Tens of millions of people left and stopped being middle class

last year, for the first time since the 1990s, the number of people in the world belonging to the middle class decreased. About 150 million people (comparable, for example, with the population of Great Britain and Germany combined) helery and descended below the socio-economic staircase. The greatest decrease in the number of middle class occurred in South Asia and African countries, Bloomberg writes.

Pew Research Center Research Center believes that you can attribute to the middle class people who receive from 10 to $ 20 per day. The Brookings Institute believes that this figure varies from 10 to 100 dollars a day. The average and above average income has about 2.5 billion people (a third of the world’s population). The pandemic caused a serious blow to the income of people, tens of millions of people stopped being the middle class. For example, in 2020, the number of second class in India has decreased by 32 million people.

Earlier, the business ombudsman Boris Titov called a number of measures that will help create in Russia by 2030 society “middle wealth”. He is confident that this requires a transition from the “resource” and “competitive” model of growth, as well as the creation of modern high-yield jobs in private industries in the non-fermentation sector.

In addition, Titov called on “to ensure economic growth not at the expense of low labor costs, but by increasing the income of the population, the development of the middle class.”

/Media reports.