{"id":518269,"date":"2026-02-17T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=518269"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:38:11","slug":"belarus-s-gdp-falls-by-1-2-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-s-gdp-falls-by-1-2-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019s GDP Falls by 1.2% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s gross domestic product in January 2026 amounted to 23.3 billion rubles at current prices. In comparable prices, it declined by 1.2% compared with January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The GDP deflator index in January stood at 109.9%.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that today Alyaksandr Lukashenka is due to hear a government report on the performance of the economy in 2025 and plans for 2026. On Saturday, Prime Minister Alyaksandr Turchyn held a meeting devoted to the decline in industrial production and exports, instructing officials to tighten control over the fulfilment of targets. According to the official socio-economic development forecast approved by Lukashenka, GDP growth this year is expected to reach 2.8% by year-end.<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural output in all categories of farms in January amounted to 1.94 billion rubles, increasing by 3.5% compared with January last year. In agricultural organisations, output rose by 3.8% to 1.92 billion rubles.<\/p>\n<p>In January, farms of all categories produced 160.3 thousand tonnes of livestock and poultry, which is 4.3% more than a year earlier, milk production increased by 3.3% to 768.3 thousand tonnes, and egg production rose by 0.5% to 313.7 million units.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial output in January totalled 16.6 billion rubles. In comparable prices, it decreased by 3.4% compared with January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial inventories as of February 1 amounted to 12.04 billion rubles. Compared with January 1, they increased by 808.5 million rubles. The level of inventories reached 89% of average monthly output, rising by 8.7% over the month.<\/p>\n<p>Freight turnover in January fell by 0.5% to 5.18 billion tonne-kilometres, while passenger transport increased by 0.7% to 137.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Retail trade turnover in January amounted to 7.9 billion rubles. It increased by 1.2% compared with January 2025, Belstat reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wholesale trade continued to decline. Wholesale turnover plunged by 9.2% to 12.3 billion rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Turnover in public catering also decreased, falling by 3.1% to 570 million rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s gross domestic product in January 2026 amounted to 23.3 billion rubles at current prices. In comparable prices, it declined by 1.2% compared with January 2025. The GDP deflator index in January stood at 109.9%. It should be noted that today Alyaksandr Lukashenka is due to hear a government report on the performance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6994370a90cf4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019s GDP Falls by 1.2% in January"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518269","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=518269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}