Irkutsk population rose to 620 thousand, while the city remains Siberias leader in birth rate. In the first half of 2015, 511 more babies were born than a year earlier.
The population of Irkutsk has increased to 620,000 people. This was reported by the head of the Department of Strategic Development of the Irkutsk City Administration, Alexander Kishko, in his report “On the Review of the Socio-Economic Situation of the City of Irkutsk in the First Half of 2015.”According to the department, Irkutsk remains one of the leaders in the Siberian Federal District in terms of birth rate. In the first half of 2015, 511 more babies were born than in the same period of 2014. The birth rate in Irkutsk was 15.8, which is 0.8 higher than in the Irkutsk Region as a whole and 3.2 higher than in Russia. Mortality rates compared with the first half of 2014 have changed little.
The most populous administrative district is Sverdlovsky, home to every third resident of Irkutsk, or 32.9%. The least populous administrative district of the city is Pravoberezhny, where 19.1% of the population lives.
In the review of the socio-economic situation, the Department of Strategic Development also presented data on the average monthly salary in the city. According to the administration, for large and medium-sized enterprises in Irkutsk, the average salary increased from 38,689.3 rubles to 40,028 rubles, but at the same time the subsistence minimum per person also increased from 7,724 rubles to 9,390.5 rubles.
The number of officially registered unemployed people also increased. At the end of the first half of 2014, their number was 1,197 people; as of July 1 this year, it was 1,636 people. Among the unemployed, there are more women - 57.6%. 21.3% of all registered unemployed are people aged 16 to 29.