An introduction in facts and figures to this landlocked country in the north-east of Europe
Republic of Belarus
Aleksandr Lukashenko (1994 - present )
Roman Golovchenko (appointed prime minister on 4 June 2020)
207,600 km²
Population – 9.408,4 million (on 1 January 2020)
Regional centres of Belarus (on 1 January 2020):
Belarusian |
84.9% |
(Source: 2019 census) |
Belarusian and Russian
Independence Day, 3 July
Belarusian rouble (Br)
GDP (2019) Br132.0 billion; per capita: Br14.01 thousand
Commodity structure of export (2019):
Commodity structure of import (2019):
Export:
Import:
8460 thousands hectares (2019)
Areas of speciality in agriculture: grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beet, flax, meat and dairy industry
4.33 million (2019)
Breakdown of employed population by type of economic activity (2019):
8.8 thousand unemployed (2019); 4.2%
Number of mobile communication subscribers – 11.6 million (2019).
Penetration of LTE-powered mobile communication services – 75.5%. 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 11 million, including over 3.2 million of fixed broadband Internet access subscribers. According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2016 Belarus was ranked 23rd by the number of broadband subscribers.
International bandwidth – 1,110Gbps.
Belarus is ranked 32nd in the Global ICT Development Index of the International Telecommunication Union (2017).
In the comparative Integrated Index for Postal Development the Belarusian postal service is ranked 21st out of 173 postal service operators (2020).
In 2018 Belarus moved up 11 points in comparison with 2016 and reached the 38th position in the UN E-Government Development Index (the index covers a total of 193 countries).
Railways – 5480 km, including 1228 km of electric track (2019)
Highways – 102,600 km, including paved roads 90,000 km (2019)
Oil pipelines – 2,984 km
Gas pipelines – 7,901 km