The data on social and economic indicators
announced by the National Statistics Office give encouraging hope that Mongolia
is coming out of the recession and the economic crisis. Some selected indicators
are given below.

The number of unemployed people registered at labor
exchanges all over the nation was 3.6 percent less at the end of September than
in the same period last year.

Total turnover of trade with 122 countries in the
first 9 months of 2010 reached USD4,273.9 million, recording a 53.8 percent
rise. Exports stood at USD 2,025.6 million, an increase of 56.6 percent, while
imports accounted for USD2,248.3 million, up 51.5 percent. The balance showed a
deficit of USD222.6 million, rising 16.9 percent against the same period of
2009.

Gross domestic product (at 2005 constant prices) in
the first 3 quarters of 2010 increased 6.3 percent.

Total industrial output in the first nine months
increased by 15 percent (at 2005 constant prices).

Domestic entities carried out 91.1 percent of the
total construction and installation work worth MNT143.7 billion in the first 9
months.

The volume of freight rose 15.5 percent and the number
of passengers 12.8 percent in the first 9 months. The figures include traffic
by all types of transport.

Of the 516,600 people registered under social insurance, 60.7 percent worked at
Government establishments, and the remaining 39.3 percent in the private
sector. Retirement pension accounted for 73.4 percent of the total amount of
pensions paid in the first 3 quarters, pension for the disabled for 12.7
percent, breadwinner loss pension for 7.2 percent, and military pension for 6.7
percent.