{"id":544111,"date":"2026-05-21T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544111"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:12:46","slug":"small-and-medium-sized-businesses-contributed-27-4-of-belarus-s-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/small-and-medium-sized-businesses-contributed-27-4-of-belarus-s-gdp","title":{"rendered":"Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Contributed 27.4% of Belarus\u2019s GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The contribution of small and medium-sized businesses to Belarus\u2019s GDP amounted to 27.4%. They also generated 46.1% of the total revenue of Belarusian enterprises, or 328.3 billion Belarusian rubles. These figures were published today by Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>The contribution to GDP was 17% from small businesses, 8% from medium-sized businesses, 1.7% from individual entrepreneurs and 0.7% from self-employed people.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 1, there were 135,000 active small and medium-sized enterprises in the country, including 132,800 small enterprises and 2,200 medium-sized enterprises, as well as 204,400 individual entrepreneurs. Another 250,500 individuals were engaged in entrepreneurial activity.<\/p>\n<p>The most common areas of economic activity among small and medium-sized enterprises and individual entrepreneurs were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (34.5% of the total),<\/li>\n<li>transportation and storage, postal and courier activities (13.9%),<\/li>\n<li>industry (8.5%),<\/li>\n<li>professional, scientific and technical activities (7.6%),<\/li>\n<li>construction (7.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contribution of small and medium-sized businesses to Belarus\u2019s GDP amounted to 27.4%. They also generated 46.1% of the total revenue of Belarusian enterprises, or 328.3 billion Belarusian rubles. These figures were published today by Belstat. The contribution to GDP was 17% from small businesses, 8% from medium-sized businesses, 1.7% from individual entrepreneurs and 0.7% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":544110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0ecc91e2a13.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Contributed 27.4% of Belarus\u2019s GDP"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544111","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=544111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}