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 119.87 119.80

Cbank refinancing rate (pct) 10.50 11.00

MONEY

Monetary base(trln tenge) Oct 31 1.57 Sept 30 1.69

Cbank gold/forex reserves ($bln)

Oct 31 21.02 Oct 15 20.97

National fund ($bln) Oct 31 26.33 Oct 15 27.42

Money supply(M3) (trln tenge)July 1 5.20 June 1 5.11

QUARTERLY DATA

Jan-June’08 Jan-March’08 Jan-June’07

GDP (trln tenge) 6.949 3.144 5.495

GDP (pct) +5.4 +6.0 +10.2

MONTHLY DATA

PERIOD CURRENT PREVIOUS YEAR-AGO

MONTH

Industrial output (pct) Sept +0.8 +5.5 -1.8

Inflation (pct) Oct +0.6 +0.6 +4.4

Unemployment (pct) Sept 6.4 6.3 7.1

Oil production (mnl T) Sept 5.5 5.6 5.5

Copper output (’000 T) Sept 41.4 36.4 27.5

Zinc output (’000 T) Sept 28.9 29.9 26.7

Copper output (’000 T) Jan-Sept 294.3 — 297.2

Oil production (mln T) Jan-Sept 52.4 — 50.1

Zinc output (’000 T) Jan-Sept 273.2 — 266.3

Inflation (pct) Jan-Oct +8.8 — +13.4

Industrial output (pct) Jan-Sept +3.0 — +4.7

Trade balance ($bln) Jan-Aug +25.05 — +8.59

Exports ($bln) Jan-Aug 49.59 — 29.38

Imports ($bln) Jan-Aug 24.55 — 20.79

FORECASTS FOR 2008

GDP (pct) 5.0

Annual inflation (pct)* 10.0

Annual inflation (pct)** 9.9

Budget deficit (bln tenge/pct GDP) -334.4/2.1

Budget revenues (bln tenge) 2.729

Budget spending (bln tenge) 3.064

Industrial output (pct) 9.6

Oil output (mln T) 67-70

Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight) 15.1

* - government

** - National Bank

ANNUAL COMPARISONS

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

GDP +8.7 +10.7 +9.7 +9.6 +9.3 +9.8 +13.5 +9.8

Ind output (pct)

+4.5 7.0 +4.6 10.1 +8.8 +9.8 +13.5 +14.6

Inflation (pct)

+10.8 +8.6 +7.6 +6.7 +6.8 +6.6 +6.4 +9.8

Yr-end M3 (trln tenge)

4.61 3.72 2.07 1.64 1.00 0.77 0.57 0.40

Yr end unemployment (pct)

7.3 7.8 8.2 8.4 8.8 9.3 10.4 12.8

Grain harvest (mln T, clean weight)

20.1 16.5 13.8 12.4 14.8 15.9 15.9 11.6

Oil output (mln T)

67.5 65.0 61.9 59.4 51.5 47.2 40.1 35.3

Copper output (’000 T)

405.8 427.5 418.8 445.2 432.5 453.0 421.8 394.7

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 (Dec 17, 2007) BBB negative outlook

Source: http://www.afxnews.com

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