{"id":510665,"date":"2026-01-19T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510665"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:04:06","slug":"belarus-gdp-grows-by-1-3-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-gdp-grows-by-1-3-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 GDP Grows by 1.3% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarus\u2019 gross domestic product in 2025 amounted to 286.7 billion roubles. It increased by 1.3% compared with 2024. The GDP deflator index in 2025 relative to the previous year stood at 111%, Belstat reported.<\/p>\n

Growth rates at the end of December remained at the level of the first 11 months. As reported earlier, GDP growth in January\u2013November also amounted to 1.3%. After nine months, growth stood at 1.6%, and after 10 months at 1.5%. The socio-economic development forecast for this year had envisaged GDP growth of 4.1%.<\/p>\n

Labour productivity based on GDP for the first 11 months amounted to 62,742.1 roubles, up 1.2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Agricultural output in December across all categories of farms amounted to 2.08 billion roubles, which is 4.5% higher than in the same period last year. In agricultural organisations, it increased by 4.8% to 2.04 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

Across all categories of farms, agricultural production last year rose by 0.2% to 40.15 billion roubles, while in agricultural organisations it increased by 2.7% to 33.34 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

Production of livestock and poultry in agricultural organisations in December grew by 5.9% to 149.1 thousand tonnes compared with the same period last year, while over 12 months it increased by 0.1% to 1.77 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

Milk yields in December rose by 6.2% to 755.8 thousand tonnes. Over the year, milk production increased by 5.3% to 9 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

Industrial production in December fell by 2.9% to just under 18 billion roubles. Over the year, it declined by 1.8% to 208.05 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

Industrial inventories as of 1 January amounted to 11.235 billion roubles. They decreased by 430 million roubles over the month.<\/p>\n

The inventory level stood at 80.3% of average monthly production, down by 2.3 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Investment in fixed capital in December increased by 8.2% to 7.14 billion roubles. Over the year, investment growth amounted to 11.3%, with total investment nearing 56 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

In December, 1.01 million square metres of total housing area were commissioned, which is 6.9% less than a year earlier. At the same time, housing commissioned with state support increased by 15.5% to 168.7 thousand square metres. Overall, housing construction for the year grew by 4.2% to 4.57 million square metres, while housing with state support decreased by 2.4% to 810.9 thousand square metres.<\/p>\n

According to Belstat, retail trade turnover last year increased by 6.6% to 120.86 billion roubles. In December, retail turnover rose by 1.9% to 10.24 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

Wholesale trade last year declined by 4.9% to 180.16 billion roubles. At the same time, wholesale turnover in December grew by 0.2% to 16.9 billion roubles.<\/p>\n

Public catering turnover increased last year by 5.1% to 7.4 billion roubles. In December, it grew by 1.6% to 704.7 million roubles.<\/p>\n

Freight turnover last year decreased by 2.6% to 72.34 billion tonne-kilometres.<\/p>\n

Passenger transport increased by 1.5% to 1.665 billion passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belarus\u2019 gross domestic product in 2025 amounted to 286.7 billion roubles. It increased by 1.3% compared with 2024. The GDP deflator index in 2025 relative to the previous year stood at 111%, Belstat reported. Growth rates at the end of December remained at the level of the first 11 months. As reported earlier, GDP growth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696df38acfde9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 GDP Grows by 1.3% in 2025"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}