On the differentiation of income of the population in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2022

According to the household survey, the share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum in 2022 was 5.2%.

The highest values of the poverty level by region in 2022 were recorded in Turkestan (9.7%) and Mangistau (8.1%) regions, the lowest – in Nur-Sultan (1.9%).

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 4%, and in rural areas – 7.3%.The most difference between the level of urban and rural poverty in 2022 was observed in Mangystau(5.4 times), Shygys Kazakhstan (4 times) regions.

 

«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 2022 amounted to 43 566 tenge. At the same time, each region calculates its own level of the subsistence minimum»