Structural Slowdown: in 2022–2025 the Contribution of Fundamental Production Factors to GDP Dynamics Will Decrease[Структурное Замедление: В 2022–2025 Гг. Вклад Фундаментальных Факторов Производства В Динамику Ввп Снизится]

The GDP growth decomposition shows that the imposition of sanctions and macroeconomic turmoil in early 2022 led to a 1 percentage point slowdown in Russia’s structural growth. Stagnation of structural growth rates at the level of about 0.3–0.4 p.p. is expected up to 2025. In 2022 foreign trade component is expected to make largest positive contribution to GDP growth rates at the level of 1.3 p.p., while the market component (business cycle plus random shocks) will decrease to minus 9.5 p.p. which is comparable to the value achieved during the global financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009. Russian economy’s recovery in 2023–2025 will be provided mostly not by fundamental factors of production (due to a significant decrease in the level of economy’s productivity), but by relatively unstable components of output dynamics: contribution of the market component to economic growth rates will be about 2.5–2.8 p.p. in 2024–2025 (with contribution of minus 1.5 p.p. in 2023), foreign trade component will gradually decrease and is expected to reach zero level by 2024. The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.