The short-term economic indicator in January-April 2021 was 101.2%

Economic sector

The short-term economic indicator in January-April 2021compared with January-April2020 was 101.2%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-April 2021was2868.4 billion tenge, which is 6.6% less than in January-April 2020

Industrial output in January-April 2021 was 11045.3 billion tenge, which is 0.8% higher than in January-April 2020. The decrease was recorded in the mining and quarrying (by 6.3%). Mean while, there is an increase in the in the manufacturing industry (by 7.7%), electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air-conditioned (by 5.3%), water supply, collection, processing and disposal of waste, industrial pollution elimination activities (by 7.5%).

The volume of gross output (services) of agricultural, foresty and fisheries in January-April 2021was831.2 billion tenge, which is 3% more than in January-April 2020

The volume of the construction works (services) in January-April 2021 was 752.6 billion tenge, which is 12.5% more than in January-April 2020.

In «Transport and warehousing» sector the volume index in January-April 2021 was 91%.

The volume of freight turnover in January-April 2021 amounted to 179.5billion ton-kilometers (given the estimation of the volume of turnover of individual entrepreneurs in volved in commercial transportation), which is 1.5% less than January-April 2020. The volume of passenger turnover was 26.6billion passenger-kilometers and decreased by 60.7%.

In «Communication» sector the volume index in January-April 2021 was 111.1%.

In «Trade» sector the volume index in January-April 2021 was 105.7%.

The volume of retail trade in January-April 2021 was 3280.9 billion tenge or 106.2% as compared to January-April 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The volume of wholesale trade in January-April 2021 was 7112.2 billion tenge or 108% as compared to January-April 2020 (in the comparable prices).

The foreign tradeturnover of Kazakhstan in January-March 2021was197298million US dollarsandcompared to January-March 2020 it decreased by9.4% (in nominal terms), including export – 11526.5 millionUS dollars (19.7% less, in nominal terms), imports – 8203.3 millionUS dollars(10.5% more, in nominal terms).

The number of registered legal entities as of May 1, 2021 was 465722 units and compared with the corresponding period of the previous year increased by 3.3%, including 457130 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating entities was 339639, including 331264 small businesses (less than100 employees)

The consumer price index in April 2021 compared to December 2020 was 102.7%. The food prices have increased by 4.1%, non-food – by 2.5%, paid services – by 1.3%. Prices of industrial products in April 2021 compared to December 2020 has increased by 20.8%.

Social sector

Per capita nominal income of the population estimated in March 2021 was 122765 tenge (preliminary data) which is 11.2% higher compared to March 2020, the real monetary income in Maech 2021 increased by 3.9%.

Average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (estimated) in April 2021 was 231319 tenge

The number of unemployed people determined by the ILO methodology for the I quarter of 2021 amounted to 451.3 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 April 2021 was 215thousand people or 2.3% of the labor force

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