Minister of Regional Development Igor Slyunyayev said that in 2012 the most effective executive bodies were in the Nenets Autonomous Area, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, Moscow, St Petersburg and the Voronezh Region.
The twenty regions that scored the highest on the comprehensive performance evaluation account for 52.7% of the country’s gross regional product and approximately 35% of Russia’s total population.
Regions were also ranked by the level and pace of development, with the Nenets Autonomous Area and the Republic of Tatarstan topping the list. The Voronezh Region and the Chechen Republic were also among the top twenty.
Minister Slyunyayev explained that this year the comprehensive performance evaluation consisted of 12 indicators reflecting the rate of economic modernisation, growth of investment activities, and standard of living. Economic indicators included private investment, sales and services by small business, tax and non-tax revenues received by a region’s consolidated budget, and the commissioning of new housing. Social indicators included real wages, the unemployment rate, expected lifespan, mortality rate, population growth, measures to prevent orphanhood and provide different forms of placement into families for children left without parental care, , and pupils’ scores on the Unified State Exam.
The Minister pointed out that the birth rate equaled the death rate in 2012.
On average across the nation, 36.4% of people expressed satisfaction with the performance of regional executive bodies in 2012. It’s a 0.8% increase over 2011 and the highest figure in the past three years.
