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Belarus

9,085,991

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-46.64K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-9.0%from 9.98M
Life expectancy74.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.22births per woman · 2024
Urban population79.5%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Belarus is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+18.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate7.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate13.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-6.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-3.02Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Belarus look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 7.45M in 2050—17.7% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20249.06M
  2. 20507.45M
  3. 21004.35M
Median age in 205048.1years
Births in 205058.43Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050121.12Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19608.2M
  2. 19709.04M
  3. 19809.64M
  4. 199010.19M
  5. 20009.98M
  6. 20109.48M
  7. 20209.38M
  8. 20259.09M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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