Moscow residents received 237.5 thousand payday loans in 2023 Loans for two to three weeks up to 30 thousand rubles. several hundred percent per year total 2.6 billion rubles. This is 5.1% of the total number of loans granted and 6.1% of the total volume of loans granted for 2023. Capital has become a leader in the number and volume of microloans received. This is stated in a study by the microfinance company Zaimer, which is owned by socialbites.ca.
In second place is St. Petersburg, which is two times inferior to Moscow in terms of similar indicators. Petersburg is located. Last year, in total, St. 118.4 thousand loans totaling 1.2 billion rubles were issued to residents of St. Petersburg. This is 2.5% of the number of issues and 2.8% of the volume nationwide.
The next three places with similar indicators are Omsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. The share of cities with more than a million people in the total number of advance loans granted in 2023 was 1.3 percent, 1.2 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively.
In addition, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Chelyabinsk and Ufa were among the top 10 cities according to the number of microcredits. Their share in the total number of issues did not exceed 1 percent and fluctuates around 0.9 percent.
“Statistics fully correspond to the geographical distribution of the population in Russia; most citizens live in large cities, so they account for the main percentage of problems,” the company’s analysts said.
In March 2024, Seimer conducted a study at MFC. Analysts examined cash advance loan applications across the country for 2023 and found in which cities the most issuances took place.
Previously “socialbites.ca” saidThe likelihood of Russians requesting a large loan of 50 thousand rubles has halved.