During the last couple of decades, Kazakhstan has been taking various measures intending to increase the labor productivity and these measures are rather successful in many terms. According to the latest available statistics of the Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economy Kazakhstan, the overall labor productivity in the economy of the country increased by 210% between 2000-2016. Moreover, during the same period the labor productivity grew more in the production of goods reaching 238% compared to the services sector, which showed a 192% increase. As a result, in 2000 Kazakhstan ranked 93rd in terms of labor productivity measured as GDP per person employed whereas the country was the 69th in this list in 2016.