The abstract is dedicated to the 20-th anniversary of creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States and presents comparable statistical materials characterizing socio-economic situation in the Commonwealth countries for the period 1991-2010. It includes information on population, employment, gross domestic product and other macroeconomic
indicators, prices, output of basic industrial and agricultural products, consumer market, consumption of main foodstuffs, money income and expenditure of population, social sphere, external trade, international comparisons.