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Economy overview
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Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia, possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves as well as plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals. It also is a large agricultural - livestock and grain - producer. Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources and also on a growing machine-building sector specializing in construction equipment, tractors, agricultural machinery, and some defense items. The breakup of the USSR in December 1991 and the collapse in demand for Kazakhstan's traditional heavy industry products resulted in a short-term contraction of the economy, with the steepest annual decline occurring in 1994. In 1995-97, the pace of the government program of economic reform and privatization quickened, resulting in a substantial shifting of assets into the private sector. Kazakhstan enjoyed double-digit growth in 2000-01 - and a solid 9.5% in 2002 - thanks largely to its booming energy sector, but also to economic reform, good harvests, and foreign investment. The opening of the Caspian Consortium pipeline in 2001, from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz oilfield to the Black Sea, substantially raised export capacity. The country has embarked upon an industrial policy designed to diversify the economy away from overdependence on the oil sector, by developing light industry. Additionally, the policy aims to reduce the influence of foreign investment and foreign personnel; the government has engaged in several disputes with foreign oil companies over the terms of production agreements, and tensions continue.
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GDP
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purchasing power parity - $105.5 billion (2004 est.)
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GDP - real growth rate
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9.2% (2004 est.)
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GDP - per capita
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purchasing power parity - $6,300 (2004 est.)
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GDP - composition by sector
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agriculture: 7.7%
industry: 37.7%
services: 54.6% (2004 est.)
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Investment gross fixed
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23.9% of GDP (2004 est.)
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Population below poverty line
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26% (2001 est.)
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Household income or consumption by percentage share
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lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 27.3% (2001)
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Distribution of family income - Gini index
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35.4 (1996)
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Inflation rate consumer prices
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6.6% (2004 est.)
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Labor force
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7.634 million (2004 est.)
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Labor force by occupation
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agriculture 20%, industry 30%, services 50% (2002 est.)
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Unemployment rate
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8.8% (2004 est.)
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Budget
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revenues: $6.729 billion
expenditures: $6.999 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2004 est.)
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Public debt
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15.5% of GDP (2004 est.)
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Agriculture products
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grain (mostly spring wheat), cotton; livestock
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Industries
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oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, chromite, lead, zinc, copper, titanium, bauxite, gold, silver, phosphates, sulfur, iron and steel; tractors and other agricultural machinery, electric motors, construction materials
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Industrial production growth rate
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8.8% (2004 est.)
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Electricity production
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52.43 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity production by source
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fossil fuel: 84.3%
hydro: 15.7%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
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Electricity consumption
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48.36 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity exports
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3.6 billion kWh (2001)
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Electricity imports
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3.2 billion kWh (2001)
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Oil production
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798,200 bbl/day (2004 est.)
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Oil consumption
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195,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
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Oil exports
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NA (2001)
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Oil imports
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NA (2001)
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Oil proved reserves
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2.709 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
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Natural gas production
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10.08 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas consumption
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14.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas exports
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4.1 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas imports
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8.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)
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Natural gas proved reserves
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920.3 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
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Current account balance
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$-68.8 million (2004 est.)
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Exports
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$12.72 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
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Exports commodities
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oil and oil products 58%, ferrous metals 24%, chemicals 5%, machinery 3%, grain, wool, meat, coal (2001)
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Exports partners
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Bermuda 17%, Russia 15.2%, Switzerland 13%, China 12.8%, Italy 7.8% (2003)
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Imports
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$8.621 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
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Imports commodities
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machinery and equipment 41%, metal products 28%, foodstuffs 8% (2001)
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Imports partners
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Russia 39%, Germany 8.7%, China 6.2%, US 5.6% (2003)
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Reserves of foreign exchange gold
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$4.962 billion (2004 est.)
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Debt external
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$24.45 billion (2004 est.)
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Economic aid recipient
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$610 million in US assistance programs, 1992-2000 (2000)
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Currency
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tenge (KZT)
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Currency code
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KZT
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Exchange rates
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tenge per US dollar - 149.576 (2003), 153.279 (2002), 146.736 (2001), 142.133 (2000), 119.523 (1999)
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Fiscal year
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calendar year
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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.
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