Assessment of the Contribution of the Non-profit Sector to the Russian Economy: Opportunities for Further Development

Tatyana A. Ilyushnikova – Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Svyatoslav O. Sorokin – Director of Department for Social Services and Non-Profit Sector Development, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Antonina D. Levashenko – Senior Researcher of the Institute of International Economics and Finance, Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ivan S. Ermokhin – Researcher of the Institute of International Economics and Finance, Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Kirill A. Chernovol – Researcher of the Institute of International Economics and Finance, Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Currently, the contribution of the non-profit sector to the economy is not systematically assessed in Russia. This is hindered both by the absence in the Russian system of national accounts of an auxiliary (satellite) account for contributions to the economy of the non-profit sector (the methodology for compiling such accounts was developed by the UN back in 2003), and by the insufficiency of existing statistical indicators in Russia for a full analysis of such a contribution. Based on world practice, the author’s methodology for assessing this contribution is proposed and the results of its application to the available data of 2021 are presented. The total contribution of NGOs to GDP in 2021 is about 1.5%.

Key words: Russian economy, non-profit sector, non-profit organizations, NGOs, methodology for assessing the contribution of NGOs to GDP, UN.

JEL-codes: L31, E20.