Human potential of Russian regions

Solving the task of economy modernization depends much on the quality of human resource. Quality of human potential in regional aspect in Russia is investigated by different research institutes. The main emphasis in the work is made on indicators of the quality of human potential of Russian regions, selection and analysis of indicators characterizing the demographic situation, health, education and well-being of population. There are given the results of experimental calculations of separate indicators and of integral (composite) index of human potential performed on the data from Rosstat by the RF subjects for 2011. It was found that only 4 regions meet the requirements of modernization by all characteristics and 20 regions can participate in the process of modernization by raising simultaneously the quality of separate characteristics of human potential. As to the rest subjects of Federation, and first of all regions with low quality of human potential, it is necessary to tackle in the first line the problems of the quality of life of population.