ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 6. Approximately 804.4 billion tenge (about $1.74 billion) of investments were attracted to the economy of the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan from January through October 2023, said the head of the region Askhat Shakharov, Trend reports.
This figure exceeds the same period last year by 8.2 percent.
The majority of investments are private: 725.5 billion tenge (about $1.57 billion). Of this, 62.6 billion tenge (about $134.5 million) were invested in the manufacturing industry, and 145.6 billion tenge (about $315 million) in the mining of metal ores.
Furthermore, it is planned to launch 19 large projects worth 57.2 billion tenge (about $123.7 million) in 2023.
In addition, Shakharov noted that a project for the construction of sewage treatment facilities will be implemented in the region.
The cost of the project is 53.5 billion tenge (about $115.7 million), and funds are planned to be borrowed from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
At the end of 2022, the gross inflow of foreign direct investment into Kazakhstan amounted to $28 billion, which is 17.7 percent more than the results of 2021 ($23.8 billion). This is a record figure over the past 10 years; in 2012, the volume of FDI reached $28.9 billion.
The leaders in terms of investment in the republic were the Netherlands: $8.33 billion (an increase of 19.7 percent), the US: $5.1 billion (+81.9 percent), Switzerland: $2.8 billion (+2.4 percent), Belgium: $1.56 billion (+46 percent), Russia: $1.52 billion (-19.7 percent), South Korea: $1.48 billion (+84.8 percent), China: $1.43 billion (-22.5 percent), France: $770.2 million (+27.4 percent), the UK: $661 million (-35.7 percent), and Germany: $469.5 million (+45.4 percent).
