About income differentiation of the population in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the second 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 II quarter of 2022 was 5.1%, that is by 0.3 percentage points lower than in the corresponding period of 2021.

 

* Estimates are given for the Abai, Almaty, Zhetysu, Karaganda, Ulytau and East Kazakhstan regions.

 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 9.3%, 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 43,100 tenge. 

 

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