Ensuring a Decent standard of living for the Population: opportunities and reality

The subject of the study is the dynamics of the standard of living of the Russian population, including decile groups in household budgets. The purpose of the work is to identify the main trends in solving the problem of achieving a decent standard of living for the population and reducing social inequality. The impact of economic dynamics on the situation of households/families with different income levels is considered; increased income differentiation is revealed, as well as an increase in the share of food costs among families with the lowest incomes, as well as rural populations compared with urban residents. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of the standard of living of pensioners and the lag between pension indexation and price increases. It is emphasized that despite the growth of gross income per capita in the last decade, the same subjects of the Russian Federation are among the poorest regions of the country, which indicates the lack of a proper regional policy of the federal center. Due to the identification of insufficient consideration of signs of malnutrition caused by insufficient or inadequate nutrition in Rosstat indicators and the analysis of the content of Russia’s social policy, conclusions were drawn about the need to strengthen the egalitarianism of social policy and increase the number of signs in the Rosstat malnutrition indicator, indicating the minimum amount of food necessary to maintain the life of the human body.