Labour Ministry: 80% Belarusians have families

Eighty percent of Belarusians live in families – as informed by the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection, Valery Kovalkov

According to the latest census data, 44 percent (1,142.9 thousand) of families have children under the age of 18. Most of them are single (a little more than 57 percent). Every third family has two children (33+ percent), and 9.2 percent have many children.

“Since 2020, an information resource has been functioning in the system of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection: it is a database of large families permanently residing in the country,” the Deputy Minister said. “According to its records, we register an increase in the number of large families: there are more than 123.6 thousand of them, with 405,000+ children (one in four boys and girls in Belarus).”