<\/a>As part of the USSR, Belarus was a well-developed country. Today, with an economy based on agriculture – grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax, beef, milk \u2013 and industry – metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earth-movers, motorcycles, televisions, synthetic fibers, fertilizer, textiles, radios, and refrigerators, Belarus has a total GDP of $149.2 billion. On the other hand, the agriculture is inefficient because it is dependent on the subsidies received from the government. A negative aspect of the industry is that approximately 80% of it is still owned by the state. In 2012, the economic growth rate was of 1.5%, much lower when compared to 2011 \u2013 5.5% and 2010 – 7.7%. The GDP per capita in Belarus is $15,900, while 27.1% of the population lives below the World Bank\u2019s poverty line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Belarus, a landlocked country located in the heart of Europe, is the only country on the continent that still holds political prisoners. With a total area of 80,155\u00a0square miles, Belarus is slightly smaller than Kansas. By land mass, it is the 86th largest country on Earth. Regarding its population in 2013, Belarus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}