Statistics committee posts CIS first-half industrial output figures

Statistics committee posts CIS first-half industrial output figures

Interfax news agency
9 Aug 05

MOSCOW

The highest growth in industrial output among the CIS countries in the
first half of 2005 by comparison with the same period in 2004 was
recorded in Azerbaijan where it was 20.1 per cent. This information
was made available today by the CIS Interstate Statistics Committee.

Industrial output went up 12.8 per cent in Georgia on the first-half
figure for 2004, 10.5 per cent in Belarus, 8.9 per cent in Tajikistan,
7.0 per cent in Kazakhstan, 5.3 per cent in Armenia, 5.0 per cent in
Ukraine and 4.6 per cent in Moldova.

In Russia industrial output went up 4.0 per cent year-on-year in the
first six months.

Industrial output declined by 9.8 per cent in Kyrgyzstan. The CIS
statistics committee has no figures for Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.

Average industrial production growth for the CIS in the first half of
the year was 5.0 per cent (in the same period last year it was 9 per
cent). GDP also went up 5.0 per cent on average across the CIS in the
first six months.

GDP in the first six months went up 16.5 per cent in Azerbaijan, 10.2
per cent in Armenia, 8.9 per cent in Belarus, 8.1 per cent in
Tajikistan, 6.8 per cent in Georgia, 4.0 per cent in Ukraine and 2.4
per cent in Kyrgyzstan.

Goods and services for the basic types of economic activity showed a
5.1-per-cent rise in Russia in the first half of the year.