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Incomes Nearly 10x Higher in Richest Areas than Poorest
The difference between the maximum (in Moscow) and minimum (in Ingushetia) average per capita incomes in the Russian Federation in the first half of the year was 9.8 times, according to Rosstat, the state statistics service. The coefficient of variation was a high 44.2 percent. Incomes in the first half of the year increased compared to the first half of last year everywhere except the Nenets and Koryak Autonomous Areas. The greatest increases (over 20 percent) were found in Ingushetia, Kalmykia, Ust-Ordynsky Autonomous Area and Moscow and Kaluga Regions.
The pace of growth of real salaries increased everywhere except in Magadan Region and the Koryak Autonomous Area. It showed the greatest increase (over 25 percent) in Voronezh and Moscow Regions and Ust-Ordynsky Autonomous Area. The coefficient of variation was 3.8 percent. The real size of pensions rose everywhere in the country in the first half of the year, as to the same period of last year. The greatest increases (over 7 percent) were seen in Khabarovsk and Maritime Territories, St. Petersburg, Chukotka and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.
Chechnya and Ingushetia led the country in unemployment in the first half of the year with rates of 63.1 percent and 36 percent of the workforce, respectively. The lowest unemployment rates (less than 0.9 percent) were found in Krasnodar Territory, Moscow, Smolensk, Tula, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and Orenburg Regions, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The coefficient of variation was 73.7 percent, excluding Chechnya and Ingushetia. Unemployment declined in the first half of the year as compared to the same period last year in all areas except Ingushetia, Sakha (Yakutia) and Arkhangelsk Region.
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