The area of the region is 146.2 thousand sq. km.
Population as of 01.06.2024 - 788.8 thousand people, of which urban - 447.8 thousand people (56.8%).
The region consists of 17 districts, 3 cities of regional and 8 cities of district significance.
Ethnic composition: Kazakhs - 56.6%, Russians - 26.5%, others - 16.9%.
In 2024, within the framework of the Unified Industrialization Map, it is planned to implement 6 projects worth 2.3 billion tenge
with the creation of 185 new jobs. Of these, the largest are:
- a plant for the production of dry building mixtures (expansion) of Tenus LLP (Arshaly district, cost - 750 million tenge, capacity - 90 thousand tons per year);
- construction of a complex for processing legumes, oilseeds and grain crops of Garanti Export LLP (Kokshetau, cost - 400 million tenge, capacity - 48 thousand tons of grain and legumes per year).
10.6 billion tenge were allocated for the implementation of support and development of small and medium businesses in 2024, including 9.2 billion tenge for subsidies, 644.3 million tenge for loan guarantees, 189 million tenge for grant financing, and 529 million tenge for the provision of production infrastructure.
by 38.8% and amounted to 179.3 billion tenge (the decrease is due to large investments in January-June 2023 in the railway industry, alternative energy).
The volume of construction work decreased to 70.7 billion tenge or 93.5% of the 2023 figure. 237.5 thousand square meters of housing were commissioned (a 23.5% decline is due to a shortage of thermal energy in the regional center, which provides 40% of the total regional volume).
of the economically active population (426.2 thousand people).
The average monthly nominal wage
for January-March 2024 was 313.3 thousand tenge, which is
14.4% higher than the 2023 level.
The consumer price index was 104.3%, including for food products - 103%.
As of July 1, 2024, 301.3 billion tenge or 98.5%
of the financing plan for the reporting period was spent.
The state budget received 224.8 billion tenge in taxes and other mandatory payments, or 88.6% of the forecast, including 119.2 billion tenge to the republican budget (73.7% of the forecast), and 105.5 billion tenge to the local budget (114.9% of the forecast).
The coverage of children aged 2 to 6 years with preschool education is 92.3%.
In the field of education, the construction of a school for 80 children in the village of Otemis in the Tselinograd district and an extension to special boarding school No. 4 in Kokshetau has been completed. The construction of 6 schools is ongoing: in Birzhan sal (Bulandy village), Sandytausky (Petrovka village), Tselinogradsky (Zhana Zhol village) districts, the cities of Stepnogorsk (Bestobe settlement), Kosshy and Kokshetau,
as well as 5 kindergartens: in Tselinogradsky district (Karaotkel village), the cities of Kosshy (1 facility) and Kokshetau (3 facilities).
Within the framework of the National Project "Comfortable School", the construction of 9 schools with the connection of engineering infrastructure is ongoing: in Tselinogradsky district - 7 projects (in the villages of Karazhar, Karaotkel, Kabanbai Batyr, Koyandy, Akmol - 1 project each and Talapker - 2 schools), in the city of Kokshetau - 2 projects.
In the field of healthcare, the construction of the Primary Health Care Center has been completed in the village of Koyandy, Tselinogradsky district. The construction of a first aid post in the village of Novoselskoye in the Atbasarsky district, and a hospital combined with a clinic in the city of Stepnyak in the Birzhan sal district, continues. Within the framework of the National Project "Modernization of Rural Healthcare", the implementation of 35 projects has been launched with the connection of engineering infrastructure (11 medical outpatient clinics in the villages of: Novorybinka of Akkolsky, Arnasai of Arshalynsky, Erkinshilik of Ereimentausky, Svobodnoye and Aksai of Yesilsky, Aidabul of Zerendinsky, Arayly, Zhalgyzkudyk, Nuresil, Orazak of Tselinogradsky, Novokubanka of Shortandysky districts; 21 FAPs in the villages of: Kyna, Uryupinka of Akkolsky, Sergeyevka of Atbasarsky, Andykozha Batyr of Birzhan sal district, Novobratskoye, Partizanka and Altyndy of Bulandysky, Baumanskoye of Yegindykolsky, Kirovskoye of Zhaksynsky, Malik Gabdullin of Zerendinsky, Tonkeris, Karamendy Batyr, Manshuk, Otemis, Zhana Zhaynak, Zharlykol, R. Koshkarbaeva and Prirechnoye Tselinogradsky, Prigorodnoye, Tonkeris and Klyuchi Shortandinsky districts; 3 medical points in the villages: Razdolnoye, Shalkar and Yntymak, Tselinograd district).
For 2024, 34.6 billion tenge have been allocated for the development of water supply and sanitation systems. The funds are directed to the construction of 23 (10.5 billion tenge)
and reconstruction of 43 facilities (21.4 billion tenge), development of design and estimate documentation for 5 projects (200.8 million tenge), exploration work (606.9 million tenge), routine repairs of 10 facilities (640.2 million tenge), acquisition of 48 KBM (1.3 billion tenge).
In January-June 2024, there was a 26.9% increase in serious crimes, with a 77.8% clearance rate. The number of especially serious crimes increased by 1.7 times, with a 100% clearance rate.