Abstract
The problems of shadow economy development, its place in the national economic system, the ratio of constructive and destructive potential do not lose relevance and still cause active scientific discussions. The need to implement continuous measures to counteract the development of the scale and types of shadow economic activity, as well as the complexity of their application requires the assessment of the shadow economy. Despite the variety of methods to assess the informal economy the problem of identifying the shadow economy based on empirical analysis of the relationship between economic crime and the shadow economy is conducted in few works. The aim of the article is to consider the method of measuring the shadow economy based on crime rates and calculation of the adjusted by The authors give an interpretation of the term "shadow economy" and examine the problems of measuring the economy in the "shadow". As a result of research authors have defined insignificant excess of a monetary turnover over a turnover of official sector. On the basis of the analysis of the statistical data on scales of economic crimes and an estimation of the measures realized by the government of RK for suppression of illegal economic activities it is revealed that the sizes of economic crimes in 2020 in comparison with 2006 have almost in 2 times decreased.