* updated today
CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE
LATEST PREVIOUS *tenge/dollar 147.27 147.41
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 7.00 7.50
MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) June 30 2.74 May 31 2.52
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)
July 31 27.2 June 30 26.1
National fund ($bln) July 31 27.0 June 30 26.5
Money supply (M3)(trln tenge) June 30 8.29 May 31 8.05
QUARTERLY DATA
Jan-Mar'10 Jan-Dec'09 Jan-Sept'09 Jan-June'09
GDP (trln tenge) 3.882 15.888 11.203 6.446
GDP (pct) +7.1 +1.2 -2.2 -2.3
MONTHLY DATA
PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO
MONTH
Industrial output (pct) Jan-June +11.0 +11.9 -2.7
Inflation (pct) July +0.2 +0.2 +0.3
Unemployment (pct) Jan-March 6.2 6.6 6.9
Oil production (mln T) June 6.4 6.5 6.3
Copper output ('000 T) June 32.1 29.2 27.3
Zinc output ('000 T) June 26.1 27.2 27.6
Oil production (mln T) Jan-June 39.2 32.8 36.9
Copper output ('000 T) Jan-June 172.3 140.2 160.1
Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-June 158.2 132.0 168.3
Inflation (pct) Jan-July +4.6 +4.4 +4.1
Trade balance ($bln) Jan-May +13.9 +10.6 +3.1
Exports ($bln) Jan-May 24.2 18.3 13.9
Imports ($bln) Jan-May 10.3 7.7 10.8
FORECASTS FOR 2010
GDP growth (pct) 4.0
Annual inflation (pct) 6.0-8.0
Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) 721.0/4.1
Budget revenues (bln tenge) 3.190
Budget spending (bln tenge) 3.911
Industrial output (pct) 3.3
Oil output (mln T) 80
Grain harvest (mln T, gross weight) 13.5-14.5
Unemployment (pct)* --
* - No data
ANNUAL COMPARISONS
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
GDP +1.2 +3.2 +8.9 +10.7 +9.7 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8
Ind output (pct)
+1.7 +2.1 +4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8
Inflation (pct)
+6.2 +9.5 +18.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6
Yr-end M3 (trln tenge)
7.39 6.27 4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77
Yr-end unemployment (pct)
6.6 6.7 7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3
Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)
20.8 15.6 20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9
Oil output (mln T)
76.4 70.7 67.1 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2
Copper output ('000 T)
368.1 398.0 405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0
Note: Oil output includes gas condensate
KAZAKHSTAN'S LONG-TERM RATINGS
S&P (May 8, 2009) BBB- stable outlook
Moody's (Apr 5, 2010) Baa2 stable outlook
Fitch (Dec 16, 2009) BBB- stable outlook
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