Men account for 46.2% of the population in Belarus (4,351,500)*.
Male population by region and the city of Minsk*:
Brest Oblast - 14.4%
Vitebsk Oblast - 12%
Gomel Oblast - 14.7%
Grodno Oblast – 10.9%
Minsk Oblast - 15.8%
Mogilev Oblast - 11%
Minsk city - 21.2%.
Average employment rate for working-age men** – 82.1%.
Average working age – 41 years.
A quarter of men in Belarus' workforce are 16-30 years old.
Male-dominated industries:
construction, transport, warehousing, delivery, agriculture, forestry and fishery, manufacturing, information and communications.
All Belarusian industries have male employees.
A total of 62,700 men married in Belarus in 2019, 43,400 of them tied the knot for the first time.
Average marriage age – 20-29 years.
The average age at first marriage – 28.3 years, at remarriage – 41.5 years.
* according to the 2019 population census, in percentage to the total male population
** as of 1 January 2019
Source: Belarus' National Statistics Committee