National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus

National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus (official abbreviation — Belstat; Belarusian: Нацыянальны статыстычны камітэт Рэспублікі Беларусь; Russian: Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь) is a Belarusian government organization responsible for the collection, analysis and publication of the national statistics.In 1991, the State Committee of Statistics and Analysis of Belarusian SSR was reorganized into the eponymous organization of the Republic of Belarus.[5][6][7][8] For many years, Belstat didn't calculate the number of unemployed people in Belarus according to international standards.[5] As of 2021, Belstat calculates unemployment according to both national standards and International Labour Organization methods, and they differ many times.[5] After the EU, USA and several other countries imposed sectoral sanctions against Belarus, Belstat stopped to published reports about several aspects of foreign trade and industry.