Annex A. Country factsheets

Annex Table 1. Key indicators: Kazakhstan

Country profile

Population, 2016

17.8 mn

Surface area, 2016

2724.9 thsd. km2

GDP (USD, current price), 2016

133.66 bn

GDP per capita (USD, current price), 2016

7,510

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

1%

Inflation (average consumer price, y-o-y change), 2016

14.6%

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2016

32.6%

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2016

29.2%

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2015

3.6%

General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP), 2016

-4.37%

Unemployment (% of total labour force), 2016

5.04%

Remittances (% of GDP), 2016

0.2 %

Source: World Bank (2017), World Development Indicators, database, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator, (accessed 14 August 2017); IMF (2017), World Economic Outlook Database https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx (accessed 14 August 2017).

Annex Table 2. Key indicators: Kyrgyzstan

Country profile

Population, 2016

6.08 million

Surface area, 2016

199 949 km2

GDP (USD, current prices), 2016

6.55 billion

GDP per capita, (USD, current prices), 2016

1 077

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

3.8%

Inflation (average consumer prices, y-o-y change), 2016

0.4%

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2015

37.3%

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2015

73.5%

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2015

17.1%

General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP), 2016

-4.5%

Unemployment (% of total labour force), 2015

7.6%

Remittances (% of GDP), 2016

30.5%

Source: World Bank (2017), World Development Indicators, database, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator, (accessed 14 August 2017); IMF (2017), World Economic Outlook Database https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx (accessed 14 August 2017).

Annex Table 3. Key indicators: Mongolia

Country profile

Population, 2016

3.03 million

Surface area, 2016

1,564.1 thsd. km2

GDP (USD, current prices) 2016

11.16 billion

GDP per capita (USD, current price), 2016

3,856.8

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

+1.0%

Inflation (average consumer prices, y-o-y change), 2016

0.6%

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2016

50.8%

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2016

46.8%

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2015

0.8%

General government net lending/borrowing, percentage of GDP, 2016

-17.05%

Unemployment (% of total labour force), 2016

10%

Remittances (% of GDP), 2016

2.4%

Source National Statistical Institute of Mongolia official website, www.1212.mn (accessed 14 August 2017); World Economic Indicators, World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator (accessed 14 August 2017); IMF (2017), World Economic Outlook Database https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx (accessed 14 August 2017).

Annex Table 4. Key indicators: Tajikistan

Country profile

Population, 2016

8.7 mn

Surface area, 2016

142 550 km2

GDP (USD, current price), 2016

6.9 bn

GDP per capita (USD, current price), 2016

804

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

6.9%

Inflation (average consumer price, y-o-y change), 2016

6.1%

Exports of goods and services (USD), 2016

961 mn

Imports of goods and services (USD), 2016

4 bn

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2016

5.4%

General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP), 2015

-1.87%

Unemployment (% of total labour force) 2017

10.8%

Remittances (% of GDP), 2016

26.9%

Source: ADB (2017), Asian Development Outlook 2017; NBT (2017), Survey on Saving Behaviour; IMF (2017), World Economic Outlook, April 2017; United Nations (2017), International Migrant Stock 2015; (Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, 2016).

Annex Table 5. Key indicators: Turkmenistan

Country profile

Population, 2016

5.7 mn

Surface area, 2016

488,100 km2

GDP (USD, current price), 2016

36.2 bn

GDP per capita (USD, current price), 2016

6,389.3

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

6.2%

Inflation (average consumer price, y-o-y change), 2015

7.4%

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2012

73.3%

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2012

44.4%

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2015

11.9%

General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP), 2015

-0.693%

Unemployment (% of total labour force), 2015

8.6%

Note: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s estimation of the inflation rate in Turkmenistan is 16% in 2015 and 11% in 2016, while the IMF indicates a price increase of 7.4% in 2015 and 3.5% in 2016.

Source: World Economic Indicators, World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator (accessed 14 August 2017); IMF (2017), World Economic Outlook Database https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx (accessed 14 August 2017). The Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Report, Turkmenistan (accessed 7 August 2017).

Annex Table 6. Key indicators: Uzbekistan

Country profile

Population, 2016

31.8 million

Surface area

447 400 km2

GDP (USD, current prices), 2016

67.2 billion

GDP per capita, (USD, current prices), 2015

2 132

Real GDP growth (y-o-y change), 2016

7.8%

Inflation (average consumer prices, y-o-y change), 2016

8.4%

Exports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2015

20.7%

Imports of goods and services (% of GDP), 2015

22.2%

FDI, net inflows (% of GDP), 2015

1.6%

General government net lending/borrowing (% of GDP), 2014

2.2%

Unemployment (% of total labour force), 2016

8.9%

Remittances (% of GDP), 2016

3.4%

Source: World Bank (2017), World Development Indicators, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator; IMF (2016a), World Economic Outlook, April 2016, www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2016/01/; ADB (2017), Asian Development Outlook 2017, http://www.adb.org/publications/asian-development-outlook-2017-middle-income-challenge.