Quality of Life of the Population in the Context of Balanced Development of the Country’s Regions

Abstract

The article investigates how the quality of life of the region's population is determined through indicators that characterise various areas of its development. For this purpose, national ratings are studied, and methods of comparative and statistical analysis are applied. Conclusions are drawn that achieving a high level in each block of targets (economic, social, environmental) to achieve a high quality of life of the population is an impossible task for most regions of our country. Russia's regions can be divided into groups, where either economic, social, or environmental conditions of development are decisive. Since the quality of life is more of a subjective concept, each person selects for himself the priorities that he puts in the basis of his life, and, accordingly, chooses a particular place of residence where he can meet his needs. For the most part, these are socio-economic priorities. Environmental characteristics of the region for the population begin to play a significant role when environmental problems are of a crisis nature, public consciousness is developed, and economic and social indicators of regional development are above average. That is why the region's place in the rating of the quality of life at the current stage of Russia's development is determined more by economic indicators than by social or environmental ones.