ALMATY, June 4 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges:
* updated today
CURRENCY/INTEREST RATE
LATEST PREVIOUS
*tenge/dollar 150.24 150.279
Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 9.50 10.00
MONEY
Monetary base(trln tenge) April 30 2.19 March 31 2.25
Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)
April 30 18.84 March 31 18.84
National fund ($bln) April 30 22.00 March 31 22.00
Money supply(M3) (trln tenge) April 30 6.56 March 31 6.97
QUARTERLY DATA
Jan-Mar'09 Jan-Dec'08 Jan-Sept'08 Jan-Dec'07
GDP (trln tenge) 3.046 15.907 11.614 12.567
GDP (pct) -2.2 +3.2 +3.9 +8.9
MONTHLY DATA
PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO
MONTH
Industrial output (pct) Jan-April -4.8 -4.6 +3.5
Inflation (pct) May +0.7 +0.8 +1.0
Unemployment (pct) March 7.0 --- 6.8
Oil production (mln T) April 6.2 6.2 5.9
Copper output ('000 T) April 25.9 25.3 29.4
Zinc output ('000 T) April 26.2 28.3 30.2
Oil production (mln T) Jan-April 24.4 --- 23.7
Copper output ('000 T) Jan-April 106.9 --- 117.8
Zinc output ('000 T) Jan-April 113.4 --- 122.3
Inflation (pct) Jan-April +3.5 +2.8 +4.5
Trade balance ($bln) Jan-March +2.0 --- +8.7
Exports ($bln) Jan-March 5.3 --- 10.3
Imports ($bln) Jan-March 3.8 --- 4.6
FORECASTS FOR 2009
GDP growth (pct) 1.0
Annual inflation (pct) 11.0
Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) 573.6/-3.4
Budget revenues (bln tenge) 1.529
Budget spending (bln tenge) 3.411
Industrial output (pct) 2.0
Oil output (mln T) 76-79
Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)* n/a
Unemployment (pct) 8.0
ANNUAL COMPARISONS
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
GDP 3.2 +8.9 +10.7 +9.7 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8 +13.5
Ind output (pct)
+2.1 +4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8 +13.5
Inflation (pct)
+9.5 +18.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6 +6.4
Yr-end M3 (trln tenge)
6.27 4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77 0.57
Yr end unemployment (pct)
6.7 7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3 10.4
Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)
15.6 20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9 15.9
Oil output (mln T)
70.7 67.1 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2 40.1
Copper output ('000 T)
398.0 405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0 421.8
Note: Oil output includes gas condensate
KAZAKHSTAN'S LONG-TERM RATINGS
S&P (April 30, 2008) BBB- negative outlook
Moody's (June 9, 2006) Baa2 stable outlook
Fitch (Nov 10, 2008) BBB- negative outlook
(State Statistics Agency website www.stat.kz,
Stock Exchange www.kase.kz/eng/
Central Bank www.nationalbank.kz/?switch=eng) Keywords: KAZAKHSTAN INDICATORS/
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