OREANDA-NEWS  By the end of 2024, the Gini coefficient in Russia, an indicator showing the uneven distribution of household incomes, increased by 0.3 percentage points to 40.8 percent, thus almost returning to the pre—sanctions level. This is reported by RBC with reference to the Rosstat report "Socio-economic situation of Russia" for January.

The fund ratio has also increased from 14.8 to 15.1, reflecting the gap between the 10 percent of the population with the highest incomes and the 10 percent with the lowest. In 2021, the first indicator reached 49 percent, and the second reached 15.2.

President Vladimir Putin's "May decree" sets a goal to reduce the Gini coefficient to 37 percent by 2030 and to 33 percent by 2036. A section of the Unified Plan for Achieving National Goals is devoted to solving this problem.

The coefficient reached its maximum value in 2007 — 42.2 percent, and if we take the last decade, then in 2018 - 41.4 percent. In 2022, the parameter dropped to a minimum of 39.8 percent, and this year was the first in 20 years when it dropped below 40 percent. Then the inequality started to grow. The fund ratio followed the same trajectory.