OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2012. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, adjusted to inflation the incomes grew 5,4%. The salary remained the most important source of incomes in 2011, being 44,7% of the total income of the population, 2,1 p.p. up as compared with 2010. Social allowances were the second important income source.

They made up 18,1% of the total income of the population, staying unchanged as compared with 2010. Incomes from individual agricultural activity were 10,0% (+ 0,2 p.p.); incomes from individual nonagricultural activities made 6,8% and stayed unchanged. Remittances from abroad made up 15,3%, 3 p.p. up as compared with 2010. In urban areas the principal source of incomes was a salary which made 57,3% of total incomes.

Social allowances made up 15,2%. In rural areas the most important source of incomes was a salary too which made 30,6%, with social allowances being 19,6%. As compared to the urban population the rural one was more dependent from remittances from abroad the share of which made 19,7% of incomes received by the rural population in 2011 against 11,3% received by the urban population.

In the structure of incomes those expressed in monetary terms were dominant. They made 88,6% (1279,8 leis ) whereas incomes expressed in natural terms were 11,4% (164,9 leis). Monetary incomes made up 96,2% of the total ones receive by the urban population and 80,1% of those received by the rural one.