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Household disposable resources amounted to 2,984.9 rubles per month in the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 38.7 rubles compared with the fourth quarter of last year. Compared with the first quarter of 2025, household disposable resources increased by 368.4 rubles.
Disposable resources include household cash income, the value of food products consumed that were produced in personal subsidiary plots minus material costs of production and/or received free of charge from other sources, as well as the value of benefits and payments received in kind. Belstat publishes the information based on a sample household living standards survey.
Average resources of urban households increased by 85 rubles over the quarter to 3,158.7 rubles per month. Rural residents had resources amounting to 2,420.5 rubles per month, which was 113.7 rubles less than in the fourth quarter of last year. Compared with the first quarter of 2025, resources of urban households increased by 408.9 rubles, while those of rural households rose by 234.3 rubles.
Cash expenditures per household increased by 58.1 rubles in the first quarter to 2,894.6 rubles per month, of which 1,934.9 rubles, or 66.9%, accounted for consumer spending. Compared with the first quarter of 2025, expenditures increased by 368.8 rubles, including consumer spending, which rose by 227.2 rubles.
In the structure of household consumer spending, food expenditures accounted for 38.4% (+0.9 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of 2025), non-food goods accounted for 34.9% (-2.1 percentage points), and services accounted for 24.4% (+1.1 percentage points). Over the year, the share of spending on food remained unchanged, spending on non-food goods increased by 0.7 percentage points, and spending on services decreased by 0.6 percentage points.
Resources exceeding 1,000 rubles were available to 65.8% of Belarusians, which was 0.5 percentage points more than in the fourth quarter of 2025. In Minsk, 81.7% of the population had resources exceeding 1,000 rubles (+1.3 percentage points), while in the Hrodna region the figure was 56.3%. More than half of the population in all regions of the country had resources above 1,000 rubles.
Across the country, 31% of the population (+1.1 percentage points) had resources exceeding 1,500 rubles. In Minsk, their share amounted to 47.2% (+1.4 percentage points), while in the Mahiliou region it was 19.3% (-0.2 percentage points).
The “wealthiest” group, with resources above 2,000 rubles, accounted for 14.1% of the population. In Minsk, the figure was 24.6%, while in the Mahiliou region it was 8.9%. Last year, Belstat set this threshold at 1,800 rubles.
The largest group consisted of people with resources ranging from 900.1 to 1,000 rubles, accounting for 8.4% of the population. Another 8.3% had resources ranging from 1,000.1 to 1,100 rubles. It should be noted that in the fourth quarter of last year, the largest groups had resources 100 rubles higher.
Resources below 500 rubles were available to 3.2% of the population. Last year, the minimum threshold in Belstat statistics was 450 rubles.
The share of the population with resource levels below the subsistence minimum budget decreased by 0.1 percentage points in the fourth quarter to 3.3%. In urban areas, 2.6% of people had such resource levels (-0.1 percentage points), while in rural areas the figure was 5.6% (unchanged). The highest share of the population with resources below the subsistence minimum was recorded in the Mahiliou region at 4.9%, while the lowest was in Minsk at 1.2%.