The highest level of poverty in 2021 was recorded in Turkestan and Mangystau regions

According to the household survey, the share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum in 2021 was 5.2% (in 2020 – 5.3%).

The highest values of the poverty level by region in 2021 were recorded in Turkestan (9.8%) and Mangistau (8.6%) regions, the lowest – in Nur-Sultan (2.2%).

 The share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum by region in 2021

in percentage

Significant income gap in urban and rural areas persists. Thus, in urban areas, the share of the population whose income below the subsistence minimum was 3.8%, and in rural areas – 7.2%. The most difference between the level of urban and rural poverty in 2021 was observed in Atyrau (9.1 times), Mangystau (4.3 times) regions.

The share of the population with incomes below

the subsistence minimum in urban and rural areas by region in 2021

in percentage

«The level of poverty is determined by the ratio of the population with incomes used for consumption below the subsistence minimum as a percentage of the total population.The cost of living on average per capita per month in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2021 amounted to 37,266 tenge. At the same time, each region calculates its own level of the subsistence minimum», added Natalia Belonosova, Director of the Department of Labor Statistics and Living Standards of the Bureau of National Statistics of ASPiR RK.

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