TOBACCO CONTROL ECONOMICS
TOBACCO FREE INITIATIVE, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Country Profile:
Russian
Federation
Socioeconomic context
Population (2010 estimate)
Adult population (15+ years)
(2010 estimate)
Income group (2011)
GNI per capita (2009, current US$)
147,103,488
125,603,160
Upper middle income
9,340
Source: World Bank, 2011 and United Nations Population Division, 2010 revision
Tax structure and rates
Pricing and revenues
From January 2011
Mixed Tier Excise System
Specific Excise
Ad Valorem Excise
Prices
Filter cigarettes
280 Rubles per
1,000 cigarettes
Non filter cigarettes
250 Rubles per
1,000 cigarettes
Filter cigarettes
7% of Maximum
retail price
Non-filter cigarettes
7% of Maximum
retail price
Filter
360 Rubles per
1,000 cigarettes
Non-filter
310 Rubles per
1,000 cigarettes
Minimum Excise tax
Source: WHO, personal communication with the Ministry of Finance of Russian Federation, 2010
As of July 2010
Total tax as %
of retail price
Excise tax as %
of retail price
Most sold brand
Marlboro
Cheapest brand
34.98%
30.30%
44.48%
19.73%
15.04%
29.23%
Source: WHO, 2011
Local
Currency
Unity
(LCU)
31.00
48.00
11.00
Year: 2010
Retail price of most sold brand
Retail price of Marlboro
Retail price of cheapest brand
USD
1.03
1.59
0.36
Source: WHO, 2011
Tax revenues (All tobacco products)
Year: 2009
LCU
Excise revenues 79,800,000,000
USD
2,643,530,803
Source: WHO, 2011
Real GDP per capita vs.
real average prices
US
Dollars
10,000
US
Dollars
2.3
1.7
8,000
1.5
6,000
1.3
4,000
1.1
0.9
2,000
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
0
0.7
0.5
Real GDP per capita (USD) – left scale
Real average price (USD) – right scale
Source: WHO calculations based on WHO, TMA and World Bank
data, 2011
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Trade information
Production
Russian Federation’s imports and exports, 2010
Country production, 2009
Trade Flow
Commodity
Export
All tobacco
products
Cigarettes
All tobacco
products
Cigarettes
Import
Trade Value
(U.S. Dollars)
373,897,531
Net Weight (kg)
278,133,169
1,209,031,499
18,280,470
NA
111,113,514
5,825,352
NA
Source: UN Comtrade, DESA/UNSD, 2011
Russian Federation’s main trade partners, 2010
Share of total
exports value
32%
29%
11%
7%
6%
Main import
partners
Brazil
India
Malawi
USA
Turkey
Source: WHO calculations based on UN Comtrade, DESA/UNSD, 2011
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Federation 2/2
Source: ERC, 2010
Major cigarette companies
and market share, 2009
Company name
Japan Tobacco International
Philip Morris International
British American Tobacco
Market
share
36.8%
25.4%
19.9%
Source: ERC, 2010
All tobacco products
Main export
partners
Azerbaijan
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Armenia
Rep. of Moldova
Cigarettes production, pieces (million) 409,000
Share of total
imports value
26%
8%
6%
6%
5%
Illicit trade
Estimate of illicit trade level
(as the percentage of total
cigarette sales)
23.0%
Source: Joossens et al. (2009), based on data from 2004