{"id":560789,"date":"2026-07-20T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=560789"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:19:38","slug":"minsk-economy-grew-faster-than-belarus-s-overall-economy-in-the-first-half-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-economy-grew-faster-than-belarus-s-overall-economy-in-the-first-half-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Minsk Economy Grew Faster Than Belarus&#8217;s Overall Economy in the First Half of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Minsk&#8217;s gross regional product (GRP) increased by 2.2% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to the first estimate released by the Main Statistical Office of the City of Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>The capital&#8217;s GRP totalled 47.5 billion Belarusian rubles at current prices. At constant prices, which exclude the impact of inflation, the indicator reached 102.2% of the level recorded in January-June 2025, indicating real economic growth of 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Minsk remains the country&#8217;s largest economic centre. At the same time, the capital&#8217;s economic growth outpaced the national rate. Earlier, Belstat reported that Belarus&#8217;s gross domestic product increased by 1.5% in constant prices in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk&#8217;s gross regional product (GRP) increased by 2.2% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to the first estimate released by the Main Statistical Office of the City of Minsk. The capital&#8217;s GRP totalled 47.5 billion Belarusian rubles at current prices. At constant prices, which exclude the impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":527650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5df64025444.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk Economy Grew Faster Than Belarus\u2019s Overall Economy in the First Half of the Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560789","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=560789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}