The population of the Kostanay region as of May 1, 2025 amounted to 824.5 thousand people, including 522.4 thousand people (63.4%) – urban, 302.1 thousand people (36.6%) – rural residents.
The natural increase in the population in January-April 2025 amounted to 151 people (in the corresponding period of the previous year – 312 people).
The number of births as January-April 2025 amounted to 2674 people (14.5% less than in January-April 2024), the number of deaths amounted to 2523 people (10.3% less than in January-April 2024).
The balance of migration is negative and amounted to 1238 people (in January-April 2024 – -1609 people), including in external migration – 103 people (119 people), in internal migration – -1341 people (-1728 people).
The number of unemployed in the I quarter of 2025 amounted to 20806 people.
The unemployment rate was 4.6% of the labor force.
The number of persons registered with employment agencies as unemployed as of June 1, 2025 amounted to 9943 people or 2.2% of the labor force.
The average monthly nominal wages accrued to employees (excluding small enterprises engaged in entrepreneurial activities) in the I quarter of 2025 amounted to 358873 tenge, an increase compared to the I quarter of 2024 amounted to 14.6%.
The real wage index in I quarter 2025 was 105.5%.
In the IV quarter of 2024 the average per capita nominal cash income of the population of the region, according to the estimate, amounted to 217438 tenge, which is 10.6% higher than in IV quarter 2023, the index of real monetary income for the specified period is 102.8%.
The volume of industrial production in January-May 2025 amounted to 1251896 million tenge in current prices, which is 2.4% less than in in January-May 2024.
In the mining and mine workings industry, production volumes increased by 3.5%. In the manufacturing industry the decrease in production amounted to 4.1%, in the supply of electricity, gas, steam, hot water and air conditioned – by 0.6%, in water supply; sanitation; waste collection, treatment and disposal, pollution elimination activities – by 10%.
The volume of gross output of agricultural products (services) in January-May 2025 amounted to 70348.1 million tenge or 104.8% by January-May 2024.
The volume of cargo turnover in January-May 2025 amounted to 11770.4 million t-km (taking into account the assessment of the volume of cargo turnover of individual entrepreneurs engaged in commercial transportation), or 110.8% compared to January-May 2024.
The volume of passenger traffic – 443.5 million p-km, or 60% by January-May 2024.
The volume of construction works (services) amounted to 75452.4 million tenge or 157.8% compared to January-May 2024.
In January-May 2025, the total area of housing put into operation increased by 2.5% and amounted to 179.5 thousand square meters, of which in multi-apartment buildings – by 13.5% (140 thousand square meters). At the same time, the total area of individual residential buildings put into operation decreased by 22.6% (39.3 thousand square meters).
The volume of investments in fixed capital in January-May 2025 amounted to 214958.2 million tenge or 115.4% by January-May 2024.
The number of registered legal entities as of June 1, 2025 amounted to 14726 units and decreased by 0.8% compared to the corresponding date of the previous year, including 14346 units with less than 100 employees. The number of operating legal entities amounted to 12750 units, including 12373 units - small businesses.
The number of registered small and medium enterprises (legal entities) in the region amounted to 11406 units and decreased by 1% compared to the corresponding date of the previous year.
The volume of gross regional product for January-December 2024 amounted to 4927641.3 million tenge at current prices. Compared to the corresponding period of 2023, real GRP increased by 106.7%. In the structure of GRP, the share of production of goods amounted to 50.8%, services – 47.8%.
The consumer price index in May 2025 compared to December 2024 was 105.8%.
Prices for food products increased by 6.7%, non-food products – by 3.7%, paid services for the population – by 7.1%.
The prices of enterprises producing industrial products in May 2025 compared to December 2024 increased by 3.4
The volume of retail trade in January-May 2025 amounted to 239251.6 million tenge, or 2.3% more than the corresponding period in 2024.
The volume of wholesale trade in January-May 2025 amounted to 392009 million tenge, or 121.2% compared to the corresponding period in 2024.
According to preliminary data, in January-April 2025, mutual trade with the EAEU countries amounted to 425.8 million US dollars and decreased by 18.8% compared to January-April 2024, including exports – 152.8 million US dollars (by 24.2% less), imports – 273 million US dollars (15.4% less).
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