For this OECD Review of the National Statistical System of Kazakhstan, the OECD is indebted to the government of Kazakhstan for its co-operation in providing information and for organising the evaluation missions in November 2024 and November 2025. Particular thanks are due to the Bureau of National Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan (BNS), which co-ordinated the review on the Kazakh side under the leadership of Mr. Zhandos Shaimardanov and Mr. Maxat Turlubayev, Directors-General of the BNS, and provided valuable information for this analysis. We are also grateful to officials and experts from the other ministries and from the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan for their contributions to the review process.
The three-year review process was co-ordinated by Julien Dupont from the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate, under the strategic guidance of Monica Brezzi, Deputy-Director of the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate. The authors of this report are Julien Dupont and Adrian Zerbe (OECD Statistics and Data Directorate) for the legal and institutional framework for official statistics; Nora Bohossian (OECD Statistics and Data Directorate) for statistical and data infrastructure; Jorrit Zwijnenburg and Bram Edens (OECD Statistics and Data Directorate) for national accounts; Roberto Astolfi and Santaro Sakata (OECD Statistics and Data Directorate) for environmental-economic accounts; David Brackfield (OECD Statistics and Data Directorate) for structural and demographic business statistics, international merchandise trade statistics and trade by enterprise characteristics statistics, international trade in services and balance of payments statistics, short-term economic statistics and short-term financial statistics, and business tendency and consumer opinion surveys; Adrian Zerbe for his contributions on price statistics; Steven Vale (OECD consultant) for labour statistics; and Ziga Zarnic (OECD Centre on Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunities) for income distribution and well-being statistics.
The OECD acknowledges the financial contribution from Kazakhstan for the preparation of this report as part of a bilateral agreement between Kazakhstan and the OECD.