From 2018 to 2023, 211,286 working-age citizens left Belarus, according to statistics published by a group of anonymous hackers united in the Cyber Partisans initiative.
It is noted that the information was received “at the addresses of registration/residence within the country, as well as on departure from Belarus for permanent residence.”
According to the data obtained by the “Cyber Partisans”, the following number of people of working age left Belarus during this period:
in 2018 — 26,222 people,
in 2019 — 27,299 people,
in 2020 — 25,430 people,
in 2021 — 35,432 people,
in 2022 — 52,635 people,
in 2023 — 44,268 people.
The sample includes citizens of Belarus of working age who quit within one calendar year, left Belarus and did not return.
“The regime seeks to keep lists of IT specialists and medical workers who have left by name. Statistics are also regularly compiled on how many IT, medical, construction, and transportation workers are left in Belarus,” the initiative said in a statement.
About 500-600 thousand people left Belarus after the 2020 presidential elections as of early 2024, an independent sociologist, former director of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences Genadz Korshunau, based on available statistics, came to this conclusion.
