Source: The National Statistics Office  Date: April 14, 2010

The National Statistical Office has published figures relating to various sectors. Unless otherwise mentioned, all data are for the first three months of 2010 and the comparison is with figures for the corresponding period last year.

Consumer price index
The national consumer price index in March 2010 rose 2.0 percent over February, 7.4 percent over the end of 2009 and by 8.5 percent over March 2009.

Industrial output
Total industrial output reached MNT 394.2 billion, increasing 13.4 per cent at 2005 constant prices.

Stock trading
Altogether 11.7 million shares valued at MNT3.6 billion were traded at the Stock Exchange in March. In terms of the number of shares traded this was a threefold increase over February and 16.4 times more than in March last year.

Unemployment
The number of registered unemployed people stood at 37,100, an increase of 6.8 percent.

Freight, passengers
All types of transport taken together carried 5.0 million tons of freight and 61.0 million passengers. The volume of freight rose by 16.1 percent, and that of passengers by 26.2 percent.

Budget, taxes
The General Government budget showed a deficit of MNT109.2 billion. The current account had a surplus of MNT27.1 billion. Tax revenue increased 73.3 percent. Receipts from the windfall profits tax rose 13.5 times more, from VAT 68.6 percent, and from corporate income tax 97.9 percent.
Non-tax revenue increased by 5.6 percent.

External trade
Mongolia’s trade with 103 countries reached a total turnover of USD1076.2 million, of which exports accounted for USD499.0 million and imports for USD577.2 million, resulting in a deficit of USD78.2 million, a 9.3 per cent rise. The total turnover increased 50.3 per cent, exports rising 54.8 per cent, and imports 46.6 per cent.

Construction and installation
Construction and installation work worth MNT 8.4 billion was carried out, 47.7 per cent of which was executed by domestic entities.

Pensions and social allowances
The total number of insured persons was 397,500, of whom 59.1 percent worked in private establishments and 40.9 percent for the Government. MNT83.4 billion was paid in pensions from the Social Insurance fund. Some 73 percent of this went to the elderly, 12.8 percent to the disabled, 7.5 percent to families that lost their breadwinner, and 6.8 percent to veterans.
Altogether 173,000 people received pensions, benefits and assistance totaling MNT11.2 billion. The number has gone down by 86.1 percent, and the amount of money disbursed was 67.0 percent less.

Births, deaths
There were 6.1 births and 1.6 deaths per 1,000 population. The number of live births was 16,875, rising 3.3 percent over the same period of the previous year. Infant mortality rose 14.3 percent, but the number of maternal deaths dropped by four to stand at eight.