As of September 1, 2025, there are 69,222 small and medium-sized businesses (hereinafter referred to as SMEs) operating in the region, which is 105.9% of the 2024 level (September 1, 2024 - 65,379 units), of which 9,568 are small business legal entities, 148 are medium-sized business legal entities, 53,211 are individual entrepreneurs and 6,295 are peasant farms.
According to the results of the first quarter of 2025, the number of people employed in SMEs is 164,277 people (according to the results of the first quarter of 2024 - 159,195 people), including 50,082 people employed by small business legal entities, 25,341 people employed by medium-sized business legal entities, 77,089 people employed by individual entrepreneurs, and 11,765 people employed by peasant farms (statistics are compiled on a quarterly basis with a delay of the quarter following the reporting period).
The output of SMEs in nominal terms increased by 15.5% and amounted to 515,962 million tenge (at the end of the first quarter of 2024 - 446,680 million tenge), including small business legal entities that produced products worth 182,230 million tenge, medium-sized business legal entities - 133,525 million tenge, individual entrepreneurs - 199,174 million tenge, and peasant farms - 1,033 million tenge. At the same time, the index of physical output increased by 16.2% and amounted to 106.4% (at the end of the first quarter of 2024 – 94.7%), the gross added value of output increased by 11.1% and amounted to 321,322.4 million tenge (at the end of the first quarter of 2024 – 289,308.3 million tenge). The share of small and medium-sized businesses in GRP is 30.2% (at the end of the first quarter of 2024 – 29.7%, growth – 0.5%) (statistics are compiled on a quarterly basis with a delay of the quarter following the reporting one).

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kostanay/press/news/details/1077321?lang=kk