Russian Federation
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| Russia | |
 Flag of Russia | |
| Population (In Millions) | 141.75 |
| Human Development Index | 66/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 1,479.82 |
| Global Peace Index | 147/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 108/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | - /86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 69/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 9.1 |
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Contents |
Main Progress Initiatives
State Committee on Statistics (Goskomstat)
National Human Development Report 2011 for the Russian Federation 'Modernization and Human Development'
The main goal of the 2011 Human Development Report is to study the tasks of modernization in the context of human development, highlighting the necessity for the modernization of Russia’s economy and social sphere and enhancement of its institutions. This approach is a logical continuation of the previous Reports. The 2011 Report identifies the basic components of modernization, addresses main parameters of the post-crisis economy and social challenges in Russia and analyzes the development of social and institutional infrastructure to determine the role of human development in Russia’s ‘new economy’.
This report was commissionned by UNDP and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and monitored by the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for the Russian Federation is 0.005. The MPI is an international measure of acute poverty covering 109 countries. The MPI reflects the multiple deprivations that poor people face at the same time in three dimensions: health, education and living standards. The MPI reflects both the incidence or headcount ratio (H) of poverty – the proportion of the population that is multidimensionally poor – and the average intensity (A) of their poverty – the average proportion of indicators in which poor people are deprived. More information on the MPI in the Russian Federation is available here.
Happiness in Russia
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Russia.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Russia [1]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress Papers and Publications
Multidimensional Analysis of Macro-Sustainability of Russia Shmelev (2010)
Russia has experienced twenty years of economic and social change, which had a substantial impact on the regional and sectoral patterns of the development of it’s economy. Infrastructure, the quality of the environment and the wellbeing of it’s people. The current economic revival offers new opportunities and presents new challenges fro the sustainable development of Russia. The paper employs the UN Sustainable development frameworks of indicators and assesses sustainability of Russia using multi-criteria evaluation methods. The uncertainly randomization multi-criteria evaluation method ASPID was applied for the sustainability analysis. The analysis covers economic, environmental and social trends in Russia’s development in 1991-2005 and assesses sustainability of it’s development from the point of view of multiple criteria. The results show the potential of employment of multi-criteria methods for sustainability assessment at the macro level and offer useful insights into multidimensional nature of sustainability and the role of priority setting in evaluation process.
Past events
Russian Federal Service of State Statistics (ROSSTAT) in collaboration with the Academy of Labour and Social Relations and the OECD held a conference in Moscow on 29-30 September 2008, Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies: A New Approach for Russia and Neighbouring Countries.
Also available as background, a concept note and the participants list.
Human Development reports
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) HDRs (in Excel format)
Modernization and the Society, 2007 Evgeny Yasin, Higher School of Economics-Moscow
