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Rankings ยท South Africa

Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to South Africa or the province over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Oct 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.

Presidents

  • Real GDP during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa quarterly GDP via the IMF (QNEA, B1GQ, constant 2015 prices, not seasonally adjusted), summed over the trailing four quarters, from 1993; the World Bank's GDP at constant rand before, rescaled to 1993
  • Real GDP per person during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa quarterly GDP via the IMF (constant 2015 prices), summed over the trailing four quarters (the World Bank's yearly GDP before 1993), over Stats SA's mid-year population estimates (the World Bank's before 2002) interpolated to the quarter
  • Average monthly pay during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Employment Statistics (P0277): gross earnings over employees of formal non-agricultural businesses, per month, averaged over the last four quarters (December's bonuses), adjusted for inflation with the CPI; from the third quarter of 2009
  • Unemployment rate during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, from 2008
  • Employment rate during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, the absorption rate, from 2008
  • People employed during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, employed, from 2008
  • Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, headline, all urban areas), change on the same month a year earlier
  • Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa consumer price index via the IMF (CPI, headline, all urban areas, the bureau's base years spliced by the IMF, 2010 = 100)
  • House prices during each president's tenureBIS, selected residential property prices for South Africa, nominal, quarterly
  • Exchange rate during each president's tenureSouth African Reserve Bank, rand per US dollar (the weighted average of the banks' rates at about 10:30 each day), monthly average of the daily rates
  • Population during each president's tenureStatistics South Africa, mid-year population estimates (P0302), the provinces' sum, from 2002; the World Bank's (UN) estimates before, rescaled to 2002
  • Happiness during each president's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
  • Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
  • Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval

Premiers

Mayors

  • Unemployment rate during each mayor's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, the metropolitan municipality, from 2015
  • Employment rate during each mayor's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, the absorption rate, the metropolitan municipality, from 2015
  • People employed during each mayor's tenureStatistics South Africa, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (P0211, trends workbook, Table 2.3), people aged 15-64, the official definition, not seasonally adjusted, employed, the metropolitan municipality, from 2015
  • Population during each mayor's tenureStatistics South Africa, mid-year population estimates by district (P0302), the metropolitan municipality, from 2002

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