The Council of Ministers of Belarus aims to guarantee an increase in migration of 50,000 people by 2030. From 2026 to 2030 it should be 10 000 people per year. On 5 December, Government Regulation No 699 of 2 December was published on the National Legal Portal of Belarus, which approved the Sustainable Labour marketplace State Programme for the period 2026-2030.
The liable contracting authority shall be the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. The state programme includes 2 sub-programmes:
- “Work market”,
- “Migration”.
The aim of the full programme is to advance effective employment of the population. In order to accomplish this objective, the following tasks should be addressed.
- consolidating interior labour resources;
- improving working conditions and safety;
- stimulating the inflow of skilled labour from abroad, taking into account labour marketplace needs.
The description of the “Migration” sub-programme indicates that the population is simply a strategical resource of the state and that serious demographic problems pose a real threat to national security.
“The demographic situation in Belarus is characterised by low rates of natural population growth. Under these conditions, ensuring migration growth should have a affirmative impact on population stability," officials say.
It was noted that Belarus remains attractive to economical migrants, and the attractiveness of Belarus for economical migration is due to membership of the EUG and CIS.
A affirmative migration growth has been reported over the last 5 years. In the first half of 2025 21 1000 foreigners arrived in Belarus to take up work, in the same period of 2024 12 1000 people arrived.
Key directions for implementation of the sub-programme will be:
- developing additional mechanisms for attracting and making effective usage of abroad labour, including highly skilled professionals;
- creating conditions for adaptation and integration of migrants, building constructive cooperation between migrants and host society;
- compliance with global obligations to defend the rights of forced migrants;
- organisation of effective control of migration, including in order to prevent abroad offences.
As a result, the government sets itself the nonsubjective of ensuring a migration increase of 10,000 people per year, or 50,000 people per programme period.
Source: reforms.news, pravo.by
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