The short-term economic indicator in January-March 2021 was 98.2%

Economic sector

The short-term economic indicator in January-March 2021compared with January-March2020 was 98.2%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-March 2021was2101.2 billion tenge, which is 9.6% less than in January-March 2020

Industrial output in January-March 2021 was 8097.3 billion tenge, which is 0.1% higher than in January-March 2020. The increase was in the manufacturing industry (by 7.5%), electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air-conditioned (by 4.9%), water supply, collection, processing and disposal of waste, industrial pollution elimination activities (by 8.6%). The decrease was recorded in the mining and quarrying (by 6.9%).

The volume of gross output (services) of agricultural, foresty and fisheries in January-March 2021 was 591.3 billion tenge, which is 2.8% more than in January-March 2020

The volume of the construction works (services) in January-March 2021 was 514.1 billion tenge, which is 13.1% more than in January-March 2020.

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

The volume of freight turnover in January-March 2021 amounted to 133 billion ton-kilometers (given the estimation of the volume of turnover of individual entrepreneurs in volved in commercial transportation), which is 3.3% less than January-March 2020. The volume of passenger turnover was 19.2billion passenger-kilometers and decreased by 70.6%.

In «Communication» sector the volume index in January-March 2021 was 109.9%.

In «Trade» sector the volume index in January-March 2021 was 97.3%.

The volume of retail trade in January-March 2021 was 2523.6 billion tenge or 98.8% as compared to January-March 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The volume of wholesale trade in January-March 2021 was 5139.1 billion tenge or 99.5% as compared to January-March 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The foreign tradeturnover of Kazakhstan in January-February 2021was11830.5 million US dollarsandcompared to January-February 2020 it decreased by171% (in nominal terms), including export – 7081.8 millionUS dollars (248% less, in nominal terms), imports – 4748.7 millionUS dollars(21% less, in nominal terms).

The number of registered legal entities as of April 1, 2021 was 463854 units and compared with the corresponding period of the previous year increased by 3%, including 455251 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating entities was 337111, including 328730 small businesses (less than100 employees)

The consumer price index in March 2021 compared to December 2020 was 101.9%. The food prices have increased by 3%, non-food – by 1.5%, paid services – by 0.9%. Prices of industrial products in March 2021 compared to December 2020 has increased by 15.1%.

Social sector

Per capita nominal income of the population estimated in February 2021 was 122392 tenge (preliminary data) which is 11% higher compared to February 2020, the real monetary income in February 2021 increased by 3.4%.

Average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (estimated) in March 2021 was 224715 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 March 2021 was 197.8 thousand people or 2.2% of the labor force

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