Economy
Economy
The gross regional product for January-June 2024 amounted to $2075.04 million in current prices. Compared with January-June 2023, real GRP increased by 7.5%.
The main branches of the economy
Industry
In animal husbandry, promising areas for investment are:
- development of dairy and cattle beef breeding;
- development of meat poultry farming;
- construction of meat processing complexes;
- development of maral breeding and beekeeping;
- development of irrigated lands (growing forage crops)
The main direction of agriculture is crop production, which accounts for 55% of the total gross output, while livestock farming accounts for 45%.
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Agriculture
Produces 20% of the total oilseeds in Kazakhstan
Sown area over 10 years increased by 23.5%
The diversified nature of animal husbandry: dairy and beef cattle breeding, fine-fleece and coarse-wool sheep breeding, pig breeding, horse breeding, poultry farming, deer breeding and reindeer husbandry, beekeeping, camel breeding
The leading positions in the republic in the production of milk, oilseeds of sunflower, honey and antlers (1 place), in the production of meat and potatoes - 3 place.
45%
Tourism
There are 3 sanatoriums, 19 antler treatment centers, 4 ski resorts, 84 hotels, 241 recreation centers in the region.
Ecological tourism: There are 24 nature conservation zones of national importance in the region, the area of which is more than 1,723,072 hectares. The largest among them are: Katon-Karagay State National Nature Park, Markakol Nature Reserve, Western Altai Nature Reserve.
Ski tourism: The East Kazakhstan region has the longest duration of snow cover in Kazakhstan. The region has 4 ski resorts with more than 20 ski slopes with a total length of 30-40 km, with an altitude difference of up to 1,500 m, and a length of slopes of up to 5 km.
Health and wellness tourism: There are 19 antler treatment centers in East Kazakhstan, most of which are concentrated in the Katon-Karagay district. The region is a leader in this area, the population of marals and deer in the region is more than 8 thousand heads.
Cultural and educational tourism: The territory of Eastern Kazakhstan is the center of the origin of the Turkic civilization. There are more than 300 historical monuments in the region.
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Growth rates of economic sectors
Industry
(January-October 2024 to January-October 2023, %)
103,1
Building
(January-October 2024 to January-October 2023, %)
120,0
Transport
(January-October 2024 to January-October 2023, %)
91,9
Agriculture
(January-October 2024 to January-October 2023, %)
109,3
Trade
(January-October 2024 to January-October 2023, %)
103,4
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The main advantage of the region is:
- the presence of unique deposits of polymetallic ores containing non-ferrous metals;
- the presence of developed production potential, including the extraction of non-ferrous metal ores, the production of basic precious and non-ferrous metals;
- in terms of non-resource exports, the region ranks 6th among the regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan based on the results of 2022
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high level of innovation activity of 8.8% (12th place in the Republic of Kazakhstan), the number of innovation-active enterprises is 114 enterprises.
Over the past ten years, nine new deposits of gold, rare metals, copper and iron have been explored, and ore reserves have been determined.
The volume of industrial production in January-October 2024 amounted to 2,098,262.6 million tenge in current prices, which is 3.1% more than in January-October 2023. In the mining industry, production volumes increased by 9.1%, in the manufacturing industry - by 1.3%, in the supply of electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air conditioning, an increase of 9.4% was noted. In water supply; sanitation; collection, processing and disposal of waste, pollution elimination activities, the decrease in production was 9.5%.
In the region, the main share of industry is metallurgy - 62.7%. The main enterprises of the metallurgical industry are Kazzinc LLP, Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC, Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium and Magnesium Plant JSC.
The volume of gross output of agricultural products (services) in January-October 2024 amounted to 692,889.22 US dollars, or 109.3% of January-October 2023.
The volume of freight turnover in January-October 2024 amounted to 5656.7 million tkm (taking into account the estimate of the volume of freight turnover of individual entrepreneurs engaged in commercial transportation), or 89.4% of January-October 2023.
Industrial production in value terms
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previous month |
reporting month |
reporting period |
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East Kazakhstan Region |
130 |
225 165 185 |
205 078 164 |
2 098 262 600 |
86.6 |
85.1 |
103.1 |
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incl. by district: |
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Ust-Kamenogorsk city |
59 |
181 267 712 |
153 306 087 |
1 629 428 036 |
80.3 |
73.6 |
101.4 |
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Ridder G.A. |
13 |
13 868 395 |
14 763 343 |
143 630 739 |
89.5 |
97.7 |
108.1 |
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Glubokovsky district |
23 |
7 743 547 |
10 544 195 |
92 820 251 |
131.1 |
95.9 |
115.1 |
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Zaisansky district |
1 |
623 793 |
651 237 |
5 992 297 |
104.3 |
78.1 |
95.2 |
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Altai region |
11 |
3 398 048 |
3 406 377 |
30 538 242 |
103.9 |
125.5 |
107.9 |
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Kurchumsky district |
2 |
181 577 |
206 584 |
3 084 140 |
131.9 |
107.3 |
78.0 |
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Katon-Karagai district** |
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... |
... |
... |
... |
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Markakol district |
2 |
1 447 314 |
1 726 190 |
12 242 189 |
102.2 |
111.1 |
120.3 |
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Samar district |
5 |
602 270 |
429 396 |
6 233 442 |
57.5 |
957.6 |
134.7 |
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Tarbagatai district |
1 |
357 187 |
363 590 |
2 971 068 |
101.5 |
74.9 |
76.8 |
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Ulansky district |
5 |
5 642 150 |
5 670 913 |
55 487 736 |
100.7 |
102.6 |
106.9 |
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Ulken Naryn district** |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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Shemonaikha district |
6 |
9 138 931 |
13 563 307 |
109 441 564 |
125.2 |
99.6 |
100.6 |
