Kazakhstan Producer Inflation at 2022-Highs

2026-05-06 09:29 By Larissa Caser 1 min. read

Kazakhstan's annual producer inflation accelerated to 11.1% in April 2026, up from 7.5% in March.

This marks the highest level since October 2022, as prices rebounded strongly for mining and quarrying (10.1% versus -3.4%), particularly crude oil production prices (10.6% versus -11.9%).

Additionally, inflation accelerated for water supply, sanitation, waste collection, treatment and disposal and pollution control activities (7.3% versus 5.2%) and edged up for supply of electricity, gas, steam, hot water, and air conditioning (9.6% versus 9.2%).

On the other hand, price growth in the manufacturing sector eased to 13.2% from 18.0%.

On a monthly basis, producer prices increased by 4.2%, accelerating from a 1.3% rise in March.



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Kazakhstan Producer Inflation at 2022-Highs
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