USAID Country Health Statistical Report for Belarus

The population growth rate was less than 0.01% in 2010. Approximately 71% of the population resided in urban areas as of 2004. The number of women aged 15-19 was 292,795 in 2010, and the number of women aged 15-49 was 2,517,282 in the same year. Life expectancy at birth was 70.9 years in 2010. The crude birth rate was 9.8 per 1,000 people in 2010, while the crude death rate was 13.8 per 1,000 people in the same year. The number of live births was 93,819 in 2010. Healthy life expectancy for females was 65 years in 2002, and for males, it was 57 years in the same year. The percentage of the population under the age of 15 was 14.2% in 2010. Belarus had a GNI per capita of $7,890 in 2005. Health expenditure as a percentage of GDP was 6.4% in 2003. The number of physicians per 1,000 people was 4.6 in 1997-2004. Adult literacy rate was 99.6% in 2004, with 99.6% for females and 99.8% for males in the same year. The gross enrollment ratio for primary school was 97.1% in 2007, and the gender parity index for net enrollment ratio was 0.98 in 2006. The total fertility rate was 1.3 in 2010, according to BUCEN. Maternal mortality ratio was 18 per 100,000 live births in 2005, according to WHO/Hill. Infant mortality rate was 6.3 per 1,000 live births in 2010, according to BUCEN. Under-5 mortality rate was 13.8 per 1,000 live births in 2010, according to BUCEN. HIV prevalence proportion among adults aged 15-49 was 0.2% in 2007, according to UNAIDS. The estimated number of people living with HIV was 13,000 in 2007, according to UNAIDS. TB estimated number of cases was 5,910 in 2007, according to WHO. TB case detection rate was 82% in 2007, according to WHO. TB treatment success rate was 70% in 2006, according to WHO. The population of Belarus is projected to increase from 9,612,632 in 2010 to 9,643,000 in 2020, according to BUCEN-IDB. The number of males aged 0-4 is projected to decrease from 238,012 in 2000 to 216,080 in 2020. The number of females aged 0-4 is projected to decrease from 224,191 in 2000 to 204,020 in 2020.