{"id":571580,"date":"2026-08-27T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571580"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:49:57","slug":"state-sector-improves-economic-performance-in-first-half-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/state-sector-improves-economic-performance-in-first-half-of-year","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian State Sector Improves Economic Performance In First Half Of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State-owned enterprises and companies with a state ownership stake improved their economic performance in the first half of the year, according to a report by Belstat.<\/p>\n

Revenue of state-owned enterprises and companies with a state ownership stake amounted to 140.82 billion rubles in January-June 2026. It increased by 8% compared with the same period last year. The state sector’s share of total revenue generated by enterprises across the country was 49.9%, down 0.5 percentage points from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

Net profit for the first half of the year increased by 5% to 5.84 billion rubles.<\/p>\n

Return on sales increased by 0.4 percentage points year-on-year to 7.8%.<\/p>\n

The share of loss-making organizations also increased. In January-June, 12.6% of organizations reported losses, up 3.1 percentage points from the first half of last year.<\/p>\n

Overdue debt on loans and borrowings amounted to 1.897 billion rubles at the end of the first half of the year, down 5 million rubles year-on-year. State-owned enterprises accounted for 72.4% of overdue debt nationwide, up 2.4 percentage points from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

State-sector exports of goods amounted to $9.85 billion, 27.4% more than in the first half of 2025. Imports increased by 43.7% to $5.89 billion. Exports of services rose by 25.2% to $1.765 billion, while imports increased by 26.6% to $1.43 billion.<\/p>\n

Industrial output in the state sector amounted to 61.1 billion rubles (+4.3%), accounting for 66.9% of the country’s total. The state sector’s share of industrial production increased by 1.2 percentage points year-on-year. Inventories stood at 6.786 billion rubles as of July 1, down 97 million rubles year-on-year.<\/p>\n

State-sector retail turnover amounted to 6.2 billion rubles (+7.6%), or 11.9% of total retail turnover nationwide, down 0.6 percentage points from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

State-sector investment in fixed assets amounted to 16.06 billion rubles (+13.6%). It accounted for 60.6% of total investment nationwide. The state sector’s share of investment increased by 0.9 percentage points year-on-year.<\/p>\n

The Belstat report covered 2,978 legal entities that were wholly or partially state-owned. Their number fell by 85 organizations over the year.<\/p>\n

The state sector employed 1.124 million people, 9,000 fewer than in the first half of 2025. Organizations wholly or partially owned by the state accounted for 39.1% of all workers in Belarus. This share declined by 0.3 percentage points year-on-year. Average wages at state-owned enterprises and companies with a state ownership stake amounted to 2,945.6 rubles in the first half of the year, compared with 2,607.2 rubles in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State-owned enterprises and companies with a state ownership stake improved their economic performance in the first half of the year, according to a report by Belstat. Revenue of state-owned enterprises and companies with a state ownership stake amounted to 140.82 billion rubles in January-June 2026. It increased by 8% compared with the same period last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a90165930a4a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian State Sector Improves Economic Performance In First Half Of Year"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571580","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\/571580","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=571580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}