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Economy of Belarus

Economy of Belarus
Minsk, the financial capital of Belarus
CurrencyBelarusian ruble (BYN, Rbl)
Calendar year
Trade organisations
CIS, EAEU, CISFTA
Country group
Statistics
PopulationDecrease 9,408,350 (1 January 2020)[3]
GDP
  • Decrease $69 billion (nominal, 2024 est.)[4]
  • Increase $235 billion (PPP, 2024 est.)[4]
GDP rank
GDP growth
  • 3.9% (2023)
  • 2.4% (2024)
  • 1.1% (2025)[4]
GDP per capita
  • Decrease $7,558 (nominal, 2024 est.)[4]
  • Increase $25,685 (PPP, 2024 est.)[4]
GDP per capita rank
GDP by sector
GDP by component
  • household consumption: 54.8%
  • government consumption: 14.6%
  • investment in fixed capital: 24.9%
  • investment in inventories: 5.7%
  • exports of goods and services: 67%
  • imports of goods and services: −67%
  • (2017 est.)[5]
6.3% (2024 est.)[4]
Population below poverty line
  • Positive decrease 5.6% (2018)[6]
  • Steady 0.4% on less than $5.50/day (2020f)[7]
Positive decrease 25.2 low (2018)[8]
Decrease 37 out of 100 points (2023)[10] (98th)
Labour force
  • Decrease 4,975,430 (2019)[11]
  • Increase 67.5% employment rate (2018)[12]
Labour force by occupation
UnemploymentPositive decrease 4.8% (2018)[13]
Average gross salary
Br 2,026 (€578) (2024-02)[14]
Br 1,745 (€498) (2024-02)[14]
Main industries
metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earthmovers, motorcycles, synthetic fibers, fertilizer, textiles, refrigerators, washing-machines and other household appliances Agricultural products: grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax; beef, milk
External
ExportsIncrease $28.65 billion (2017 est.)[5]
Export goods
Main export partners
ImportsIncrease $31.58 billion (2017 est.)[5]
Import goods
Main import partners
FDI stock
  • Decrease $6.929 billion (31 December 2016 est.)[5]
  • Decrease Abroad: $3.547 billion (31 December 2016 est.)[5]
Increase −$931 million (2017 est.)[5]
Negative increase $39.92 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[5]
Public finances
Positive decrease 53.4% of GDP (2017 est.)[5]
+2.9% (of GDP) (2017 est.)[5]
Revenues22.15 billion (2017 est.)[5]
Expenses20.57 billion (2017 est.)[5]
Increase $7.315 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[5]
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars.
Change in per capita GDP of Belarus, 1973–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars.

The economy of Belarus is an upper-middle income mixed economy.[2] As a post-Soviet transition economy, Belarus rejected most privatisation efforts in favour of retaining centralised political and economic controls by the state.[19] The highly centralized Belarusian economy emphasizes full employment and a dominant public sector. It has been described as a welfare state[20] or market socialist.[21] Belarus is the world's 74th-largest economy by GDP.

As of 2018, Belarus ranks 53rd from 189 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index, and appeared in the group of states with "very high development". With an efficient health system, it has a very low infant-mortality rate of 2.9 (compared to 6.6 in Russia or 3.7 in the United Kingdom). The rate of doctors per capita is 40.7 per 10,000 inhabitants (the figure is 26.7 in Romania, 32 in Finland, 41.9 in Sweden) and the literacy rate is estimated[by whom?] at 99%. According to the United Nations Development Program, the Gini coefficient (inequality indicator) is one of the lowest in Europe.[22]

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  3. ^ "Population on 1 January". ec.europa.eu/eurostat. Eurostat. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "World Economic Outlook Database, April 2024". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "EUROPE :: BELARUS". CIA.gov. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) - Belarus". data.worldbank.org. World Bank. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  7. ^ Europe Central Asia Economic Update, Spring 2020: Fighting COVID-19. World Bank. 9 April 2020. pp. 43, 44. ISBN 978-1-4648-1564-5. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  8. ^ "WorldBank, 2017". worldbank.org. World Bank Group. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Human Development Index (HDI)". hdr.undp.org. HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Corruption Perceptions Index". Transparency International. 30 January 2024. Archived from the original on 30 January 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
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  12. ^ "Employment to population ratio, 15+, total (%) (national estimate) - Belarus". data.worldbank.org. World Bank. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Labour force participation rate". belstat.gov.by. National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  14. ^ a b "News". www.myfin.by.
  15. ^ a b "Belarus - WTO Statistics Database". World Trade Organization. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Export partners of Belarus". The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  17. ^ "İmport partners of Belarus". The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
  18. ^ "Sovereigns rating list". Standard & Poor's. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
  19. ^ Viachaslau Yarashevich (2014). "Political Economy of Modern Belarus: Going Against Mainstream?". Europe-Asia Studies. 66 (10): 1703–1734. doi:10.1080/09668136.2014.967571. S2CID 153993706.
  20. ^ E.Sh. Veselova (2016). "The Market-Socialist Country". Problems of Economic Transition. 58 (6): 546–555. doi:10.1080/10611991.2016.1222209. S2CID 157129993.
  21. ^ Li, Yan; Cheng, Enfu (2020-12-01). "Market Socialism in Belarus: An Alternative to China's Socialist Market Economy". World Review of Political Economy. 11 (4): 428–454. doi:10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428. ISSN 2042-8928. S2CID 236786906.
  22. ^ Le Bélarus, l'Etat miraculé. (28 April 2019) - "Sur le plan des inégalités, selon le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, le coefficient de Gini (qui est un indicateur de la répartition des revenus, 0 étant l'égalité parfaite et 1 ou 100 étant l'inégalité la plus extrême) du Bélarus est l'un des plus bas du continent : 27 (Alors qu'il est de 37,2 en Estonie, 34 en Italie, 31,8 en Pologne et 23,2 en Slovaquie... mais 25,6 en Islande)."

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