Small and medium-sized businesses, in numbers

   

 

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Press release

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October 29th  2026

 

 

Small and medium-sized businesses, in numbers

 

             Entrepreneurship is an independent, proactive activity of citizens, oralmans and legal entities, aimed at obtaining net income through the use of property, production, sale of goods, performance of work, provision of services, privately owned (private enterprise) either on the right of economic management of a state enterprise (state enterprise).

              Interaction between business entities and the state is aimed at creating favorable conditijns for the development of entrepreneurship and society, stimulation of entrepreneurial initiative in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

Indicators of development of small and medium-sized businesses

                                                                                                                                                                                                      as a percentage

 

As of April 1, 2026

January - March 2026 to

January-March 2025

Number of active entities

Number of employees

output

(in comparable prices)

Ridder c.a.

88,7

97,9

113,8

 

The main indicators of the activity of subjects in SMEs

 

 

Total

Including

Legal entities of small and medium-sized businesses

Individual entrepreneurs

Peasant and farm enterprises

 

Number of active SMEs as of April 1, 2026, units2)

   

Ridder c.a.

2 904

415

2 379

110

 

 

Humber of people employed in SMEs as of April 1, 2026

 

Ridder c.a.

9 649

4 818

4 578

253

 

 

Production by SMEs in January - March 2026, million tenge

 

Ridder c.a.

24 679

13 820

10 721

138

1) According to the Entrepreneurial Code of Republic Kazakhstan  of dated jktober29, 2015 โ„–375-V, for the purposes of state statistics, it is envisaged to use the criterion for classifying small and medium-sized as subjects only by the average annual number of employees

2)  in accordance with international practice, in order to apply uniform approaches to the formation of indicators on the number of smes and to exclude discrepancies with the  State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic Kazakhstan, starting from February 1, 2015 the indicator of the number of «active» subjects, instead of «active», is published.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 www.shygys.stat.gov.kz / Official statistical information/ «Enterprise statistics»

Executor:

Kapatayev S.K.

Phone. +7 (72336) 4-55-75

Head of Statistics, Ridder:

Kapatayev S.K.

Phone. +7 (72336) 4-55-75

The address:

071300, Ridder city,

Ch. Valikhanov street, 44

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Source: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/vko-ridder/documents/details/1093197?lang=en