As of February 1, the population of Belarus was 9,478.7 thousand people

February 25, Minsk /Elena Prus - BELTA/. According to operational data, the population of Belarus as of February 1 of the current year (taking into account the results of the 2009 census) amounted to 9 million 478.7 thousand people. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Elena Kondratenko, Deputy Head of the Department for Work with Statistical Information Users of the National Statistical Committee of Belarus. Compared to January 1, 2011, the country's population decreased by 2.4 thousand people. The population reduction is due to the excess of deaths over births by 3,389 people, with a positive migration increase of 932 people (in January, 1,473 people arrived in Belarus, and 541 departed). The population increased over the month only in Minsk - from 1 million 864.1 thousand people as of January 1, 2011, to 1 million 864.6 thousand as of February 1 of the current year. In the other regions of the republic, the number of residents decreased in January. As a result, as of February 1, the Gomel region had 1 million 434.6 thousand people, the Minsk region - 1 million 411.2 thousand, the Brest region - 1 million 394.3 thousand, the Vitebsk region - 1 million 221 thousand, the Mogilev region - 1 million 87.4 thousand, and the Grodno region - 1 million 65.6 thousand people. -0-