Russia Poverty Rate

Russia poverty rate for 2021 was 2.20%, a 0.2% increase from 2020.
  • Russia poverty rate for 2020 was 2.00%, a 1% decline from 2019.
  • Russia poverty rate for 2019 was 3.00%, a 0.2% increase from 2018.
  • Russia poverty rate for 2018 was 2.80%, a 0.9% decline from 2017.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Russia Poverty Rate Datasets (CSV).