Population

The region’s population is 19,8 thousand people, some 7,123 – economically active population, or 35.1 per cent of the total population. Of them 6,142 have jobs.

The average density makes 14,5 people per 1 square kilometer. Belarusians account for 89.5 per cent, Russians – 4.7 per cent, Ukrainians – 4.7 per cent, Poles – 0.3 per cent, Moldavians – 0.2 per cent, Lithuanians – 0.1 per cent, Jews – 0.1 per cent, Tatars – 0.1 per cent, Germans – 0.1 per cent, other diasporas – 0.2 per cent.

After the Chernobyl catastrophe 9 settlements, or 2,123 people were resettled. The polluted area made 1,624 hectares, of them 715 hectares of forest, 420 hectares of farms, 290 hectares of personal household plots and 200 hectares of roads.