{"id":533821,"date":"2026-04-15T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533821"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:18:03","slug":"growth-in-real-household-incomes-slowed-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/growth-in-real-household-incomes-slowed-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Slowed in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217;s real disposable household incomes rose by 7.2% in January-February compared with the same period last year. In January alone, income growth had stood at 7.5%. By comparison, the figure increased by 9.6% over the whole of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus&#8217;s official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by Alyaksandr Lukashenka&#8217;s decree, envisages household income growth of 4.8%.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of household incomes in January-February 2026 was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages \u2014 64.9%;<\/li>\n<li>transfers to the population, including pensions, benefits, scholarships and other transfers \u2014 23.2%;<\/li>\n<li>income from business and other income-generating activities \u2014 7%;<\/li>\n<li>property income and other income \u2014 4.9%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The share of wages and property income in the overall structure declined, while the share of transfers to the population increased.<\/p>\n<p>Real disposable household incomes are defined as monetary incomes minus taxes, duties and contributions, adjusted for the consumer price index for goods and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217;s real disposable household incomes rose by 7.2% in January-February compared with the same period last year. In January alone, income growth had stood at 7.5%. By comparison, the figure increased by 9.6% over the whole of 2025. Belarus&#8217;s official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by Alyaksandr Lukashenka&#8217;s decree, envisages household income growth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":496488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69df57ce9f04b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Slowed in February"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533821","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=533821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}