Kazakhstan's fixed investment increased by 7.1% in Jan-July 2013
19:37, 14 August 2013
ASTANA. August 14. KAZINFORM For the period from January to July 2013, the volume of investments in fixed assets amounted to 2.8 trillion tenge, having increased by 7.1% in comparison with the same period last year, Chairman of the Statistics Agency Alikhan Smailov has said today at a press briefing, Kazinform refers to primeminister.kz.
"The volume of investment in fixed assets in January-July 2013 amounted to 2.8 trillion tenge, which is 7.1% more than in January-July 2012," he said.
He noted that the volume of industrial production in comparison with the same period of 2012 increased by 1.9% to 10.2 trillion in current prices.
For example, production in the mining sector increased by 2.6%, processing industry - by 1.3, in electricity, gas, steam supply and air conditioning - by 0.8%.
The volume of gross output of agriculture also increased to 681.1 billion tenge.
The volume index in the transport industry was 107.2% in January-July 2013.