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				Kazakstan
	Population: 16.9 million (July 1997)		Area: 2.7 mill. sq. km.			Capital: Akmola
	Other cities: Almaty		Language: Kazak, Russian			Religions: Muslim, Russian Orthodox, Protestant

Economy and Economic Data
	GDP per capita: $2,880 (1996 est.) Currency: tenge, 76.4 tenge =$1 (February 1998) Average wage: Major industries: oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, chromite, lead, zinc, copper, titanium, bauxite, gold, silver, phosphates, sulfur, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, agricultural machinery, electric motors, construction materials Agriculture: grains (spring wheat), cotton, wool, meat Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, manganese, chrome ore, nickel, cobalt, copper, lead, bauxite, zinc, gold, uranium Government Head of State: President Nursultan Nazarbayev (elected December 1991, unopposed) Prime Minister: Akezhan Kazhegeldin (since October 1994) Parliament: bicameral; Senate (47 seats, 7 appointed by president, others popularly elected); Majilis (67 seats popularly elected) Elections: Last held December 1995, next elections due 1999

Treaties and Agreements in Force

European Union: no

OECD: no

World Bank: yes

IMF: yes

EBRD: yes

World Trade Organization: (applicant)

World Health Organization: yes

Most-Favored-Nation status with United States: yes

International environmental agreements: Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ship Pollution. Signed but not ratified: Desertification

Recent Policy Develoments in Kazakstan

Articles related to Kazakstan in the East/West Letter

• “Kazakstan moving on large-scale privatization” [brief] in E/W Letter, Jan/Feb, 1998.
• Selected Economic Data for Kazakstan in E/W Letter, Jan/Feb, 1998.
• “Kazakstan moves capital to Arctic, err...Akmola” [brief] in E/W Letter, Nov/Dec, 1997.
• “Oil, Oil Everywhere...: Kazak President Appoints Ally as Premier” by Lynda Maillet in E/W Letter, Sep/Oct, 1997.
• “Kazakstan limits price increases” [brief] in E/W Letter, Jan/Feb, 1997.
• “Privatization in the Former Soviet Republics: So Many Vouchers, So Little Time” by Lynda Maillet in E/W Letter, May/June 1994

Links to other Kazakstan-related web sites

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