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Economic Management

President	2021 Final Score	Category Rankings				2021 Overall Rankings
President	2021 Final Score	2021	2017	2009	2000	2021 Overall Rankings
Abraham Lincoln	81.9	1	2	2	3	1
George Washington	80.5	2	1	1	2	2
Franklin D. Roosevelt	75.4	3	5	5	1	3
Theodore Roosevelt	75.0	4	4	4	4	4
William J. Clinton	73.6	5	3	3	5	19
Dwight D. Eisenhower	72.3	6	6	8	8	5
John F. Kennedy	67.9	7	7	6	9	8
Harry S. Truman	67.6	8	10	10	7	6
Barack Obama	64.6	9	8	NA	NA	10
John Adams	63.9	10	15	15	11	15
Thomas Jefferson	62.4	11	13	9	13	7
Woodrow Wilson	62.1	12	9	7	6	13
William McKinley	62.1	13	11	12	14	14
John Quincy Adams	61.0	14	17	16	16	17
Ronald Reagan	60.5	15	16	17	21	9
James K. Polk	60.0	16	14	14	10	18
James Monroe	59.9	17	18	13	20	12
Lyndon B. Johnson	58.5	18	12	11	12	11
William Howard Taft	58.3	19	20	19	18	23
James Madison	57.1	20	19	18	15	16
Calvin Coolidge	56.0	21	22	20	26	24
Grover Cleveland	50.0	22	24	21	19	25
George H. W. Bush	49.8	23	21	23	23	21
Richard M. Nixon	49.5	24	23	22	17	31
Andrew Jackson	49.3	25	26	30	24	22
James A. Garfield	49.2	26	29	29	30	27
Chester A. Arthur	47.9	27	31	26	27	30
Ulysses S. Grant	47.5	28	27	32	37	20
Rutherford B. Hayes	47.2	29	25	24	22	33
Zachary Taylor	46.3	30	28	25	29	35
Benjamin Harrison	45.0	31	32	28	28	32
Warren G. Harding	44.7	32	35	36	36	37
Gerald R. Ford	42.9	33	30	27	25	28
Donald J. Trump	42.7	34	NA	NA	NA	41
George W. Bush	42.2	35	36	40	NA	29
Millard Fillmore	40.3	36	34	34	32	38
Jimmy Carter	37.8	37	33	35	33	26
Franklin Pierce	37.3	38	41	38	38	42
Martin Van Buren	37.2	39	40	33	34	34
John Tyler	36.2	40	39	31	31	39
William Henry Harrison	32.7	41	38	39	39	40
Andrew Johnson	30.8	42	37	37	35	43
James Buchanan	27.8	43	42	42	40	44
Herbert Hoover	26.2	44	43	41	41	36

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