As of January 1, 2025, the number of registered small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) amounted to 64,177 thousand units (102.7% compared to December 2023).
The number of active SMEs is 59,196 thousand units (102.2% compared to December 2023).
The share of active SMEs in the total number of registered entities was 92.2%.
The structure of SMEs as of January 1, 2025:
- small and medium-sized businesses - 9,399 units.
- individual entrepreneurs - 43,198 units.
- peasant (farm) households - 6,599 units.
In January-December 2024, SMEs paid 185.834 billion tenge in taxes (126.6% of the same period in 2023, 37.6% of total tax revenue).
The number of people employed in SMEs as of July 1, 2024 was 145,237 thousand people (100.6% of the same period in 2023).
The volume of production, work and services of SMEs for January-June 2024 is 804.628 billion tenge (114.0% of the same period in 2023).
The gross added value of SMEs for January-June 2024 is 494.0 billion tenge or 30.8%.
In January-December 2024, 7,281 new jobs were created in SMEs (according to district/city akimats). In January-November 2024, second-tier banks issued loans to SMEs for 135.8 billion tenge, which is 94.5% of the volume of loans issued to businesses (or 28.6% of the total volume of loans in the banking sector), including 22.9% in agriculture and 2.4% in the processing industry.