter 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 pp; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. % of the population aged 15 and over · Kosovo Agency of Statistics (ASK), Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it (source BA:700): quarterly from 2012 to 2024, yearly from 2001 before; ASK's own tables show ages 15-64 only, and no survey results are published after 2024 · 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