The short-term economic indicator in January-February 2021 was 96%

Economic sector

The short-term economic indicator in January-February 2021compared with January-February2020 was 96%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-February 2021was1191.3 billion tenge, which is 20.3% less than in January-February 2020

Industrial output in January-February 2021 was 5133 billion tenge, which is 1.9% less than in January-February 2020. The decrease was recorded in the mining and quarrying (by 8.5%). Mean while, there is an increase in the manufacturing industry (by 6.1%), electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air-conditioned (by 4.8%), water supply, collection, processing and disposal of waste, industrial pollution elimination activities (by 8.3%).

The volume of gross output (services) of agricultural, foresty and fisheries in January-February 2021was345.5 billion tenge, which is 3.1% more than in January-February 2020

The volume of the construction works (services) in January-February 2021 was 226.8 billion tenge, which is 9.7% more than in January-February 2020.

In «Transport and warehousing» sector the volume index in January-February 2021 was 80.9%.

The volume of freight turnover in January-February 2021 amounted to 87.5 billion ton-kilometers (given the estimation of the volume of turnover of individual entrepreneurs in volved in commercial transportation), which is 3.9% less than January-February 2020. The volume of passenger turnover was 12billion passenger-kilometers and decreased by 73.6%.

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

In «Trade» sector the volume index in January-February 2021 was 94.7%.

The volume of retail trade in January-February 2021 was 1601.2 billion tenge or 97% as compared to January-February 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The volume of wholesale trade in January-February 2021 was 3252.9 billion tenge or 96.4% as compared to January-February 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The foreign tradeturnover of Kazakhstan in January 2021was5668million US dollarsandcompared to January 2020 it decreased by19.8% (in nominal terms), including export – 3240.3 millionUS dollars (28.5% less, in nominal terms), imports – 2427.7 millionUS dollars(4.2% less, in nominal terms).

The number of registered legal entities as of March 1, 2021 was 463015 units and compared with the corresponding period of the previous year increased by 2.9%, including 454394 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating entities was 335185 including 326790 small businesses (less than100 employees)

The consumer price index in February 2021 compared to December 2020 was 101.3%. The food prices have increased by 2.2%, non-food – by 0.7%, paid services – by 0.6%. Prices of industrial products in February 2021 compared to December 2020 has increased by 8.4%.

Social sector

Per capita nominal income of the population estimated in January 2021 was 115684 tenge (preliminary data) which is 4.8% higher compared to January 2020, the real monetary income in January 2021 decreased by 2.4%.

Average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (estimated) in February 2021 was 223213 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 February 2021 was 192 thousand people or 2.1% of the labor force

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