population of Belarus today, according to the Statistics Committee, was almost nine and a half million people.Among the CIS states is in fifth place after the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.Nevertheless, the population of Belarus exceeds the number of citizens of the Baltic States (1.3 times), as well as residents of Finland or Denmark (twice).Furthermore, this figure is low compared with Sweden, Austria and Bulgaria.The number of residents of Belarus is approximately equal to the number of citizens in Greece, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgium, Yugoslavia and some other countries.
period lasting from the post-war years up to the nineties of the last century was characterized by a tendency to constant growth of the inhabitants of the country, bringing the population of Belarus has considerably increased.However, in the last decades of the twentieth century, the pace of increase in the number of inhabitants of the country began to significantly decline.
economic reforms of perestroika touched on many aspects of people's lives.The transition to a market economy, the emergence of informal activities, the flourishing of the private sector, the rise in unemployment - all these factors have played a significant role in changing the living conditions of citizens.Having said this and on population dynamics, structure and process of reproduction of people living in the country.
With nineteen ninety-third year of Belarus, whose population has been declining, has entered the stage of depopulation.Reducing the number of citizens was due to excess of deaths over births.The result of this process is the continuous movement of the country in the direction of acquiring the status of a small country (in number).
The population of Belarus is a multinational composition.The state is home to a hundred and thirty nationalities.Main number of citizens are Belarusians.Their share in the total population - Eighty-one percent.
highest percentage of Belarusians living in Minsk and Grodno regions.Currently, their number in the country is increasing.
The percentage of other nationalities during the historical period is constantly changing.He was in direct proportion to the external and internal factors (migrations, wars and so on).However, representatives consistently the second largest population group were the Russian people.The share of this nation is eleven percent.Many of the landlords, farmers and officials began to live in Belarus after its accession to the Russian Empire.During the period of the Soviet regime, this ethnic group in numbers has surpassed the Polish and Jewish, which corresponded to the geopolitics of the USSR.Currently, the residence of the representatives of Russian nationality are mainly city.
population of Belarus in the north-western regions represented a large proportion of the Poles.It is nearly four percent of the total population of the region.Negligible levels of migration of citizens of Polish nationality was observed in the Middle Ages.Today, most members of this ethnic group lives in the Grodno region.They do not have any significant differences from the Belarusians of the household and cultural traits.
