Indicators of Sustainable Development and Society’s Life Quality

Some indices widely used in the world practice for assessing the level of development and society's life quality have been considered in this paper. The indices like the gross home product, the index of human potential development have been assessed from the critical position. A number of indices and criteria, which, in the author's opinion, may be used as comparatively objective indicators of state of the most important elements of the socio-ecologo-economic systems have been characterized. Some aspects of life quality in the Russian society in the post-soviet period have been covered from the position of balanced development: very low salary level, growing socio-economic inequality, loss of strategic positions in the defensive-technical sphere, loss of competitive positions in the spheres of scientific and technical development

Human Development Index · Human Development Report · Salary · Sustainable development · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Socioeconomic and Demographic Analysis