Economy
Economy
The gross regional product for January-June 2024 amounted to $3.386 million in current prices. Compared with the corresponding period of 2023, GRP amounted to 101.7%.
The main branches of the economy
Industry
925 enterprises with a workforce of about 42 thousand people. Over 90% of the republic's iron ore production, 100% of iron ore pellets and asbestos. Products are exported to various countries
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Agriculture
The agro-industrial complex of the region is one of the main branches of the economy. 119 thousand people are employed in agriculture, or 25.2% of the total employed population. There are 7.6 thousand agricultural formations operating.
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Growth rates of economic sectors
Industry
(January-March 2024 to January-March 2023, %)
107.0
Building
(January-March 2024 to January-March 2023, %)
113.6
Transport
(January-March 2024 to January-March 2023, %)
105.3
Agriculture
(January-March 2024 to January-March 2023, %)
105.9
Trade
(January-March 2024 to January-March 2023, %)
109.5
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The region is rich in forests and ore. About 400 deposits of minerals and mineral raw materials have been explored, including 68 underground waters, 19 deposits of bauxite, 7 gold, one each of silver and nickel have been discovered. The subsoil of the region is rich in minerals: magnetite and oolitic iron ores, bauxite, brown coal, asbestos, refractory and brick clays, flux and cement limestone, glass sand, building stone, etc. The total reserve of magnetite ores and brown iron ores is 15.7 billion tons.
The mining industry produced goods worth 188.1 billion tenge (January-March 2023 - 161.1 billion tenge, an increase of 16.8%), the index of physical volume - 113.0%. Bauxite production increased by 34.1%, pellet production by 27.5%, and iron ore concentrate by 5.0%.
The manufacturing industry produced goods worth 446.5 billion tenge (January-March 2023 - 431.5 billion tenge, growth of 3.5%), IFV - 101.3%. The growth of the industry was achieved due to an increase in the production of mechanical engineering (IFV - 106.4%, 260.2 billion tenge, share in the industry - 58.3%), metallurgical production (IFV - 101.5%, 67.5 billion tenge, share in the industry - 15.1%). In the manufactured products, the production of passenger cars increased by 20.0%, the production of rolled steel by 16.6%.
In the structure of the region’s industry, the largest share falls on the manufacturing industry – 67.6%, the mining sector accounts for 28.5%, electricity supply – 3.2%, water supply – 0.7%.
Resource raw material base
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Type of raw material |
Field name |
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Iron |
Stepnoye, Aleshinskoye, Uyskoye, Kacharskoye, South Svetlodzharkulskoye, Nadezhdinskoye, East Kunayzharkulskoye, Davydovskoye, Kunayzharkulskoye, Kinebay-Kayskoye, Talkulskoye, Lomonosovskoye, Yuzhno-Sarbayskoye, etc. |
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Ilmenite-zircon placer |
Tobolsk, Alasorsk |
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Cobalt |
Alesha, Kacharsky, South Sarybaisk, Sarybaisk |
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Rare earth elements |
Akbulak |
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Aluminum |
Pokrovskoye, Varvarinskoye, Temirskoye, Ak-Aulskoye, Koktalskoye, Naurzumskoye, Townsorskoye, Batmankolskoye, Kamyshnoye, Belinskoye, Severo-Livanovskoye, South Livanovskoye, Mamyrkulskoye, etc. |
|
Lead |
Scheimerden |
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Silver |
Scheimerden, Zhitikarinskoe |
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Zinc |
Scheimerden |
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Bauxites |
Winter, East Kozyrev, East Ayat, Karabaital, Ayat, Priozern, West Ubagansk, Kushmurun, Koktalsky, Club, Kyzylzhar-Varvarinsky, North Lebanon, Krasnooktyabrsky, Belinsky, Pokrovsky, etc. |
|
Tungsten |
Drozhilovskoe |
|
Gold |
Varvarinskoye, South Tokhtarovskoye, Uvalnoye, Krasnoarmeyskoye, Sabitovskoye, Zhetygara, Zapadno-Dzhetygarinskoye, Komarovskoye, Leonidovskoye, Tokhtarovskoye, Manaydorskoye, Prokhorovskoye, Atygay, etc. |
|
Copper |
Kacharskoye (Southern and Northern section) |
|
Molybdenum |
Red Army, Drozhilov |
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Nickel |
Shevchenko |
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Apatite |
Kachar, Kirov, Ayat, Lisakov, Shielinskiy, |
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Asbestos |
Akzhal, Zhetygarinsky, Akkarginsky |
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Glauconite |
Glauconite |
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Magnetite |
Lomonosov, Sarybaisk, South Lomanosov, Yalta |
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Sulfur |
Alesha, Sokolov, Sarbaisk, South Saryba, Kacharsky |
The structure of industrial production of the Kostanay region by type of economic activity in January-September 2021
|
Kind of activity |
Volume of industrial production (goods, services), thousand tenge |
Share of activities in the regional volume of industrial production, in% |
|
Mining and quarrying |
373 438 886 |
|
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Metal ore mining |
335 697 110 | |
|
Manufacturing industry
|
446 586 987 |
|
|
Food Production |
141 092 119 | |
| Beverage production | 14 337 653 | |
|
Light industry |
2 194 838 |
|
|
Production of paper and paper products |
5 711 546 |
|
|
Chemical industry products |
2 515 291 |
|
|
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products |
4 420 832 |
|
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Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products |
15 265 134 |
|
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Metallurgical industry
|
96 242 941 |
|
| Iron and steel industry | 41 745 511 | |
| Production of basic precious and non-ferrous metals |
53 673 541 |
|
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Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment |
3 176 766 |
|
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Engineering |
162 374 972 |
|
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Furniture manufacture |
635 878 |
|
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Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning |
34 418 031 |
|
|
Water supply; sewer system, control over the collection and distribution of waste |
8 391 750 |
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Industry - total |
862 835 645 |
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Gross output of products (services) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in January-September 2019 amounted to 249561.3 million tenge or 66.2% compared to January-September 2018, of which agriculture - 248949.9 million tenge (66.1%).
The gross output of crop production amounted to 139835.4 million tenge (49.1%), livestock production - 107785.7 million tenge (102.3%).
Gross output of products (services) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the Kostanay region in January-September 2021 (million tenge)
|
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries |
out of him: |
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Agriculture |
out of him: |
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plant growing |
animal husbandry |
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|
249 561,3 |
248 949,9 |
139 835,4 (56,17%) |
107 785,7 (43,83%) |
