{"id":589528,"date":"2026-10-15T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=589528"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:16:07","slug":"growth-in-belarus-real-disposable-incomes-accelerates-to-8-2-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/growth-in-belarus-real-disposable-incomes-accelerates-to-8-2-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Belarus\u2019 Real Disposable Incomes Accelerates to 8.2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Real disposable monetary incomes in Belarus rose by 8.2% in January\u2013August compared with the same period last year. Compared with the January\u2013July result, the income growth rate accelerated by 0.1 percentage points. For comparison, the indicator increased by 9.6% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree of Lukashenka, envisages a 4.8% increase in household incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown of monetary incomes in January\u2013August 2026 was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wages and salaries \u2014 66.6%;<\/li>\n<li>transfers to households (pensions, benefits, scholarships, and other transfers) \u2014 22%;<\/li>\n<li>income from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities \u2014 6.8%;<\/li>\n<li>property income and other income \u2014 4.6%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compared with January\u2013July, the share of income from entrepreneurial and other income-generating activities increased, while the share of transfers to households declined.<\/p>\n<p>Real disposable monetary incomes are defined as monetary income minus taxes, fees, and contributions, adjusted for the consumer price index for goods and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real disposable monetary incomes in Belarus rose by 8.2% in January\u2013August compared with the same period last year. Compared with the January\u2013July result, the income growth rate accelerated by 0.1 percentage points. For comparison, the indicator increased by 9.6% in 2025. The official socio-economic development forecast for 2026, approved by a decree of Lukashenka, envisages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad099dc36e40.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Growth in Belarus\u2019 Real Disposable Incomes Accelerates to 8.2% in August"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589528","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\/589528","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=589528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589529,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589528\/revisions\/589529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}