Several regions of the North Caucasus Federal District are among the top ten outsiders in socio-economic development

Ingushetia took 83rd place out of 85 regions of the Russian Federation in the socio-economic development rating for 2024, published by RIA Novosti. Karachay-Cherkessia is in 80th place, North Ossetia is in 78th place, and Kabardino-Balkaria is in 77th place. Chechnya is in 75th place.

Among the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District, the best situation is in Dagestan and Stavropol: the regions are in 62nd and 27th positions, respectively. Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Tatarstan remain the leaders of the rating. Tuva and the Jewish Autonomous Region took the last lines.

The study is based on the aggregation of various indicators of the socio-economic situation of the regions, divided into four groups: indicators of the scale of the economy, the efficiency of the economy, the budgetary sphere, and the social sphere. The main parameters include the volume of production of goods and services, budget revenues, the number of people employed in the economy, investment in fixed capital per capita, the unemployment rate, life expectancy, etc.

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