inflation rate exceeded 60%. The unemployment rate of the population, determined by
the ILO methodology, grew from 7.3% to 9.3% of the economically active population
in the age group of 15-70 years. According to estimates of the Ministry of Social Policy
[26] the actual cost of living in prices in January 2016 per month per capita was 2,482
USD (with the amount of personal income - 2,676 USD).
Thus, the official average of the subsistence minimum per person, established in
January 2016, Art. 7 of the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2016"
[27], low compared to the actual size of the subsistence minimum per person in 1152
UAH or 86.6%, and for the working people - to 1168 UAH or 84.8%.
The minimum wage (UAH 1378) was 55% of the actual living wage for able-
bodied persons, taking into account compulsory payments (UAH 2482).
UN experts ranked 75% of the population of Ukraine as poor [23]. According to
various experts, the gap in the incomes of the rich and poor population of Ukraine
reaches 40 times, which poses a threat to the national security of the country and social
stability. In our country, 1% of the population owns 70% of the country's wealth.
Table analysis results 2 indicate that existing disposable income per person in
2016 compared to 2015 has significant differences. The growth of this type of revenue
in 2016 took place in Volyn, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv regions on average 3736 USD.,
But a significant decrease can be observed in such Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk
and other regions of Ukraine. At the same time, a significant gap in the aggregate
incomes of the population by regions was maintained. The difference between the
maximum and the minimum aggregate incomes of the population of regions for 2016
reaches 121363 million UAH, in 2015 this difference is 119804 million UAH. In
general, in Ukraine, the level of income from 2015 to 2016 increased by 95987 million
UAH.
In the period 2014-2015, the best values of the welfare of the population are such
areas as Zakarpattia, Kiev, Lviv, Odessa; remain at one level in comparison with the
previous year Volyn, Donetsk, Mykolayiv and other regions; The decline in the welfare
of the population took place in Vinnitsa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Luhansk and
Chernivtsi regions (Table 2). In 2014, the highest GRP per capita was produced in
Vinnytsya (141.6%), Zhytomyr (126.6%), Ternopil (151.1%) and Kyiv (125.5%)
oblasts.
Among other regions characterized by high values of GRP per capita, this
indicator decreased in 2016 compared to 2015 (Dnipropetrovsk - by 0.9%, Zaporozhye
- by 0.7%, Sumy - by 3.2%, Kherson - by 2.7%, etc.). However, the growth of this
indicator in 2015 was in Transcarpathian - by 1.9%, Ivano-Frankivsk - by 5.2%,
Kirovograd region - by 4.4%, Poltava region - by 5.2%. The value of the GRP for
Ukraine in general in 2015 compared with 2014 increased by 4.2%. The high
coefficients of the regional variation of the indicator also remained stable, varying from
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