SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL MUNICIPAL AREAS OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION
The region's economy is a complex multi-element form of organizing the national economy in a certain local area. The key structural elements in the region are urban and rural municipalities, the socio-economic state of which determines the development of the region as a whole. At the same time, the assessment of the socio-economic state of rural municipalities in the region is an important component of the assessment of sustainable development of territories, since it reflects, on the one hand, the potential and resources of the region, and on the other, problem points and crisis processes in the field. It is especially important to conduct this assessment in the formation of municipal strategic documents and regulations reflecting trends in socio-economic development in the long term, one of the vectors of which is digital transformation. This article presents the key socio-economic indicators of the state of rural municipal districts of the Nizhny Novgorod region. At the same time, as rural municipal areas, the authors adopted municipal areas in which the rural population is at least 70% of the total. The presented indicators were formed according to the data of the Territorial Body of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Nizhny Novgorod Region for 2019 (in the absence of the indicator value for 2019, the indicator (a number of indicators) for 2015 - 2018 is presented).