The Russians have found a higher than average incomes

The World Bank took Russia to the countries with incomes above the average. ITAR-TASS reported with reference to the report of an international financial institution dedicated to world economic development in 2011. The income level for each of the states in the study is not fixed, ITAR-TASS. For the group to which the researchers attributed the World Bank Russia, established a minimum of 3 000 946 dollars per person per year, while the maximum - 12,000 $ 195. In one group, with Russia were the former Soviet republics, included in the study, in particular, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Lithuania. The countries where the average annual income exceeds 12 000 196 dollars, included two other former Soviet republics - Latvia and Estonia. Most of the statistical data presented in the study relate to the period from the end of 1990 to 2009. In particular, according to the World Bank in 1998, almost a third of Russians lived below the poverty line, and 4 years later - 19.6 percent. Then on less than $ 2 per day did not live more than two percent of Russians. World Bank - a major international organization, "providing financial assistance to developing countries" (from the data about the organization, published on the site of the World Bank).