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Statistics committee issues data on poverty levels
throughout Russia
ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 18 September: More than 45m Russian citizens live below the poverty
line. This is just over a third (31.3 per cent) of the country's overall
population.
This data is contained in information released by the Russian Federation's
State Statistics Committee for the second quarter of this year and which
was received by ITAR-TASS news agency today.
In the first quarter of 2001 the numbers of citizens with incomes below the
minimum subsistence level came to 52.9m people.
As for the top end of the minimum subsistence level, in comparison with the
first quarter, it increased on average by eight per cent in the second
quarter and for the population in work it came to R1,635, R1,153 for
pensioners and R1,507 for children.
