The short-terme conomic indicator in January 2021 was 94.2%

Economic sector

The short-term economic indicator in January 2021compared with January2020 was 94.2%Calculation of the short-term economic indicator is implemented to ensure efficiency and is based on the change in output indexes for basic sectors: agriculture, industry, construction, trade, transport and communications, constituting over 60% of GDP.

The volume of investment in fixed assets in January 2021was 571.4 billion tenge, which is 17.5% less than in January 2020

Industrial output in January 2021 was 2435.4 billion tenge, which is 4.1% less than in January 2020. The decrease was recorded in the mining and quarrying (by 10.2%). Mean while, there is an increase in the manufacturing industry (by 3%), electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air-conditioned (by 4.9%), water supply, collection, processing and disposal of waste, industrial pollution elimination activities (by 2.1%).

The volume of gross output (services) of agricultural, foresty and fisheries in January 2021was170.6 billion tenge, which is 2.5% more than in January 2020

The volume of the construction works (services) in January 2021 was 78.2 billion tenge, which is 7% more than in January 2020.

In «Transport and warehousing» sector the volume index in January 2021 was 82.6%.

The volume of freight t turnover in January 2021 amounted to 45.6 billion ton-kilometers (given the estimation of the volume of turnover of individual entrepreneurs in volved in commercial transportation), which is 2.7% less than January 2020. The volume of passenger turnover was 5.9 billion passenger-kilometers and decreased by 75.3%.

In «Communication» sector the volume index in January 2021 was 109.4%.

In «Trade» sector the volume index in January 2021 was 91.9%.

The volume of retail trade in January 2021 was 789.4 billion tenge or 954% as compared to January 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The volume of wholesale trade in January 2021 was 1582.1 billion tenge or 92.7% as compared to January 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The foreign tradeturnover of Kazakhstanin January-December 2020was 85031.1 million US dollarsandcompared to January-December 2019 it decreased by13% (in nominal terms), including export – 46949.7 millionUS dollars (19.1% less, in nominal terms), imports – 38081.4 millionUS dollars(4.1% less, in nominal terms).

The number of registered legal entities as of February 1, 2021 was 462945 units and compared with the corresponding period of the previous year increased by 3.3%, including 454325 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating entities was 332517, including 324137 small businesses (less than100 employees)

The consumer price index in January 2021 compared to December 2020 was 100.6%. The food prices have increased by 1.1%, non-food and paid services –by 0.3%. Prices of industrial products in January 2021 compared to December 2020 has increased by 5.1%.

Social sector

Per capita nominal income of the population estimated in December 2020 was 115704 tenge (preliminary data) which is 4.3% higher compared to December 2019, the real monetary income in December2020 decreased by 3%.

Average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (estimated) in January 2021 was 222261 tenge

The number of unemployed people determined by the ILO methodology for the IV quarter of 2020 amounted to 453 thousand people.The unemployment rate was 4.9% of the labor force. Number of persons registered with employment offices as unemployed at the end of January 2021 was 172.3 thousand people or 1.9% of the labor force

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