Kyrgyzstan GDP Soars 11.5% but Economy Still in Crisis

2025-08-15 08:39 By Dongting Liu 1 min. read

Kyrgyzstan’s GDP expanded 11.5% year-on-year in January–July 2025, edging up from a downwardly revised 11.4% in the first half and outpacing the 8.1% growth recorded a year earlier.

Industrial output climbed 11.3% from a year ago, led by strong gains in pharmaceutical goods (including beverages) and tobacco (+49.0%), rubber, plastics and building materials (+33.5%), wood, paper and printing products (+30.6%), chemical products (+29.3%) and mineral extraction (+14.6%).

Construction jumped 37.8%, wholesale and retail trade grew 13.2%, and agriculture rose 2.3%.

Despite strong headline GDP growth, Kyrgyzstan’s economy remains in crisis, weighed down by a 26.3% drop in exports, a 9.4% decline in imports, and growth concentrated in a few sectors, while consumer prices and tariffs jumped 4.7%, with food prices spiking for fruits (30.8%) and potatoes (28.6%).



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