In 2020, 24.6 percent of Russians (36 million people) had an income below 60 percent of the median. This is stated in the Finexpertiza study, which is at the disposal of “Lental.ru”.
Thus, almost a quarter of Russians can be attributed to the category of low-income. According to the international methodology, people with advising incomes risk face poverty. Such Russians are twice as much as “officially poor” (under the Russian definition of poverty fall those whose monthly income does not reach the subsistence minimum).
Most of all people with low income relative to their region turned out to be in the oil and gas Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and the Nenets Autonomous District, as well as in Moscow, in Chukotka and Sakhalin. The smallest share of the population with income below 60 percent of the median was in Karachay-Cherkessia, Kostroma region, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Khakassia and Ingushetia.
Medicated income – the median value above which there are 50 percent of the population, and in the other half of the population below. Russians receiving less than 50 percent of such income, about 17.6 percent, that is, about every sixth resident of the country. In 2020, the median income on average in the country was 27 thousand rubles, 60 percent of this amount – 16.2 thousand, 50 percent – 13.5 thousand rubles.
Russia was able to overcome the extreme poverty, but the poverty in the country could not yet be able to win. The standard of living of the population as a whole decreased, and the pandemic strengthened the property stratification, “said Finexpertiza President Elena Trubnikov.