The number of the Russian population with incomes below the subsistence level for the first quarter 2015 increased by 3.1 million people when compared to the first quarter of 2014. Total in our country people are officially be called the poor – 22.9 million people, writes “Rossiyskaya Gazeta».
A significant increase in the level of poverty in the first quarter of 2015 as compared with a year ago due to the observed a significant increase in the size of a living wage as a result of high inflation. Living costs in the first quarter of 2015 rose to 9000 662 rubles per person per month from 7000 688 rubles in the first quarter of 2014.
Thus, the level of poverty in Russia in the first three months of 2015 grew directly up 15.9 percent compared to 13.8 percent for the same period last year. At the same time it can be even more – see the information in 2015 and 2014 does not include data on the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
The level of poverty in the beginning of the year is always higher. The reason is that at the end of the year to pay various bonuses, power-ups and “13th salary».
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