BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 16. Kazakhstan’s industrial sector's output value amounted to 3.65 trillion Kazakh tenge ($8.22 billion) in January 2023, Trend reports, citing the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of Kazakhstan.
The major share accounted for the mining industry ( 51.5 percent of the total output) and equaled 1.88 trillion Kazakh tenge ($4.23 billion), while the manufacturing industry’s share reached 40.3 percent (an equivalent of 1.47 trillion Kazakh tenge or $3.31 billion).
In comparison, industrial output value for January 2022 amounted to 3.43 trillion Kazakh tenge ($7.73 billion). The share of the mining industry reached 1.83 trillion Kazakh tenge ($4.12 billion) - 53 percent of the total share. Manufacturing industry output totaled 1.33 trillion Kazakh tenge ($2.99 billion), or 39 percent.
Among the main industrial sector categories, 4.5 percent growth was achieved for electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air conditioning.
A high level of growth was also registered in food production (9.8 percent), beverages (33.2 percent), tobacco production (21.3 percent), textile (25.5 percent), chemical production (10.6 percent), pharmaceutical industry (51 percent), and car production (27.5 percent).
The industrial output growth rate increased in 14 regions of Kazakhstan, while 6 regions/cities (Aktobe, West Kazakhstan, Karaganda, Kostanay, East Kazakhstan, and Astana city) recorded decline.