Per capita income in the Soviet Union as a share of Western European income 1950-2000
By 2000, however, these figures had dropped below a quarter of Western Europe's income per capita. Most of this downturn occurred before 1996, and the economic situation in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states began to improve in the final years of the century. It would take another few years before the economic situation of the other former-Soviet states would also begin to stabilize.