Astana. April 15. Kazakhstan Today - Growth of economy for half a year will make approximately 5.5 %. The Minister of Economics and Budgetary Planning Bakhyt Sultanov said in the interview to journalists today, the agency reports. "We, in the joint statement of the government, the National Bank and the Agency for Financial Supervision, forecasted for economic growth for a year within an interval of 5 - 7 % and now we predict that growth of economy will be in this interval the whole year," B. Sultanov reminded. "In the second quarter we forecast that economic growth will reach approximately 5.5 %," the Minister specified.