{"id":543278,"date":"2026-05-18T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=543278"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:49:36","slug":"belarusian-gdp-returns-to-growth-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-gdp-returns-to-growth-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian GDP Returns to Growth in April"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarus\u2019 gross domestic product totaled 94.5 billion rubles in January-April. In comparable prices, it increased by 0.2% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s GDP returned to growth following April results. GDP had declined by 0.4% in the first quarter and by 1.2% in January-February.<\/p>\n

The GDP deflator index stood at 110% in January-April.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that under the official social and economic development forecast approved by Lukashenka, GDP growth is expected to reach 2.8% by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Labor productivity measured by GDP declined by 0.5% in January-March to 16,365.3 rubles.<\/p>\n

Agricultural output<\/mark> across all categories of farms totaled 2.06 billion rubles in April, increasing by 3.9% compared with April last year. In agricultural organizations, output rose by 4.2% to 2.02 billion rubles. Over four months, agricultural production across all farm categories increased by 2.9% to 7.6 billion rubles, while output in agricultural organizations rose by 3.2% to 7.5 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

In April, agricultural organizations produced 153,000 tonnes of livestock and poultry, up 5.7% year-on-year, while milk production increased by 3.2% to 771,300 tonnes. In January-April, livestock and poultry production rose by 4.6% to 609,600 tonnes, while milk production increased by 2.6% to 3 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

Industrial output<\/mark> totaled 18.2 billion rubles in April. In comparable prices, it increased by 0.2% compared with the same month of 2025. Over January-April, industrial production declined by 2.5% to 69.98 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

Industrial inventories stood at 11.755 billion rubles as of May 1. Compared with April 1, they decreased by 120 million rubles. Inventory levels amounted to 83.5% of average monthly production volume, down 1.6 percentage points over the month.<\/p>\n

Fixed capital investment<\/mark> totaled 4.45 billion rubles in April. It increased by 5% year-on-year. Over four months, investment declined by 0.6% to 15.7 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

In April, 160,000 square meters of housing were commissioned, down 26.5% from a year earlier, including a 48.6% decrease in state-supported housing construction to 19,500 square meters. In January-April, housing completions fell by 26.6% to 842,100 square meters, including a 41.2% decline in state-supported housing to 125,200 square meters.<\/p>\n

Freight turnover<\/mark> increased by 0.2% in January-April to nearly 23.3 billion tonne-kilometers, while passenger traffic rose by 1% to 564.8 million people.<\/p>\n

Retail trade turnover<\/mark> totaled 9.02 billion rubles in April. It increased by 6.9% compared with the same month of 2025. Over the four-month period, retail turnover rose by 6.2% to 34.66 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

Wholesale turnover increased by 3.3% in April to 16.57 billion rubles. Over four months, it declined by 2% to 58.34 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

Public catering turnover increased by 0.9% in April to 620.1 million rubles. Over January-April, it declined by 0.6% to 2.39 billion rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belarus\u2019 gross domestic product totaled 94.5 billion rubles in January-April. In comparable prices, it increased by 0.2% compared with the same period last year. The country\u2019s GDP returned to growth following April results. GDP had declined by 0.4% in the first quarter and by 1.2% in January-February. The GDP deflator index stood at 110% in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":504506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0ad2a3233ec.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian GDP Returns to Growth in April"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543278","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\/543278","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=543278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}