INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - January 15

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on
data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government
institutions, the central bank and exchanges:

* updated today

CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE

LATEST PREVIOUS
*tenge/dollar AFINEX01 KZT= 121.37 121.26
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 10.00 10.50

MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) Dec 31 1.47 Nov 30 1.30
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

Dec 31 19.40 Nov 30 19.10
National fund ($bln) Dec 31 27.33 Nov 30 26.80
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge) Nov 1 5.69 Oct 1 5.89

QUARTERLY DATA

Jan-Sept'08 Jan-June'08 Jan-Sept'07

GDP (trln tenge) 11.614 6.949 8.971

GDP (pct) +3.9 +5.4 +9.7

MONTHLY DATA

PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO

MONTH

Industrial output (pct) Nov -0.2 +4.6 n/a

Inflation (pct) Dec +0.2 +0.4 +1.9

Unemployment (pct) Nov 6.7 n/a 7.0

Oil production (mnl T) Nov 5.9 6.1 5.6

Copper output ('000 T) Nov 36.1 36.4 38.0

Zinc output ('000 T) Nov 30.4 30.7 30.3

Copper output ('000 T) Jan-Nov 366.7 --- 363.6

Oil production (mln T) Jan-Nov 64.3 --- 61.4

Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-Nov 334.4 --- 327.0

Inflation (pct) Jan-Dec +9.5 --- +18.8

Industrial output (pct) Jan-Dec +2.1 --- +4.5

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-Oct +31.07 --- +11.07

Exports ($bln) Jan-Oct 62.37 --- 37.89

Imports ($bln) Jan-Oct 31.30 --- 26.82

FORECASTS FOR 2008

GDP growth (pct) 4.0

Annual inflation (pct)* 9.5

Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) -334.4/2.1

Budget revenues (bln tenge) 2.729

Budget spending (bln tenge) 3.064

Industrial output (pct)* 2.1

Oil output (mln T)* 70.6

Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)* 15.6

* - actual data

ANNUAL COMPARISONS

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
GDP n/a +8.7 +10.7 +9.7 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8 +13.5
Ind output (pct)

+2.1 +4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8 +13.5
Inflation (pct)

+9.5 +18.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6 +6.4
Yr-end M3 (trln tenge)

n/a 4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77 0.57
Yr end unemployment (pct)

n/a 7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3 10.4
Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)

15.6 20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9 15.9
Oil output (mln T)

70.6 67.5 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2 40.1
Copper output ('000 T)

n/a 405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0 421.8

Note: Oil output includes gas condensate

KAZAKHSTAN'S LONG-TERM RATINGS

S&P (April 30, 2008) BBB- negative outlook

Moody's (June 9, 2006) Baa2 stable outlook

Fitch (Nov 10, 2008) BBB- negative outlook

(State Statistics Agency website www.stat.kz,

Stock Exchange www.kase.kz/eng/

Central Bank www.nationalbank.kz/?switch=eng)