OREANDA-NEWS. March 5, 2010. Belarus’ household consumption spending rose 9.7% on the year in October-December 2009 to 1.185 million Belarusian rubles (Br), a representative in the National Statistics Committee told.

Food accounted for 39.3% of all consumer expenditures, down 1.8 percentage points on the year; payments for services accounted for 21.1%, compared to 19.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008, of them payments for utilities made up 7.7% of all consumer expenditures, up from 7.1%. Spending on non-foods accounted for 37.3% of the total, showing no change. Alcohol accounted for 2.3% of the total spending, showing no change.

Below is the breakdown of the population by the average monthly disposable incomes, per capita:

Disposable incomes      Share  

Less than Br250,000     6.1%   

Br250,000-Br500,000     34.9%  

Br500,000-Br750,000     32.8%  

Br750,000-Br1,000,000 14.7%  

Over Br1,000,000          11.5%  

The share of households with monthly incomes below the minimum subsistence level decrased to 5.3% from 5%.