INDICATORS - Kazakhstan - August 26

Aug 26 (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= 119.84 119.82
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 10.50 11.00

MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) Aug 15 1.73 July 31 1.67
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

Aug 15 20.51 July 31 21.03
National fund ($bln) Aug 15 26.10 July 31 25.97
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge)July 1 5.20 June 1 5.11

QUARTERLY DATA

Jan-June'08 Jan-March'08 Jan-June'07

GDP (trln tenge) 6.949 3.144 5.495

GDP (pct) +5.4 +6.0 +10.2

MONTHLY DATA

PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO

MONTH

Industrial output (pct) July +0.1 -3.8 +4.5

Inflation (pct) July +0.9 +1.2 +0.9

Unemployment (pct) July 6.3 n/a n/a

Oil production (mnl T) July 5.6 5.9 5.7

Copper output ('000 T) July 32.0 34.6 31.1

Zinc output ('000 T) July 30.8 30.1 27.2

Copper output ('000 T) Jan-July 216.4 --- 239.1

Oil production (mln T) Jan-July 41.2 --- 38.9

Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-July 214.3 --- 213.1

Inflation (pct) Jan-July +6.6 --- +5.5

Industrial output (pct)Jan-July +3.3 --- +5.6

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-June +17.96 --- +7.01

Exports ($bln) Jan-June 35.05 --- 21.81

Imports ($bln) Jan-June 17.09 --- 14.80

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) 16-17

* - 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)