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According to preliminary data, in January-June 2023, the volume of mutual trade with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as the EAEU) amounted to 300,5 million US dollars, which was 92,1% against the level of January-June 2022, including exports – 59,2 million US dollars (92,9%) or 19,7% of the volume of mutual trade, imports – 241,3 million US dollars (91,9%) or 80,3% of the volume of mutual trade.
The volume of mutual trade with the Russian Federation was formed in the amount of 257,1 million US dollars (85,6% of the volume of mutual trade), with the Republic of Kyrgyzstan – 25,8 million US dollars (8,6%), with the Republic of Belarus – 17,4 million US dollars (5,8%), with the Republic of Armenia – 0,2 million US dollars (0,1%).
In the total volume of exports to the EAEU countries, 63,2% is accounted for by the Russian Federation, 34,1% - by the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, 2,7% - by the Republic of Belarus.
Socio-demographic indicators
The population of the city as of July 1, 2023 amounted to 1205.9 thousand people.
Natural population growth in January-June 2023 amounted to 12345 people (in January-June 2022 - 12147 people). January-June 2023 newborns were registered by 0.3% more than in January-June 2022, and the deaths decreased by 6.2%.
The balance of migration is positive and amounted to 1345 people (in January-June 2022 - 2096 people), including in external migration - 296 (213), in internal - 1049 (1883).
Standard of living
Average per capita nominal monetary income of the population according to the assessment in I quarter of 2023 amounted to 102106 tenge. Compared to the corresponding period in 2022, the increase was 14.9% on nominal and a decrease of 3.6% on real money incomes.
Labor market and wages
The number of unemployed in the II quarter of 2023 amounted to 21845 people. The unemployment rate was 4.9% of the labor force. The number of persons registered with the employment authorities as unemployed as of the end of July 2023 amounted to 12098 people, or 2.7% of the labor force.
The average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (excluding small enterprises engaged in entrepreneurial activities) in the II quarter of 2023 amounted to 290858 tenge, the increase compared to the II quarter of 2022 was 17%. The real wage index in II quarter of 2023 amounted to 101.6%.
Prices
The consumer price index in July 2023 compared to December 2022 was 105.7%. Prices for food products increased by 3.5%, nonfood products - by 5.7%, paid services - by 8.8%. The prices of enterprises producing industrial products in July 2023 compared to December 2022 increased by 4%.
Business statistics
The number of registered legal entities as of August 1, 2023 amounted to 28004 units and increased by 1% compared to the corresponding date of the previous year, including 27566 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating legal entities amounted to 22782 units, among which 22353 units are small enterprises.
The number of registered small and medium enterprises (legal entities) in the city amounted to 25654 units and increased by 4.5% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
Trade
The physical volume index for the "Trade" industry in January-July 2023 amounted to 107.4%.
The volume of retail trade in January-July 2023 amounted to 432567.8 million tenge or to the level of January-July 2022 amounted to 123.1%.
The volume of wholesale trade amounted to 687901.1 million tenge or 99.8% against the level of January-July 2022.
According to preliminary data, in January-June 2023, mutual trade with the EAEU countries amounted to USD 300,5 million and decreased by 7,9% compared to January-June 2022, including exports - USD 59,2 million (by 7,1% less), imports – 241,3 million USD (8,1% less).
Real sector of the economy
The volume of the gross regional product for January – March 2023 amounted to 700152.1 million tenge, the volume index compared to the corresponding period last year amounted to 106.5% In the structure of GRP, the share of production of goods amounted to 28.3%, services – 63.1%.
The volume of industrial production in January-July 2023 amounted to 574106.9 million tenge in current prices, which is 0.3% more than in the corresponding period of 2022.
In water supply, waste collection, processing and disposal, and pollution control activities production increased - by 35.3%. In the manufacturing industry - by 0,7%, in the mining and quarrying industry, production decreased - by 1.4%, in the supply of electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air conditioning - by 0.2%,
The volume of gross output (services) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in January-July 2023 amounted to 26110.7 million tenge, which is more than in January- July 2022 by 2.7%.
The volume of construction works (services) in January-July 2023 amounted to 86465.5 million tenge, or 108.6% of January-July 2022.
The volume of cargo turnover in January-July 2023 amounted to 6208.8 million tkm (taking into account the estimated volume of cargo turnover of individual entrepreneurs engaged in commercial transportation), or 139.9% compared January-July 2022. The volume of passenger traffic amounted to 2895.1 million pkm, or 101.9% compared to the level of January-July 2022.
The volume of investments in fixed assets in January-July 2023 amounted to 282803.6 million tenge, or 123.9% compared to the corresponding period of 2022.
In January-July 2023, the volume of retail trade in Shymkent amounted to 432567.8 million tenge, or 123.1% against the level of January-July 2022.
Retail sales of goods by trading enterprises amounted to 384870.4 million tenge, or 130.5% compared to January-July 2022. The volume of trade by individual entrepreneurs, including those trading in the markets, amounted to 47697.4 million tenge, or 84.7% compared to January-July 2022.
In terms of districts, the Abay (38.7% of the total) and Al-Farabi (24.6%) districts occupy the largest share in the formation of retail trade volumes in the city.
The volume of wholesale trade in the city in January-July 2023 amounted to 687901.1 million tenge, or 99.8% compared to January-July 2022.
According to the sample survey of employment of the population for the second quarter of 2023. 428.3 thousand people were employed in various sectors of the economy of city , of which 294,9 thousand people worked for hire (68.8% of the total number of people employed in the economy), 133,5 thousand people were self-employed (31.2% of the total number of people employed in the economy). The level of economic activity of the population aged 15 years and older was 58.8%. The proportion of persons not included in the labor force was 41.2% of the population aged 15 and over.
The number of unemployed (persons aged 15 and older who did not have a profitable occupation, were actively looking for it and were ready to start it) in the second quarter of 2023 amounted to 21.9 thousand people. The unemployment rate was 4.9%.
Methodological explanations
The unemployed (according to the methodology of the International Labor Organization) are persons who did not have a profitable occupation (job), were actively looking for it and were ready to start it.
Consumer price index, which characterizes the level of inflation, in July 2023 compared to June 2023 amounted to 100.7%. Prices for food products decreased by 1.1%, and for non-food products - increased by 0.4%, paid services to the population - by 3.5%.
In the food market, an increase in prices was noted for semolina - by 7.4%, millet - by 3.1%, pearl barley - by 1.6%, hard cheese - by 1.4%, and their decrease for buckwheat - by 5.1%, margarine and other fats - by 4.3%, yogurt - by 3.8%, honey - by 2.3%, mayonnaise - by 1%. Among fruits and vegetables, cucumbers fell in price - by 40.3%, sweet peppers - by 38%, tomatoes - by 31.1%, apples - by 18.9%, bananas - by 14.6%, beets - by 3.4%, while cauliflower - 2 times more expensive, oranges - by 35.5%, garlic - by 13.6%, white cabbage - by 13.4%, lemons - by 3.4%, potatoes - by 1.2%.
Of non-food products, price increases were recorded for audiovisual equipment and photographic equipment, information processing equipment - by 8.6%, cigarettes - by 5.5%, gasoline AI-98 - by 4.3%, gasoline AI-95.96 - by 4.1%, liquefied gas - by 3.3%, washing powder - by 1.2%, household appliances, glassware, cutlery and household utensils - by 1.1%, and their reduction for diesel fuel - by 0.7%. Among pharmaceutical products, prices for activated charcoal rose by 4.5%, detrimax vitamin D3 - by 4%, ingavirin - by 2.5%, rennie - by 1.9%, aspirin - by 1.7%, fenistil new drops - by 1.6%, iodamarin - by 1.4%, and acyclovir - by 4.7%, nurofen - by 2.9%, azithromycin - by 1.7%, omez - by 1.2%.
In the field of paid services, tariffs for water disposal increased by 30.9%, electricity - by 13.1%, network gas - by 9.6%. Intercity bus prices went up by 17.5%, air transport - by 16.4%, taxis - by 11.3%, children's attractions - by 9.7%, hairdressers and beauty salons - by 5.5%, dental services - by 4.3%, cellular communications - by 2.8%, and rail transport fell in price by 4%.
Methodological explanations
The consumer price index, which characterizes the level of inflation, reflects the change over time in the general level of prices for goods and services purchased by the population for personal consumption. The set of goods and services for monitoring consumer prices and calculating the CPI is a single sample for all regions of Kazakhstan. The list of goods and services contains 508 items, which representatively includes the most representative types that occupy the largest share in the consumption of the population.The collection of information on prices is carried out directly at the places of sale of goods (services) by price registrars. Prices are fixed for goods paid on the day of the survey, including taxes, but excluding additional fees for their delivery
In the II quarter of 2023 the average monthly nominal salary of one employee in the city (excluding small businesses engaged in entrepreneurial activities) amounted to 290858 tenge. The index of nominal wages against the corresponding quarter of last year amounted to 117%, real - 101.6%.
The maximum amount of wages was noted in the sectors of transport and warehousing - 491778 tenge and financial and insurance activities – 436987 tenge. The minimum agriculture, forestry and fisheries - 168759 tenge, provision of other types of services in the sectors is 135572 tenge.
Methodological explanations
The average monthly nominal wage of one employee is determined by dividing the amount of the accrued wage fund by the actual number of employees and by the number of months in the reporting period.
In accordance with international standards, the average monthly nominal wage of one employee is formed taking into account additional payments, allowances, bonuses, as well as taxes and other deductions (income tax, mandatory pension contributions).
The total volume of investments in fixed assets in 2022, taking into account the revaluation, amounted to 549617.8 million tenge, or 113.8% compared to 2021.
Priority investment sectors are real estate operations, the industry share of which in the total investment amounted to 42.8% and 22.6%, respectively. The main investment investments are made by small enterprises, the volume of which amounted to 469221.7 million tenge, or 123.5% compared to 2021.
Methodological explanations
Investments in fixed assets - investments in order to obtain economic, social or environmental benefits for investors in the case of new construction, as well as the expansion, reconstruction and modernization of facilities (which lead to an increase in the initial cost of the facility), the acquisition of machinery, equipment, vehicles, the cost of formation of the main herd, perennial plantations, etc.
In the city of Shymkent in January-June 2023 (taking into account the assessment of the volume of work performed by individual entrepreneurs engaged in commercial transportation) 10562.3 thousand tons of cargo and 49.7 million passenger were transported, which is respectively 122.2% and 114% compared to the level of January-June 2022.
For the same period, the cargo turnover amounted to 5363.4 million tkm and the passenger turnover 2412.1 million pkm, which is 144.6% and 100%, respectively, compared to the level of January-June 2022.
Methodological explanations
The main indicators of the work of transport (freight transported, cargo turnover, passengers transported, passenger turnover) includes an assessment of the volume of work of entrepreneurs involved in road commercial transportation.
Transported cargo-the number of cargo transported by transport in tons.
Cargo turnover of transport is the volume of work of transport for the transport of goods, expressed in ton-kilometers.
It is defined as the sum of the products of the weight of each consignment (dispatch) of the transported cargo times the distance of its transportation.
Passengers carried-the number of passengers carried over a certain period of time. The unit of observation in passenger traffic statistics is a passenger trip.
Passenger turnover of transport is the volume of work of transport for the transportation of passengers. The unit of measurement is passenger-kilometre, i.e. the movement of 1 passenger over a distance of 1 km. It is determined by summing the products of the quantity passengers of each carriage for the distance of carriage in kilometers.
In January-June 2023,industrial enterprises of the city of Shymkent produced products(including small, subsidiary enterprises, the household sector) at current prices for 498299.3 million tenge, including mining and quarrying products-696 million tenge, manufacturing industry – 433636.2 million tenge, electricity supply, gas, steam supply and air conditioning - by 45084.5million tenge, water supply; sewerage system, control over the colletion and distribution of waste – 18882.6 million tenge. The industrial production index (PPI) as a whole by the corresponding period in 2022 and amounted to 101.1%.
The volume of food production increased by 3.2% compared to the corresponding period of 2022 and amounted to 76584.1million tenge (the share in the industry is 15.3%), due to an increase in the volume of flour - by 7.3% and fresh bread - by 5.1%.
In the production of coke and refined petroleum products, industrial products worth 109057.8 million tenge were produced (the share of the industry in the industry is 21.8%), which is 8.7% less compared to the corresponding period of 2022, mainly due to a decrease in the output of motor fuel by 5.3%, jet fuel of the kerosene type by 16.9%, gas oil by 8.5%.
The production of other non-metallic mineral products decreased by 5.7% compared to the corresponding period of 2022 and amounted to 49820.3 million tenge (the share of the industry in the industry is 9.9%), due to a decrease in the volume of concrete products for construction purposes - by 6%.
And also, the production of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations (the share of the industry in the industry is 5.2%) produced products in the amount of 25863.3 million tenge, the IPP amounted to 83.1%. The decrease in output due to medicines -by 17.8%.
Methodological explanations
The industrial production index is a relative indicator that characterizes the change in the volume of industrial production in the compared periods. Clarification of operational data is made based on the results of the annual statistical observation.
The gross regional prodyuct (GRP) of the city of Shymkent per capita for January-March 2023 amounted to 585.8 thousand tenge.
In the order of the reqions of the Republik in terms of GRP the city of Shymkent ranks 13th and in terms of GRP per capita – 17th.
The volume of gross regional product for the 1 st quarter of 2023 amounted to 70012.1 million tenge, the index of physical volume to the corresponding period last year amounted to 106.5%. In the structure of GRP, the share of production of goods amounted to 28.3%, services – 63.1%.
Methodological explanations
Gross regional product is the value of the final goods and services of a particular region, over a certain period of time. GRP is calculated by the production method and is the sum of the gross value added of all economic activities and includes net taxes. The amount of GRP must be equal to the Gross Domestic Product.
