3.9% of the population of Belarus has average per capita available resources below the subsistence minimum budget, the National Statistical Committee reports based on the results of a sample survey of households on the standard of living in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Average per capita income is the total amount of income divided by the population.

When calculating per capita income, the entire population is taken into account, including the unemployed, pensioners and minors.

If we take the number of the population at the beginning of 2022 - 9 million 255.5 thousand people (Belstat did not publish more recent data), it turns out that in October - December 2022 there were about 361 thousand people outside the poverty line.

Their average per capita income is lower than the subsistence minimum budget, which now amounts to 339 rubles 83 kopecks (and before that it was 328 rubles 50 kopecks).

The highest level of poverty in the 4th quarter of 2022, according to Belstat, was in Mogilev region - 5.9% of the population, followed by Brest region - 5.6%, Gomel region - 5.5%, Vitebsk region - 5.1%, Horaden region - 3 % and Minsk region — 2.8%.

The lowest number of low-income people in Minsk is 1.8% of the population.

Earlier, even official trade unions paid attention to the problem of the poor.