| Economy | Kazakhstan |
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Economy - overview:
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Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia, possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves and plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals. It also has a large agricultural sector featuring livestock and grain. Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources. Kazakhstan enjoyed double-digit growth in 2000-01 and 8% or more per year in 2002-07 - thanks largely to its booming energy sector, but also to economic reform, good harvests, and increased foreign investment; growth slowed to 5% in 2008, however, as a result of declining oil prices and a softening world economy. Inflation reached 10% in 2007 and 18% in 2008. In the energy sector, the opening of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in 2001, from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz oilfield to the Black Sea, substantially raised export capacity. In 2006 Kazakhstan completed the Atasu-Alashankou portion of an oil pipeline to China that is planned in future construction to extend from the country's Caspian coast eastward to the Chinese border. The country has embarked upon an industrial policy designed to diversify the economy away from overdependence on the oil sector by developing its manufacturing potential. The policy changed the corporate tax code to favor domestic industry as a means to reduce the influence of foreign investment and foreign personnel. The government has engaged in several disputes with foreign oil companies over the terms of production agreements, most recently, in regards to the Kashagan project in 2007-08. Since 2007, Astana has provided financial support to the banking sector which has been struggling with poor asset quality and large foreign loans. |
GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$176.9 billion (2008 est.)
$171.7 billion (2007)
$158.3 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars |
GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$11,500 (2008 est.)
$11,200 (2007 est.)
$10,400 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars |
GDP (official exchange rate):
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$141.2 billion (2008 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate:
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3% (2008 est.)
8.5% (2007 est.)
10.6% (2006 est.) |
GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 5.8%
industry: 39.4%
services: 54.7% (2008 est.) |
Investment (gross fixed):
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27.8% of GDP (2008 est.) |
Population below poverty line:
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13.8% (2007) |
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 3.3%
highest 10%: 26.5% (2004 est.) |
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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30.4 (2005) |
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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18.6% (2008 est.) |
Central bank discount rate:
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11% (31 December 2007) |
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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void |
Stock of money:
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$12.74 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of money - per capita:
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828 USD per capita |
Stock of quasi money:
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$25.75 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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1,673 USD per capita |
Stock of domestic credit:
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$43.75 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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2,842 USD per capita |
Labor force:
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8.358 million (2008 est.) |
Labor force participation rate:
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54.27 % of population |
Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 31.5%
industry: 18.4%
services: 50% (2005 est.) |
Unemployment rate:
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6.9% (2008 est.) |
Budget:
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revenues: $29.64 billion
expenditures: $32.6 billion (2008 est.) |
Budget revenues per capita:
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1,925 USD per capita |
Public debt:
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9.1% of GDP (2008 est.) |
Industries:
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oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, chromite, lead, zinc, copper, titanium, bauxite, gold, silver, phosphates, sulfur, iron and steel; tractors and other agricultural machinery, electric motors, construction materials |
Industrial production growth rate:
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0.7% (2008 est.) |
Electricity - production:
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74.93 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
Electricity - production per capita:
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4,866 kWh per capita |
Electricity - consumption:
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61.81 billion kWh (2006 est.) |
Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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4,014 kWh per capita |
Electricity - exports:
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3.528 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
Electricity - imports:
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3.665 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
Oil - production:
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1.445 million bbl/day (2007 est.) |
Oil - production per capita:
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93,835 bbl/day per capita |
Oil - consumption:
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243,100 bbl/day (2006 est.) |
Oil - consumption - per capita:
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5.76 bbl/year per capita |
Oil - exports:
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1.236 million bbl/day (2005 est.) |
Oil - imports:
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127,600 bbl/day (2005) |
Oil - proved reserves:
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30 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.) |
Natural gas - production:
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27.88 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - production per capita:
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1,811 cu m per capita |
Natural gas - consumption:
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30.58 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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1,986 cu m per capita |
Natural gas - exports:
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8.1 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - imports:
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10.8 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - proved reserves:
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2.832 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.) |
Agriculture - products:
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grain (mostly spring wheat), cotton; livestock |
Current account balance:
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$326 million (2008 est.) |
Current account balance - per capita:
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22 USD per capita |
Exports:
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$66.57 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.) |
Exports per capita:
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4,323 USD per capita |
Exports - commodities:
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oil and oil products 59%, ferrous metals 19%, chemicals 5%, machinery 3%, grain, wool, meat, coal (2001) |
Exports - partners:
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China 15.5%, Germany 11.5%, Russia 11.2%, Italy 7.2%, France 6.7% (2007) |
Imports:
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$37.53 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.) |
Imports per capita:
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2,438 USD per capita |
Imports - commodities:
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machinery and equipment, metal products, foodstuffs |
Imports - partners:
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Russia 35.4%, China 22.1%, Germany 8% (2007) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$22.36 billion (31 December 2008 est.) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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1,453 USD per capita |
Debt - external:
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$103.6 billion (31 December 2008 est.) |
Debt - external - per capita:
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6,728 USD per capita |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$47.66 billion (2008 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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3,095 USD per capita |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$2.188 billion (2008 est.) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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143 USD per capita |
Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$41.38 billion (31 December 2007) |
Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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2,688 USD per capita |
Economic aid - donor:
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void |
Economic aid - recipient:
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$229.2 million (2005) |
Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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15 USD per capita |
Currency (code):
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tenge (KZT) |
Exchange rates:
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tenge (KZT) per US dollar - 120.25 (2008 est.), 122.55 (2007), 126.09 (2006), 132.88 (2005), 136.04 (2004) |
Fiscal year:
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calendar year |
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