Kyrgyzstan recorded the highest growth in industrial production among EAEU member states in January-June 2026, increasing output by 12.7% year-on-year. This was reported by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) on August 7. According to the report, industrial production across the EAEU increased by 0.7% in the first six months of 2026 compared with the same period of 2025.
Armenia ranked second with a 10.8% increase, followed by Kazakhstan with 3.5% and Russia with 0.4%. Meanwhile, Belarus was the only EAEU member state to record a decline, with industrial production decreasing by 0.7% year-on-year. The figures indicate that Kyrgyzstan's industrial sector expanded at a substantially faster pace than the EAEU average during the reporting period.
At the same time, the structure of growth shows that Kyrgyzstan's industrial expansion is already moving beyond individual commodity-based industries. According to the country’s National Statistical Committee, chemical production increased nearly 2.9 times, pharmaceutical output rose 80%, vehicle production 40.7%, and construction materials 33.4%. Meanwhile, mining output increased 12.8%, while basic metals production rose 11.9%.
Trend's analysis suggests that the combination of industrial expansion with active construction and investment will gradually increase demands on Kyrgyzstan's energy system. The divergence in growth rates is particularly notable: while industry is expanding at a double-digit pace, electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply is not showing comparable growth. In the first half of the year, value added in this sector even declined 1.2% year-on-year, while its share of GDP fell from 2.3% to 1.9%.
This creates a rather unusual sequence of economic priorities for Kyrgyzstan. The country is rapidly expanding its production base, increasingly through processing industries, while subsequently facing the need to provide this base with sufficient volumes of reliable and relatively affordable energy. Therefore, further development of generation capacity, modernization of power grids and improvements in energy supply reliability will likely become not merely infrastructure tasks, but prerequisites for sustaining the current pace of industrial growth.
The fact that industrial growth is accompanied by a significant expansion in construction is also noteworthy. This means energy demand could increase on several fronts at once, driven by new production facilities, infrastructure and growing domestic consumption. If current growth rates persist, Kyrgyzstan will likely need to direct increasing investment toward the energy sector to prevent industrial expansion from running into the limits of the country's power system.
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