Belarus reports sharp rise in unprofitable businesses

July 22, Pozirk. The share of unprofitable economic entities, excluding small businesses, increased by 3.9 percentage points to 22.6 percent in January-May, according to Pozirk’s analysis of the National Statistics Committee’s (Biełstat) data.

The trend was observed in all regions and the city of Minsk:

• Brest region – a rise of 2.3 percentage points to 19.7 percent
• Viciebsk region – 3.6 pp to 17.8 percent
• Homiel region – 5.8 pp to 20.2 percent
• Hrodna region – 4.5 pp to 20.8 percent
• Minsk region – 7.4 pp to 23.4 percent
• Mahiloŭ region – 3.5 pp to 20.1 percent
• Minsk – 2.7 pp to 27.5 percent

The average return on sales of the country’s entities fell by 0.3 percentage point to 6.5 percent in this period.

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Belarus reports rise in proportion of unprofitable companies

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