{"id":551261,"date":"2026-06-16T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=551261"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:20:31","slug":"growth-in-real-incomes-accelerates-to-8-through-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/growth-in-real-incomes-accelerates-to-8-through-april","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Real Incomes Accelerates to 8% Through April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217;s real disposable monetary incomes increased by 8% in January-April compared with the same period last year. The pace of growth continues to accelerate. At the end of the first quarter, real incomes were up 7.6%. For comparison, the indicator rose by 9.6% over the whole of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, envisages a 4.8% increase in household incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of monetary incomes in January-April 2026 was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages and salaries \u2014 65.7%;<\/li>\n<li>transfers to the population (pensions, benefits, scholarships and other transfers) \u2014 22.7%;<\/li>\n<li>income from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities \u2014 6.9%;<\/li>\n<li>property income and other income \u2014 4.7%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The share of wages and salaries in total income 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>Belarus&#8217;s real disposable monetary incomes increased by 8% in January-April compared with the same period last year. The pace of growth continues to accelerate. At the end of the first quarter, real incomes were up 7.6%. For comparison, the indicator rose by 9.6% over the whole of 2025. The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, [&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\/06\/6a31075302eee.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Growth in Real Incomes Accelerates to 8% Through April"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551261","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\/551261","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=551261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551261\/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=551261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}