Kazakhstan is a poor country, the Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Global Wealth reports. The indicator of social welfare shows less than 5 thousand dollars in Kazakhstan per capita a year. 

The research shows that the welfare indicator per person in Kazakhstan is 4441 dollar. However, it was 2349 dollar 17 years ago.

According to the  Research Institute in Switzerland, expect Kazakhstan, the list of low-income countries also included Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan which was under the Soviet Union.  'For most countries lacking direct wealth distribution data, the pattern of wealth distribution was constructed from information on income distribution, based on the view that wealth inequality is likely to be highly correlated with income inequality across countries' research reports.

In the group, the indicator of social welfare between 25-100 thousand dollars has found China, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Libya, Peru and Chile. The USA, Canada, most European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea are in the group with the indicator of social welfare more than 100 thousand dollars per person.

“The Qazaq Times”