INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - April 16

April 16 (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= 120.26 120.32

Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 11.00 9.00

MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) March 31 1.58 March 14 1.57
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

March 31 19.26 March 14 19.47
National fund ($bln) March 31 23.12 March 14 22.84
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge) Feb 1 4.60 Jan 1 4.61

QUARTERLY DATA

Jan-March'08 Jan-Dec'07 J an-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) March +0.6 +0.8 +0.7

Unemployment (pct) March 6.8 7.2 n/a

Oil production (mnl T) Feb 5.6 5.8 5.3

Copper output ('000 T) Feb 27.9 29.5 32.1

Zinc output ('000 T) Feb 29.4 31.0 29.5

Copper output ('000 T) Jan-Feb 57.4 --- 65.9

Oil production (mln T) Jan-Feb 11.5 --- 10.8

Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-Feb 60.4 --- 62.0

Inflation (pct) Jan-March +2.5 --- +2.6

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

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-Feb +2.88 --- +1.51

Exports ($bln) Jan-Feb 5.18 --- 3.65

Imports ($bln) Jan-Feb 2.30 --- 2.14

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 (Oct 8, 2007) BBB- stable 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)