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Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Belarus economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of Belarus best banks and safest banks are also available.
Major international organizations classify countries by different factors. One criterion that is often used is gross national income (GNI) per capita – the dollar value of a country’s final income in a year, divided by its population
USD 3.3 billion (2016)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 49.5 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 168.1 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| 10% | 8.7% | 10.3% | 0.1% | 7.7% | 5.5% | 1.7% |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| 1% | 1.7% | -3.9% | -3% | -0.5% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| N/A | N/A | 0.12% | 0.17% | 0.1% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 18.3% | 18.1% | 13.5% | 12.7% | 12.0% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 0.5% | 0.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 34.5% | 37.3% | 53.7% | 54.9% | 59.2% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| -2.9% | -1.7% | -3.5% | -5.3% | -8.2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: B-
Moody's: Caa1
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-4.8% (2017 estimate)
60.0% (2015)
0.2% (2015)
0.1% (2015)
Machinery and equipment, mineral products, chemicals, metals, textiles, foodstuffs
Mineral products, machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, metals
Russia 39%, UK 11.2%, Ukraine 9.5%, Netherlands 4.3%, Germany 4.1% (2015)
Russia 56.6%, China 7.9%, Germany 4.6% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 2,230 million | USD 1,828 million | USD 1,584 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 246 million | USD 39 million | USD 118 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | USD 162.9 million | N/A | N/A |
N/A
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N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 37 out of 190 countries (2016)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 31 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 27 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 5 out of 190 countries
Getting credit: 101 out of 190 countries
Protecting investors: 42 out of 190 countries
Trading across border: 30 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 99 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 28 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 24 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 69 out of 190 countries
N/A
(2016-2017)
Ranking: 157 / Score: 48.77 (Repressed) (2017)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Presidential republic in name, although in fact a dictatorship
Russian (official) 70.2%, Belarusian (official) 23.4%, other 3.1% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities), unspecified 3.3% (2009 est.)
Orthodox 48.3%, Catholic 7.1%, other 3.5%, non-believers 41.1% (2011 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| N/A | 9.99 million | 9.5 million | 9.451 million | 9.217 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 32% | 57% | 70% | 77% |
Total population: 99.7%
Male: 99.8%
Female: 99.7% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write)
0% (2014)
27.2 (2014)
(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 6 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 49.04% Mobile 123.64% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)