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Olaf Scholz

Olaf Scholz

🇩🇪Germany

Rank #71
Score: 67
About Olaf Scholz

Olaf Scholz served as Chancellor (2021–2025) and previously held roles as Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance. His tenure emphasized fiscal responsibility, social welfare, and labor law reform, even while navigating geopolitical tension, energy crises, and inflation. He’s seen as a pragmatic technocrat inside the SPD.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
~ 0.947 (Germany)8/10
Source: Euro WHO HDI Explorer (2022 )
GDP per capita
High GDP per capita context7/10
Source: World Metrics Hub – Germany (2023 )
Gini coefficient
~0.323/10
Source: Statista – Gini Germany (2025 )
Employment rate
~61.6%4/5
Source: Statista — Germany employment forecast (2025 )
Freedom index
High civic and political freedoms4/10
Source: Freedom House — Germany (2024 )
Corruption index
CPI ~753/5
Source: Trading Economics — Germany Corruption (2024 )

Derived Criminal Score
No public convictions20/20
Source: Public and press record (2025 )