About income differentiation of the population in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Ist quarter of 2022

According to the results of a sample survey of households, the share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum (poverty level) in the I quarter of 2022 was 4.6%, that is by 0.1 percentage points lower than in the corresponding period of 2021.

The highest poverty level in the I quarter of 2022 was registered in Turkistan (8.3%), Mangystau regions (6.4%) and Shymkent city (6%), and the lowest level was in Nur-Sultan city (1.7%).

 

 

The risk of poverty is strongly influenced by the size of the household. Thus, the poverty rate among households consisting of 5 or more people according to the results of the first quarter of 2022 amounted to 8.6%, which is almost 2 times higher than the overall poverty rate.

For reference: 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 the first quarter of 2022 amounted to 38,871 tenge.