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The Republic of Kazakhstan shipped US$79 billion worth of exported products around the world in 2025.

That dollar amount results from a 31% increase from $60.3 billion five years earlier during 2021.

Year over year, the overall value of Kazakhstani exports declined by -3.2% compared to $81.6 billion starting in 2024.

Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country. A Central Asian nation, Kazakhstan shares its southern border with Russia.

Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, Kazakhstan uses the Kazakhstani tenge which appreciated by 18.1% against the US dollar since 2021 and strengthened by 1.5% from 2024 to 2025. The stronger Kazakhstani currency compared to 2021 made Kazakhstan’s exports paid for in weaker US dollars relatively more expensive for international buyers starting from American currency.

The top 3 most valuable exports from Kazakhstan are crude oil, radioactive chemical elements, and refined copper plus unwrought alloys. Add together, that trio of major Kazakhstani products approached two-thirds (61%) of the Central Asian country’s overall export sales in 2025.

The latest available country-specific data shows that 82.3% of products exported from Kazakhstan was bought by importers in: Italy (19.8% of the Kazakhstani total), mainland China (19.2%), Russia (10.3%), Netherlands (7.6%), Türkiye (4.9%), Uzbekistan (4.5%), France (4.2%), Romania (3.3%), Greece (3%), Kyrgyzstan (2.1%), Spain (1.9%) and Germany (1.6%).

From a continental perspective, 57.6% of Kazakhstan exports by value was delivered to European countries while 38.9% was sold to fellow Asian importers.

Kazakhstan shipped another 1.7% worth of goods to customers in North America.

Smaller percentages went to buyers in Africa (1%), Latin America (0.8%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean then Oceania’s Australia (0.004%).

Given Kazakhstan’s population of 20.4 million people, its total US$79 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $3,900 for every resident in the Central Asian republic. That dollar metric lags the average $4,060 per capita one year earlier during 2024.

Kazakhstan’s top 10 exports accounted for 86.5% of the overall value of its global shipments.

Salt, sulphur, stone and cement represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 80.4% from 2024 to 2025.

In second place for improving export sales was cereals via a 39.2% advance led by wheat.

Kazakhstan’s shipments of gems and precious metals posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 34.2%.

The leading decliner among Kazakhstan’s top 10 export categories was the electrical machinery and equipment group, thanks to a -15.3% year-over-year drop.

The above listed exports are at the two-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level.

Drilling down to the more detailed four-digit HTS codes, Kazakhstan’s most valuable export product is crude oil (50.5% of the country’s total). In second place was Kazakhstan’s exported radioactive chemical elements (5.3%), refined copper plus unwrought alloys (5.2%), copper ores and concentrates (3.6%), iron ferroalloys (2.6%), wheat (2.1%), petroleum gases (2%), processed petroleum oils (0.9%), unwrought silver (0.9%), then non-sublimed sulphur (also 0.9%).

Overall, Kazakhstan achieved a US$14.2 billion trade surplus for 2025 reducing by -35% compared to $21.8 billion in black ink one year earlier.

The following types of Kazakhstani product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.

In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.

 
In macroeconomic terms, Kazakhstan’s total exported goods represent 8.7% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($904.5 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 8.7% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 12% one year earlier. Those percentages suggest a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Kazakhstan’s total economic performance, albeit based on a short timeframe.

Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Kazakhstan’s unemployment rate averaged 4.648% for 2025, declining from an average 4.674% one year earlier in 2024 according to the International Monetary Fund statistics.

Astana is Kazakhstan’s capital city.

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Central Intelligence Agency, Country Profiles, The World Factbook. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on August 12, 2026

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on August 12, 2026

International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Kazakhstan. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Wikipedia, List of Companies of Kazakhstan. Accessed on August 12, 2026

Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on August 12, 2026