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Statistics data

Last year of update - 2019. Depth of presentation - 2017-2019
Sources: Rosstat, Petrostat, Federal Tax Service, Tariff Committee of SPb, Finance Committee of SPb, World Bank Group, St. Petersburg Sales Company,  Gazprom, State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal SPb”, Holding “IB GROUP”, SME Corporation
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Population

4580 Bln. rubles
Gross regional product (GRP)
4,16% Gross regional product (GRP)
691 Bln. rubles
Investment in fixed assets, billion rubles
3,50% Investment in fixed assets, billion rubles

Basic tax rates,%
Value added tax (VAT) rate,% 20
Income tax rate,% 20
Corporate property tax rate,% 2.2
Peincome tax rate (personal income tax),% 13

Utility Bills
Electro 4,69
Gas, rubles / 1000 m3 4591
Water supply (drinking water), rubles / m3 23,13
Water disposal, rub / m3 30.6
Removal and disposal of industrial waste, rub / ton 1527.67

Profitability

General information

2017 2018 2019 2020
population, ths people 5352 5384 5398 5386
Employed population, ths. people 3187 3152 3182
Gross regional product (GRP) in basic prices, billion rubles 3825 4194 4580
Gross Domestic Product - data for the RF, billion rubles. 91843 104630 110046
Turnover of enterprises and organizations, million rubles 11743000 13459000 13911000 13750400
Retail trade turnover, billion rubles 1326 1412 1499 1515
Investment in fixed assets, billion rubles 672 853 744 778
Fixed capital investments - data for the Russian Federation, billion rubles. 16027 17782 19329 20188
Average speed of Internet access (data for the Russian Federation), Mbps 34 38 58
Export volume, mln USD 21820 26564 27672 20984
Import volume, USD million 22854 22774 23140 21584

Financial stability of the region

Показатель 2017 2018 2019 2020
The volume of tax revenues to the consolidated budget of St. Petersburg, billion rubles:
Corporate income tax 142 160 264 242
Personal income tax 223 257 276 300,7
Property taxes 51 57 52 52,4
The volume of tax payments and other income of St. Petersburg to the budgetary system of the Russian Federation, billion rubles 1096 1217 1308 1546
of which value added tax (VAT), billion rubles 287 311 411 469,3
Basic rate of payroll charges for the employer,% 53740 60421 65872 68383
Basic rate of payroll charges for the employer,% 30,2 30,2 30,2 30,2
Basic tax rates,%:
Value added tax (VAT) rate,% 18 18 20 20
Income tax rate,% 20 20 20 20
Corporate property tax rate,% 2,2 2,2 2,2 2,2
Personal income tax rate (personal income tax),% 13 13 13 13
Indicators of profitability / unprofitability of organizations by main types 
economic activity for products or services sold,%: 
Agriculture /-0,3 2,2 /-0,1 0,36
Mining 22,9 55,7 34,9 18,9
Manufacturing industries 6,4 5,6 4,7 4,9
Construction 3,9 3,7 5,2 10,54
Wholesale and retail trade 2,6 2,8 3 4,28
Transport and storage 10,3 10,3 8,5 4,59
Information and communication activities 11,8 12,3 11 8,95
Accounts payable of organizations for the main types of economic activity, bln roubles
Agriculture 2,7 2,2 2,1 2,2
Mining 413,3 596,9 481,1 480,6
Manufacturing industries 1776,3 2200,7 2293,6 2657,7
Construction 727,1 789,9 801,4 1051,4
Wholesale and retail trade 914,9 1003,2 913,9 1081,8
Transport and storage 119 177,4 186 287,7
Information and communication activities 96,1 133,4 141,2 157,0

Favorable business environment

Average number of procedures required to register property rights
legal entities and individual entrepreneurs on real estate (data for the Russian Federation), units. 		 9,8 10,1 10,1 10
Average time of connection to power grids (data for the Russian Federation), days 3,7 4 4 4
Average number of procedures required to connect to power grids
(data for RF), units 		 239,3 239,4 193,8 165
Average time to complete the cadastral registration procedure (data for the Russian Federation), days 13,7 14,4 15,1 13 
Average time to complete the cadastral registration procedure (data for the Russian Federation), days нет данных нет данных 4 4
Average time of connection to power grids (data for the Russian Federation), days 160,5 83 73 41
Average number of procedures required to connect to power grids 3 3 2 2
Average time to complete the cadastral registration procedure (data for the Russian 5 5 5 5
Rates:
Electricity (one-rate tariff), RUB / kWh 4,12-4,32 4,32-4,53 4,61-4,75 4,65-4,82
Gas, rubles / 1000 m3 4379 4528 4591
Water supply (drinking water), rubles / m3 23,13 23,13 23,13
Water disposal, rub / m3 25,44 27,99 30,6
Removal and disposal of industrial waste, rub / ton 1449,98 1480,55 1 527,67
Average transaction price for the purchase of industrial land, RUB / m2 1750 - 2270 1600 - 2200 1320 - 1950
Average cost of renting office space, rubles / m2 per month 950 - 1700 1050 - 1800 1140 - 1880 1045
Average cost of renting industrial premises, rubles / m2 per month 400-450 420 - 500 470-550 422

Small and Medium Business Indicators

2017 2018 2019 2020
Number of small businesses (including microenterprises) 237 931 232890 210361 341576
Number of medium-sized enterprises 1566 1415 1257 1350
Average number of employees employed in small businesses, thousand people
Small businesses (including micro businesses) 732,5 717,2 725,9 960,2
Medium enterprises 82,6 94,4 81,2 116,3
The amount of subsidies provided under the Subsidy Program of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
 to small and medium-sized businesses, million rubles. 
Number of small businesses (including microenterprises) 3924281 4149524 4478088
Medium enterprises 663705 711778 637822
The amount of subsidies provided under the Subsidy Program of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
 to small and medium-sized businesses, million rubles. 		 нет данных 2 384,20 37 996,20
The amount of tax incentives provided to organizations and individuals нет данных нет данных 10748
Amount of financing with guarantee support of the National Guarantee System
small and medium-sized businesses, million rubles. 		 нет данных 22 768,20 30 956,70
The amount of funding for measures to support small and medium-sized businesses
 at the expense of the budgets of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, thousand rubles. 		 144522 101500 нет данных
The total consolidated volume of financial support for small and medium-sized
 entrepreneurship, million rubles. 		 нет данных 26 175,50 68 128,30
The volume of purchases by the largest customers from small and medium-sized 47 794 104 837 114 916
The volume of loans issued to small and medium-sized businesses under
 surety of the Fund for Assistance to Lending to Small and Medium Business, RUB mln. 		 8228 8743 6064
The volume of direct loans to small and medium-sized businesses 29100 49150 82940
Average annual interest rate on loans for small businesses 12,9 10,8 10,7 7,62

Geography and transport accessibility

2017 2018 2019 2020
Region area, thousands of km2  1,4
Total length of public roads, km 3508,2 3536,4 3566,7 3580,2
Number of railway stations, units 5
Number of airports, units 3
Passenger turnover of the PULKOVO airport, mln.pas. 19,58 - 19,58 10,94
Air freight turnover, million ton-km 34,6 34,6 35,4 23,9
Number of ports, units 7
Cargo turnover of the Big Sea Port, thousand tons 59800 - 59870 59880
Distance to the border with the European Union, km 350