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Press release |
№ 10 October 29th 2026 |
Small and medium-sized businesses, in numbers
Entrepreneurship is an independent, proactive activity of citizens, oralmans and legal entities, aimed at obtaining net income through the use of property, production, sale of goods, performance of work, provision of services, privately owned (private enterprise) either on the right of economic management of a state enterprise (state enterprise).
Interaction between business entities and the state is aimed at creating favorable conditijns for the development of entrepreneurship and society, stimulation of entrepreneurial initiative in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Indicators of development of small and medium-sized businesses
as a percentage
As of April 1, 2026 |
January - March 2026 to January-March 2025 | ||
Number of active entities |
Number of employees |
output (in comparable prices) | |
Ridder c.a. |
88,7 |
97,9 |
113,8 |
The main indicators of the activity of subjects in SMEs
Total |
Including | |||
Legal entities of small and medium-sized businesses |
Individual entrepreneurs |
Peasant and farm enterprises | ||
|
Number of active SMEs as of April 1, 2026, units2) | ||||
Ridder c.a. |
2 904 |
415 |
2 379 |
110 |
|
Humberof people employed in SMEs as of April 1, 2026 | ||||
Ridder c.a. |
9 649 |
4 818 |
4 578 |
253 |
|
Production by SMEs in January - March 2026, million tenge | ||||
Ridder c.a. |
24 679 |
13 820 |
10 721 |
138 |
1)According to the Entrepreneurial Code of Republic Kazakhstan of dated jktober29, 2015 №375-V, for the purposes of state statistics, it is envisaged to use the criterion for classifying small and medium-sized as subjects only by the average annual number of employees
2)in accordance with international practice, in order to apply uniform approaches to the formation of indicators on the number of smes and to exclude discrepancies with the State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic Kazakhstan, starting from February 1, 2015 the indicator of the number of «active» subjects, instead of «active», is published.
www.shygys.stat.gov.kz / Official statistical information/ «Enterprise statistics»
Executor: Kapatayev S.K. Phone. +7 (72336) 4-55-75 |
Head of Statistics, Ridder: Kapatayev S.K. Phone. +7 (72336) 4-55-75 |
The address: 071300, Ridder city, Ch. Valikhanov street, 44 |
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