Median per capita income
The median per capita income is a monetary income figure relative to which half of the population of the Russian Federation has a per capita income lower than this figure, and the other half has a per capita income higher than this figure, and it is calculated annually by the federal executive authority responsible for forming official statistical information on social, economic, demographic, environmental, and other public processes in the Russian Federation1.
Federal Law No. 134-FZ of October 24, 1997 "On the Minimum Subsistence Level in the Russian Federation", as amended on January 1, 2021, Article 1 // Official Compilation of Legal Acts of the Russian Federation. 1997. No. 43. P. 4904. ↩