OREANDA-NEWS. August 05, 2008. Kazakhstan’s Government at an extended session tallied results of the economy performance in H1 2008, reported the Official website http://en.government.kz.

Production output growth has been seen in all sectors except for processing industries.
GDP growth for January – June 2008 made up 5.1% year-on-year.
Industrial production output grew by 3.8% y-o-y.

Gross agricultural production output augmented by 4.2%.

Capital investments grew by 12.4 %.

Construction services’ growth made up 10.7 %.

In January-May, monthly average nominal wage stood at KZT 56686, 17.3 % up as compared to the like period of 2007. Monthly average wage in real terms fell by 1.4% y-o-y.

Unemployment rate in Q2 made up 6.6 % (while the figure for Q1 2007 stood at 7.3 %).