Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Russia

Poverty at the national line in Russia in 2024 — 7.2%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 24. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 21.8 pp.

2024 7.2% −1.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 3of 24
Period maximum 29%2000
Period minimum 7.2%2024

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Russia, 2000–202401020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 29%2001: 27.5%2002: 24.6%2003: 20.3%2004: 17.6%2005: 17.8%2006: 15.2%2007: 13.3%2008: 13.4%2009: 13%2010: 12.5%2011: 12.7%2012: 10.8%2013: 10.8%2014: 11.3%2015: 13.5%2016: 13.3%2017: 13%2018: 12.7%2019: 12.4%2020: 12.2%2021: 11.1%2022: 9%2023: 8.3%2024: 7.2%
Change over the period: −21.8 pp Annual average: -0.91 pp
Poverty at the national line — Russia, by year Russia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 7.2 −1.1 pp
2023 8.3 −0.7 pp
2022 9 −2.1 pp
2021 11.1 −1.1 pp
2020 12.2 −0.2 pp
2019 12.4 −0.3 pp
2018 12.7 −0.3 pp
2017 13 −0.3 pp
2016 13.3 −0.2 pp
2015 13.5 +2.2 pp
2014 11.3 +0.5 pp
2013 10.8 +0 pp
2012 10.8 −1.9 pp
2011 12.7 +0.2 pp
2010 12.5 −0.5 pp
2009 13 −0.4 pp
2008 13.4 +0.1 pp
2007 13.3 −1.9 pp
2006 15.2 −2.6 pp
2005 17.8 +0.2 pp
2004 17.6 −2.7 pp
2003 20.3 −4.3 pp
2002 24.6 −2.9 pp
2001 27.5 −1.5 pp
2000 29

Eastern Europe, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.