{"id":542604,"date":"2026-05-15T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542604"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:39:54","slug":"growth-in-real-household-incomes-accelerates-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/growth-in-real-household-incomes-accelerates-in-first-quarter","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Accelerates in First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Real disposable monetary incomes of the Belarusian population increased by 7.6% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. Income growth stood at 7.5% in January and 7.2% in February. For comparison, the indicator increased by 9.6% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree signed by Lukashenka, provides for a 4.8% increase in household incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of monetary incomes in January-March 2026 was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages \u2014 65.4%;<\/li>\n<li>transfers to the population (pensions, benefits, scholarships and other transfers) \u2014 22.9%;<\/li>\n<li>income from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities \u2014 7%;<\/li>\n<li>property income and other income \u2014 4.7%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The share of wages in the income structure increased, while the shares of all other income sources declined.<\/p>\n<p>Real disposable monetary 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>Real disposable monetary incomes of the Belarusian population increased by 7.6% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. Income growth stood at 7.5% in January and 7.2% in February. For comparison, the indicator increased by 9.6% in 2025. The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":497767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a06e9ee1a5fc.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Accelerates in First Quarter"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542604","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=542604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}