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INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - January 27

Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:09pm IST 

 Jan 27 (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=          121.70     121.65
  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-Dec'08  Jan-Sept'08 Jan-Dec'07
 GDP (trln tenge)   n/a        11.614      12.567
 GDP (pct)         +3.1        +3.9        +8.5
                              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)       Dec       6.7      6.4     7.3
 Oil production (mnl T)   Dec       6.3      6.0     5.7
 Copper output ('000 T)   Dec      31.3     36.1    42.5
 Zinc output ('000 T)     Dec      31.2     30.4    31.2
 Copper output ('000 T)  Jan-Dec  398.0      ---   406.1
 Oil production (mln T)  Jan-Dec   70.7      ---    67.1
 Zinc output ('000 T)    Jan-Dec  365.6      ---   358.2
 Inflation (pct)         Jan-Dec   +9.5      ---   +18.8
 Industrial output (pct) Jan-Dec   +2.1      ---    +4.5
 Trade balance ($bln)    Jan-Nov  +32.69     ---  +12.81
 Exports ($bln)          Jan-Nov   66.95     ---   42.58
 Imports ($bln)          Jan-Nov   34.26     ---   29.77
                FORECASTS FOR 2009
 GDP growth (pct)                          2.0
 Annual inflation (pct)                    9.0
 Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) 571.4/-3.4
 Budget revenues (bln tenge)             2.861
 Budget spending (bln tenge)             3.432
 Industrial output (pct)                   n/a
 Oil output (mln T)                      76-79
 Grain harvest  (mln T, clean weight)*     n/a
 Unemployment (pct)                        8.0
 

 ANNUAL COMPARISONS
         2008  2007  2006  2005   2004  2003  2002  2001
  GDP        3.1  +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)
          7.0   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  67.1  65.0  61.9   59.4  51.5  47.2  40.1
  Copper output ('000 T)
        398.0 405.8 427.5 418.8  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)
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