An introduction in facts and figures to this landlocked country in the north-east of Europe
Aleksandr Lukashenko (1994 - present )
Roman Golovchenko (appointed prime minister on 4 June 2020)
207,600 km²
Population – 9.200,6 million (on 1 January 2023)
Regional centres of Belarus (on 1 January 2023):
Belarusian |
84.9% |
(Source: 2019 census) |
Belarusian and Russian
Independence Day, 3 July
Belarusian rouble (Br)
GDP (2022) Br 191.4 billion; per capita: Br20.73 thousand
GDP (2021) Br 176.8 billion; per capita: Br19.01 thousand
GDP (2020) Br 149.7 billion; per capita: Br15.96 thousand
GDP (2019) Br134.7 billion; per capita: Br14.30 thousand
EXPORT / IMPORT
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries - 587.7 / 1,559.8
Manufacturing - 36,949.2 / 38,489.1
- mining - 1,150.4 / 10,343.8
- processing - 35,604.5 / 27,579.5
- supply of electricity, gas, steam, hot water and conditioned air - 66.8 / 21.2
- water supply; collection, processing and disposal of waste, pollution cleanup - 127.5 / 544.6
Export:
Import:
Belarus ranked 47th out of 152 countries in the 2020 edition of the Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP) that is compiled by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
8,283,900 hectares (as of late 2020)
Areas of speciality in agriculture: grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beet, flax, meat and dairy industry
4.21 million (2022)
Breakdown of employed population by type of economic activity (2022):
4.6 thousand unemployed (2022)
Number of mobile communication subscribers – 11.77 million (2022).
Penetration of LTE-powered mobile communication services – 98%. At present the services are available in Minsk and all the oblast capitals as well as major district capitals across the country.
Number of fixed telephony subscribers – 47.5 phones per 100 residents.
Number of Internet service subscribers and users – over 12 million, including over 3.2 million of fixed broadband Internet access subscribers.
International bandwidth – 2,770 Gbps (2022)
Belarus is ranked 32nd in the Global ICT Development Index of the International Telecommunication Union (2017).
In the comparative Integrated Index for Postal Development by the Universal Postal Union the Belarusian postal service is ranked 20th out of 170 postal service operators in 2020 (21st out of 172 countries in 2019).
In 2020, Belarus reached the 40th position in the UN E-Government Survey (the index features a total of 193 countries).
Railways – 5.474,1 km, including 1.369,5 km of electric track (2022)
Highways – 103,400 km, including paved roads 90,100 km (2022)
Oil pipelines – 2,766.3 km
Oil product pipelines – 1,137.9 km
Gas pipelines – 7,901.6 km