160

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Demography
8.9 8.8
10
8.7

8
Minor Axis: Years
Population (in millions)

120

Rate (in percentage)

6

80 72 4
69 69
65

1.9 1.8
1.2
1.6 2
40 0.4
0 0
-0.4 0

148.29 146.6 142.85 144.48

0 -2
1990 2000 2010 2018
Year
Population (in millions) Life Expectancy at birth
Population Growth rate Fertility Rate
Population Density (per sq. km)
Inference:
• Fertility rate lower than world Average of 2.4
• Population growth rate slightly lower than world average of
1.09%.
• Life expectancy at birth is lower than world average of 72.06
years. Source: IMF, 2019 & The World Bank, 20
 Human and Political Rights
Not Free
• Authoritarian Country.
• Loyalist security forces.
• Controlled media
environment.
• Subservient judiciary.
• Pliable Opposition.
• Manipulative elections.
• Suppressing genuine
dissent.
• Rampant corruption.
CIVIL LIBERTIES: 15 / 60 •Political
Weak freedom
Rights:of5 religion.
/ 40
• Freedom of expression and belief: •• Electoral
Under reported
Process: 0 / domestic
12
3 / 16 Violence. Pluralism
• Political and
o Free and independent media? 0 / 4 Participation: 3 / 16
Rank 148 / 183 (Press Freedom • Functioning of Government:
Index) 2 / 12
o Free to practice and express their • Freedom of assembly? 1 / 4
religious faith ¼ • Freedom of Human Rights
o associational and organizational NGOsFreedom
Source: 0/4 House Report, 20
Global Human Rights Map

Source: Freedom House Report, 20

 Economy
GDP by Sector (2017)
• Russia has an upper-middle
• Agriculture: 4.7%
income mixed and transition • Industry: 32.4%
• Services: 62.3%
economy.
GDP (2018) Ruble
• Currency: Currency Exchange Rate: $1 =
• Nominal $1.65 trillion (11th)
• PPP $4.213 trillion (6th) 63.34 Ruble
GDP (per capita) (2018) Fiscal
Ease of deficit: Consolidated
Doing Business Rank:Fiscal
31st
• Nominal $10,743.10 (60th) Balance registered a surplus equal to
(2019)
2.9 % of its Nominal GDP in Dec 2018.
• PPP $27,834 (49th)
compared with a deficit equal to 1.5 %
Gini coefficient : 37.7 (medium) in 2017 (CEIC, 2019).
Inflation (CPI): 2.878% (2018)
Gross External Debt- $539.6 billion
Government
(2017) Bond Interest Rate
The Russian monetary system is
• 10 Year Bond – 7.33%
managed by the Bank of Russia
• 1 Year Bond – 6.71%
FDI Stock - $535.2 billion (2017)
• Current Repo Rate – 7.25%
Unemployment: 4.5% (2018)
• Reverse Repo Rate – 7.33%
urce: IMF, 2019 & The World Bank, 2019 Federal State Statistics Service, 2019
Source:
 The GDP was
GDP
worth 1657.60
billion US dollars
in 2018. The GDP
value of Russia
represents 2.67
percent of the
world economy.
GDP in Russia
averaged 933.62
The GDP grew USDGrowth
GDP Annual Billion Rate
from
by 0.5 percent 1988 until 2018.
year-on-year in
the first quarter
of 2019, easing
from a 2.7
percent
expansion
reported in the
previous period
and in line with
rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019
preliminary
D to Ruble conversion rate

Large current account surpluses
caused rapid real appreciation of the
Ruble between 2000 and 2008.

The USD RUB decreased 0.0758 or 0.12% to 63.3292 on Tuesday

July 30 from 63.4050 in the previous trading session. Historically,
the Russian Ruble reached an all time high of 6882.86 in July of
2019 and a record low of 1358.50 in November of 1992.
rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019
onsumer Price Index CPI increased to
588.70 Index
Points in June
from 588.50 Index
Points in May of
2019. Consumer
Price Index CPI in
Russia averaged
234.45 Index
Points from 1992
Inflation rate
Large current
until 2019
account surpluses
caused rapid
real appreciation 
of the Ruble
between 2000 and
2008. Bank of
Russia attempted
to combat this
trend by
aggressively
accumulating
rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019
foreign currency
overnment Debt to GDP Russia recorded a
government debt
equivalent to
13.50 percent of
the country's
Gross Domestic
Product in 2017.
Government Debt
to GDP in Russia
averaged 22.11
percent from
Government Government Spending
1999.
Spending in
Russia decreased
to 4035.60 RUB
Billion in the first
quarter of 2019
from 4067.40
RUB Billion in the
fourth quarter of
2018.
rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019
Military Expenditure Military
Expenditure in
Russia decreased
to 64193 USD
Million in 2018
from 66527 USD
Million in 2017.
Military
Expenditure in
Russia averaged
44577.67 USD
Government Budget Valu
Russia recorded a Million from 1992
government until 2018.
budget surplus of
1561.07 RUB
Billion in June of
2019. Government
Budget Value in
Russia averaged
377.06 RUB
Billion from 1998
rce: Federal
until 2019.State Statistics Service, 2019
 Russia Consolidated Fiscal Balance: % of GDP
Russia Consolidated Fiscal Balance: % of GDP
2
1.43

1
0.38

0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Rate (in %age)

-1 -1.16
-1.46
-1.7

-2
-2.92
-3 -3.42 -3.38
-3.63

-4

-5

-6-6.31

-7

Year

rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019

 Credit Rating
Standard & Poor’s
(2017)
• BB+ (Domestic)
• BBB- (Foreign)
• BB+ (T&C
Assessment)
Moody's(2017)
• Outlook: Positive
• Ba1
• Outlook: Stable
Fitch (2017)
• BBB-
• Outlook: Positive
Scope (2017)
• BBB-
• Outlook: Positive
Foreign Reserves
(2019)
• $502.7 billion

rce: Federal State Statistics Service, 2019

 Natural Resource profile
Natural resources snapshot
• Estimates suggests that Russia
contains over 30 percent of the
world's natural resources
(World Bank, 2017)
• Estimated total value of natural
resources at $75 trillion (World
Bank, 2017)
• Russia is the largest diamond-
producing nation in the world
accounting for 25% of global
output.
• The considerable potential of
Russian forests is underutilized
and Russia's share of the global
trade in forest products is less
than 4% (FAO, 2017).
Energy Super power
• Member of OPEC+
• Largest proven Natural Gas
Reserves and largest exporter
of Natural Gas.
• 2nd largest exporter of Source: IMF, 2019 & The World Bank, 20
rude Oil Production Crude Oil
Production in
Russia decreased
to 10895
BBL/D/1K in
March from
10931 BBL/D/1K
in February of
2019. Crude Oil
Production in
Russia averaged
Gold Reserves in Russia 8401.25 BBL/D/1K
Russia recorded a
government from 1992 until
budget surplus of 2019
1561.07 RUB
Billion in June of
2019. Government
Budget Value in
Russia averaged
377.06 RUB
Billion from 1998
until 2019.