Almost every fourth child in Belarus is brought up in a large family – Ministry of Labor

In Belarus, almost every fourth child is brought up in a large family. This sb.by reported in the press service of the Ministry of labor and social protection.

For 68.8 percent of Belarusians, children are the highest value of life. In 2025, there were 52,000 marriages in the country. The average age of first marriage is 26.7 years for women and 29 years for men. With remarriage, this figure is higher: 40.5 years for women and 43.4 years for men.

Since 2009, the number of families raising three or more minor children has increased by 87 percent. The size of the family capital for large families in 2026 is 35 505 rubles. Since 2015, it has been assigned to 157,000 families. Two thousand families in Belarus in the first half of 2026 used the services of a nanny