INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - July 17

July 17 (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= 120.14 120.05
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 10.50 11.00

MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) June 30 1.75 June 16 1.83
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

June 30 21.23 June 16 21.37
National fund ($bln) June 30 25.67 June 16 24.05
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge)June 1 5.11 May 1 4.85

QUARTERLY DATA

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

GDP (trln tenge) 3.144 12.567 2.532

GDP (pct) +6.0 +8.7 +10.6

MONTHLY DATA

PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO

MONTH

Industrial output (pct) June -3.8 -1.0 -3.2

Inflation (pct) June +1.2 +1.0 +0.8

Unemployment (pct) March 6.8 7.2 n/a

Oil production (mnl T) June 5.9 6.1 5.2

Copper output ('000 T) June 34.6 32.0 30.6

Zinc output ('000 T) June 30.1 31.2 29.0

Copper output ('000 T) Jan-June 183.5 --- 185.9

Oil production (mln T) Jan-June 35.6 --- 33.3

Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-May 183.5 --- 185.9

Inflation (pct) Jan-June +5.7 --- +4.6

Industrial output (pct)Jan-June +3.8 --- +6.8

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-May +14.43 --- +5.67

Exports ($bln) Jan-May 28.01 --- 17.50

Imports ($bln) Jan-May 13.58 --- 11.83

FORECASTS FOR 2008

GDP (pct) 5.3

Annual inflation (pct)* 10.0

Annual inflation (pct)** 9.9

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) 9.6

Oil output (mln T) 67.6

Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight) 15.9

* - government

** - National Bank

ANNUAL COMPARISONS

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
GDP +8.7 +10.7 +9.7 +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)