INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - May 8

May 8 (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= 120.56 120.50

Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 11.00 9.00

MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) April 30 1.53 April 15 1.50
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

April 30 20.72 April 15 19.78
National fund ($bln) April 30 23.30 April 15 23.35
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge)March 1 4.65 Feb 1 4.60

QUARTERLY DATA

Jan-March'08 Jan-Dec'07 Jan-March'07

GDP (trln tenge) n/a 12.567 2.532

GDP (pct) +5.3 +8.5 +10.5

MONTHLY DATA

PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO

MONTH

Industrial output (pct) March +10.0 +4.3 +10.2

Inflation (pct) April +0.9 +0.6 +0.5

Unemployment (pct) March 6.8 7.2 n/a

Oil production (mnl T) March 6.3 5.6 5.7

Copper output ('000 T) March 31.0 27.9 40.9

Zinc output ('000 T) March 31.7 29.4 32.4

Copper output ('000 T) Jan-March 88.4 --- 106.8

Oil production (mln T) Jan-March 17.8 --- 16.5

Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-March 92.0 --- 94.4

Inflation (pct) Jan-April +3.4 --- +3.1

Industrial output (pct) Jan-March +3.7 --- +9.6

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-March +5.69 --- +2.20

Exports ($bln) Jan-March 10.29 --- 6.35

Imports ($bln) Jan-March 4.60 --- 4.15

FORECASTS FOR 2008

GDP (pct) 5-7

Annual inflation (pct)* 10.0

Annual inflation (pct)** 9.9

Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) -210.5/1.4

Budget revenues (bln tenge) 2.694

Budget spending (bln tenge) 2.905

Industrial output (pct) 9.6

Oil output (mln T) 70

Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight) n/a

* - government

** - National Bank

ANNUAL COMPARISONS

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
GDP +8.5 +10.6 +9.4 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8 +13.5 +9.8
Ind output (pct)

+4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8 +13.5 +14.6
Inflation (pct)

+10.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6 +6.4 +9.8
Yr-end M3 (trln tenge)

4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77 0.57 0.40
Yr end unemployment (pct)

7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3 10.4 12.8
Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)

20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9 15.9 11.6
Oil output (mln T)

67.5 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2 40.1 35.3
Copper output ('000 T)

405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0 421.8 394.7

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 (Dec 17, 2007) BBB negative outlook

(State Statistics Agency website www.stat.kz,

Stock Exchange www.kase.kz/eng/

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