Ukrainians began to live poorer than the Chinese

The level of gross national income of China's per capita at purchasing power parity higher than in Ukraine. By the end of 2009 in our country, it was 6180 so-called international dollars, and in China - 6,890 dollars. Such data recently released a Analytical Service of the World Bank, writes the "Mirror of week". At the same time in 2008 on one Ukrainian accounted for 7,270 dollars and the Chinese - 6280. "However, Kiev fell into the pit of the world economic crisis and Beijing it successfully jumped" - says the publication. National income per capita at purchasing power parity shows how many goods and services can be found at their usual income resident of a country. It is very difficult to calculate the index, as needed to determine the price level of all major types of goods and services with the help of special factors to take into account their quality. Furthermore, it should determine the share of different goods and services in the consumer basket of the common citizen of any country in the world. Therefore, for many years the World Bank publishes data on national income in purchasing power parity with the delay of a year. "You can certainly argue that in reality the situation is not so sad, because in Ukraine real national income is much higher than the official due to large scale of shadow economy, and wages in envelopes Ukrainians get much more than the Chinese," - writes ZN. But, on the other hand, the Gini coefficient, which characterizes the degree of irregularity in the distribution of income between rich and poor citizens in Ukraine is higher than in China.