MINSK, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The Belarusian economy grew by 0.8 percent year-on-year in January-February 2019, the National Statistics Committee said on Friday.

The volume of GDP amounted to 18.7 billion Belarusian rubles (about 8.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first two months of this year.

The GDP deflator index in January-February 2019 totaled 105.1 percent compared to the same period of 2018.

The Belarusian GDP grew by 3 percent in 2018.