It is reported by BelTA.
According to her, the population compared to current accounting decreased by 41 thousand people, or 0.4%.
According to the census, the urban population of the republic is 7 million 299 thousand 989 people (77.5%), rural - 2 million 113 thousand 457 people (22.5%).
Over two million people live in Minsk.
“We had four Alla Borisovna Pugachevs, many people whose age exceeded 120 years. We cleared all such cases. It often turned out that people simply incorrectly indicated the year of birth. All repetitions, errors were excluded, ”Medvedev said.
Earlier, the head of Rosstat Pavel Malkov in an interview with the FAN spoke about the digitalization trends of the census in Russia and Belarus.