Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Belarus

3.5% of people in Belarus lived below the national poverty line in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1996.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 1996 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Belarus, 2024 3.5% % of population
Change from 2023 −0.1percentage points 2023: 3.6%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Belarus over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2001 to 2024
Period Belarus
2024 3.5%
2023 3.6%
2022 3.9%
2021 4.1%
2020 4.8%
2019 5.0%
2018 5.6%
2017 5.9%
2016 5.7%
2015 5.1%
2014 4.8%
2013 5.5%
2012 6.3%
2011 7.3%
2010 5.2%
2009 5.4%
2008 6.1%
2007 7.7%
2006 11.1%
2005 12.7%
2004 17.8%
2003 27.1%
2002 30.5%
2001 28.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 3.6% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 4.8%, the figure has changed by −1.3 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1996 to 2024 for Belarus
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources