{"id":559756,"date":"2026-07-15T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=559756"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:50:41","slug":"growth-in-real-household-incomes-slows-slightly-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/growth-in-real-household-incomes-slows-slightly-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Slows Slightly in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Real disposable cash incomes of the Belarusian population rose by 7.9% in January-May compared with the same period last year. The pace of real income growth slowed slightly. It stood at 8% in January-April. By comparison, the figure increased by 9.6% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree of <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, provides for a 4.8% increase in household incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of cash incomes in January-May 2026 was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages and salaries \u2014 66.1%;<\/li>\n<li>transfers to the population (pensions, benefits, scholarships and other transfers) \u2014 22.5%;<\/li>\n<li>income from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities \u2014 6.7%;<\/li>\n<li>property income and other income \u2014 4.7%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The share of wages and salaries in the income structure increased, while the shares of all other sources declined.<\/p>\n<p>Real disposable cash income is cash income after taxes, fees and contributions, adjusted for the consumer price index for goods and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real disposable cash incomes of the Belarusian population rose by 7.9% in January-May compared with the same period last year. The pace of real income growth slowed slightly. It stood at 8% in January-April. By comparison, the figure increased by 9.6% in 2025. The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree of [&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\/07\/6a5749ea43328.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Growth in Real Household Incomes Slows Slightly in May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559756","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\/559756","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=559756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559756\/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=559756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}