Demographics of Kazakhstan | |
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Population | 20,182,003 (1 August 2024) [1] |
Density | 7.40651/km2 |
Growth rate | 8.6/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
Birth rate | 17.2 births/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
Death rate | 8.1 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
Life expectancy | 73.3 years (2024 est.) [2] |
• male | 69 years |
• female | 77.9 years |
Fertility rate | 3.32 children born/woman (2023 est.) [3] |
Infant mortality rate | 8 deaths/1,000 live births (2024 est.) |
Net migration rate | -0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
Age structure | |
0–14 years | 29.5% (male 3,001,983/female 2,833,471) |
15–64 years | 62.0% (male 6,028,354/female 6,224,431) |
65 and over | 8.5% (male 617,364/female 1,061,204) (2023 Est.) [4] |
Sex ratio | |
Total | 0.95 male(s)/female |
At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
Under 15 | 1.05 male(s)/female |
15–64 years | 0.95 male(s)/female |
65 and over | 0.54 male(s)/female |
Nationality | |
Nationality | Kazakh(s) or Kazakhstani(s) |
Major ethnic | Kazakh (71.0%) [5] [6] |
Minor ethnic | |
Language | |
Official | Kazakh |
Spoken | Languages of Kazakhstan |
The demographics of Kazakhstan enumerate the demographic features of the population of Kazakhstan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. Some use the word Kazakh to refer to the Kazakh ethnic group and language (autochthonous to Kazakhstan as well as parts of China and Mongolia) and Kazakhstani to refer to Kazakhstan and its citizens regardless of ethnicity, [7] [8] but it is common to use Kazakh in both senses. [9] [10] [11] It is expected that by 2050, the population will range from 23.5 to 27.7 million people. [12]
Official estimates put the population of Kazakhstan at 20,182,003 as of August 2024, of which 62.7% is urban and 37.3% is rural population. [13] In a report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in September 2021, the level of urbanization in Kazakhstan is estimated to reach 69.1% by 2050. [14]
The proportion of men makes up 48.85% and the proportion of women is 51.15%.
Ethnic Kazakhs make up 71%, Russians 14.9%, Uzbeks 3.3%, Ukrainians 1.9%, Uygur 1.5%, Germans 1.1%, Tatars 1.1%, and others 5.2%.
The first census in Kazakhstan was conducted under Russian Imperial rule in 1897, which estimated population at round 4 million people. Following censuses showed a growth until 1939, where numbers showed a decrease to 6,081 thousand relative to the previous census done 13 years earlier, due to famines of 1922 and 1933.
But since 1939 population has steadily increased to 16.5 million in 1989, according to corresponding year census. Official estimates indicate that the population continued to increase after 1989, peaking out at 17 million in 1993 and then declining to 15 million in the 1999 census. The downward trend continued through 2002, when the estimated population bottomed out at 14.9 million, and then resumed its growth. [15] Significant numbers of Russians returned to Russia. Kazakhstan underwent significant urbanization during the first 50 years of the Soviet era, as the share of the rural population declined from more than 90% in the 1920s to less than 50% since the 1970s. [16] The fertility rate declined to amongst the lower rates in the world in 1999 and increased to again amongst the higher rates in the world in 2021.
Year | Population (thousands) | Urban, % | Rural, % | Source |
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1897 | 4,000 | — | — | census |
1926 | 6,198 | — | — | census |
1939 | 6,081 | census | ||
1959 | 9,295 | census | ||
1970 | 13,001 | census | ||
1979 | 14,685 | census | ||
1989 | 16,537 | census | ||
1999 | 14,953 | census | ||
2009 | 15,982 | census | ||
2021 | 19,186 | census | ||
2024 | 20,182 | estimate |
As of 2003, there were discrepancies between Western sources regarding the population of Kazakhstan. United States government sources, including the CIA World Fact Book and the US Census Bureau International Data Base, listed the population as 15,340,533, [19] while the World Bank gave a 2002 estimate of 14,858,948. [20] This discrepancy was presumably due to difficulties in measurement caused by the large migratory population in Kazakhstan, emigration, and low population density – only about 5.5 persons per km2 in an area the size of Western Europe.
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2021) (Data refer to resident population.): [21]
Age Group | Male | Female | Total | % |
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Total | 9 223 589 | 9 777 399 | 19 000 988 | 100 |
0 | 223 552 | 209 539 | 433 090 | 2.28 |
1–4 | 818 257 | 766 788 | 1 585 045 | 8.34 |
5–9 | 982 270 | 927 108 | 1 909 377 | 10.05 |
10–14 | 857 617 | 811 696 | 1 669 313 | 8.76 |
15–19 | 643 879 | 610 943 | 1 254 821 | 6.60 |
20–24 | 568 174 | 544 634 | 1 112 808 | 5.86 |
25–29 | 699 428 | 680 033 | 1 379 461 | 7.26 |
30–34 | 793 785 | 815 781 | 1 609 566 | 8.47 |
35–39 | 690 052 | 709 580 | 1 399 631 | 7.37 |
40–44 | 586 612 | 615 237 | 1 201 849 | 6.33 |
45–49 | 525 164 | 576 347 | 1 101 510 | 5.80 |
50–54 | 475 079 | 532 077 | 1 007 156 | 5.30 |
55–59 | 449 996 | 534 713 | 984 709 | 5.18 |
60–64 | 375 734 | 486 204 | 861 938 | 4.54 |
65–69 | 241 436 | 361 664 | 603 099 | 3.17 |
70–74 | 149 026 | 263 406 | 412 432 | 2.17 |
75–79 | 60 581 | 122 881 | 183 462 | 0.97 |
80–84 | 57 026 | 141 863 | 198 889 | 1.05 |
85–89 | 17 029 | 47 320 | 64 348 | 0.34 |
90–94 | 5 915 | 15 747 | 21 662 | 0.11 |
95–99 | 1 980 | 3 013 | 4 993 | 0.03 |
100+ | 1 002 | 831 | 1 832 | 0.01 |
Age group | Male | Female | Total | Percent |
0–14 | 2 881 696 | 2 715 129 | 5 596 825 | 29.46 |
15–64 | 5 807 898 | 6 105 548 | 11 913 446 | 62.70 |
65+ | 533 995 | 956 722 | 1 490 717 | 7.84 |
Structure of the population (01.01.2021) (Estimates): [22]
Age Group | Male | Female | Total | % |
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Total | 9 160 399 | 9 719 153 | 18 879 552 | 100 |
0–15 | 2 980 297 | 2 809 236 | 5 789 533 | 30.7 |
16–62(59) | 5 524 137 | 5 485 235 | 11 009 372 | 58.3 |
63(60)+ | 655 965 | 1 424 682 | 2 080 647 | 11.0 |
The age group under 15 is considered below the working age, while the age group over 63(60) is above the working age (63 years for men, 60 for women).
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Average population | Live births1 | Deaths1 | Natural change1 | Crude birth rate (per 1000) | Crude death rate (per 1000) | Natural change (per 1000) | Crude migration change (per 1000) | Fertility rates | Life expectancy | |
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1950 | 6,703,000 | 254,169 | 79,005 | 175,164 | 37.9 | 11.8 | 26.1 | |||
1951 | 6,946,000 | 272,354 | 80,553 | 191,801 | 39.2 | 11.6 | 27.6 | 8.7 | ||
1952 | 7,133,000 | 265,235 | 85,241 | 179,994 | 37.2 | 12.0 | 25.2 | 1.7 | ||
1953 | 7,271,000 | 262,758 | 73,930 | 188,828 | 36.1 | 10.2 | 26.0 | -6.7 | ||
1954 | 7,528,000 | 278,420 | 76,092 | 202,328 | 37.0 | 10.1 | 26.9 | 8.4 | ||
1955 | 7,992,000 | 299,854 | 73,283 | 226,571 | 37.5 | 9.2 | 28.3 | 33.3 | ||
1956 | 8,426,000 | 305,430 | 64,807 | 240,623 | 36.3 | 7.7 | 28.6 | 25.7 | ||
1957 | 8,722,000 | 326,766 | 68,050 | 258,716 | 37.5 | 7.8 | 29.7 | 5.4 | ||
1958 | 9,077,000 | 336,020 | 62,680 | 273,340 | 37.0 | 6.9 | 30.1 | 10.6 | ||
1959 | 9,516,000 | 349,794 | 69,602 | 280,192 | 36.8 | 7.3 | 29.4 | 19.0 | ||
1960 | 9,996,000 | 372,595 | 65,667 | 306,928 | 37.2 | 6.6 | 30.7 | 19.7 | ||
1961 | 10,480,000 | 377,789 | 68,610 | 309,179 | 36.1 | 6.5 | 29.5 | 18.9 | ||
1962 | 10,958,000 | 369,002 | 70,952 | 298,050 | 33.7 | 6.5 | 27.2 | 18.4 | ||
1963 | 11,321,000 | 346,084 | 67,218 | 278,866 | 30.6 | 5.9 | 24.6 | 8.5 | ||
1964 | 11,610,000 | 324,412 | 66,197 | 258,215 | 27.9 | 5.7 | 22.2 | 3.3 | ||
1965 | 11,909,000 | 314,533 | 69,803 | 244,730 | 26.4 | 5.9 | 20.6 | 5.2 | ||
1966 | 12,185,000 | 307,905 | 69,402 | 238,503 | 25.3 | 5.7 | 19.6 | 3.6 | ||
1967 | 12,456,000 | 301,715 | 71,824 | 229,891 | 24.2 | 5.8 | 18.5 | 3.7 | ||
1968 | 12,694,000 | 296,882 | 73,496 | 223,386 | 23.4 | 5.8 | 17.6 | 1.5 | ||
1969 | 12,901,000 | 297,129 | 78,660 | 218,469 | 23.0 | 6.1 | 16.9 | -0.6 | ||
1970 | 13,106,000 | 301,451 | 77,619 | 223,832 | 23.0 | 5.9 | 17.1 | -1.2 | ||
1971 | 13,321,000 | 317,423 | 79,881 | 237,542 | 23.8 | 6.0 | 17.8 | -1.4 | ||
1972 | 13,534,000 | 318,551 | 85,122 | 233,429 | 23.5 | 6.3 | 17.2 | -1.2 | ||
1973 | 13,742,000 | 321,075 | 90,282 | 230,793 | 23.4 | 6.6 | 16.8 | -1.4 | ||
1974 | 13,955,000 | 338,291 | 93,582 | 244,709 | 24.2 | 6.7 | 17.5 | -2.0 | ||
1975 | 14,136,000 | 343,668 | 101,865 | 241,803 | 24.3 | 7.2 | 17.1 | -4.1 | ||
1976 | 14,279,000 | 350,362 | 103,892 | 246,470 | 24.5 | 7.3 | 17.3 | -7.2 | ||
1977 | 14,425,000 | 349,379 | 105,376 | 244,003 | 24.2 | 7.3 | 16.9 | -6.7 | ||
1978 | 14,589,000 | 355,337 | 107,293 | 248,044 | 24.4 | 7.4 | 17.0 | -5.6 | ||
1979 | 14,743,000 | 354,320 | 113,687 | 240,633 | 24.0 | 7.7 | 16.3 | -5.7 | ||
1980 | 14,884,000 | 356,013 | 119,078 | 236,935 | 23.9 | 8.0 | 15.9 | -6.3 | ||
1981 | 15,033,000 | 367,950 | 120,974 | 246,976 | 24.5 | 8.0 | 16.4 | -6.4 | ||
1982 | 15,185,000 | 373,416 | 120,165 | 253,251 | 24.6 | 7.9 | 16.7 | -6.6 | ||
1983 | 15,334,000 | 378,577 | 123,807 | 254,770 | 24.7 | 8.1 | 16.6 | -6.8 | ||
1984 | 15,481,000 | 399,403 | 129,796 | 269,607 | 25.8 | 8.4 | 17.4 | -7.8 | 3.04 | |
1985 | 15,623,000 | 396,929 | 126,786 | 270,143 | 25.4 | 8.1 | 17.3 | -8.1 | 3.02 | |
1986 | 15,776,000 | 410,846 | 119,149 | 291,697 | 26.0 | 7.6 | 18.5 | -8.7 | 3.13 | |
1987 | 15,948,000 | 417,139 | 122,835 | 294,304 | 26.2 | 7.7 | 18.5 | -7.6 | 3.19 | |
1988 | 16,188,000 | 407,116 | 126,898 | 280,218 | 25.3 | 7.9 | 17.4 | -2.4 | 3.13 | |
1989 | 16,243,000 | 382,269 | 126,378 | 255,891 | 23.5 | 7.8 | 15.8 | -12.4 | 2.81 | |
1990 | 16,328,000 | 362,081 | 128,576 | 233,505 | 22.2 | 7.9 | 14.3 | -9.1 | 2.72 | |
1991 | 16,405,000 | 353,174 | 134,324 | 218,850 | 21.5 | 8.2 | 13.3 | -8.6 | 2.67 | |
1992 | 16,439,000 | 337,612 | 137,518 | 200,094 | 20.5 | 8.4 | 12.2 | -10.1 | 2.62 | |
1993 | 16,381,000 | 315,482 | 156,070 | 159,412 | 19.3 | 9.5 | 9.7 | -13.2 | 2.54 | |
1994 | 16,146,000 | 305,624 | 160,339 | 145,285 | 18.9 | 9.9 | 9.0 | -23.3 | 2.43 | |
1995 | 15,816,000 | 276,125 | 168,656 | 107,469 | 17.5 | 10.7 | 6.8 | -27.2 | 2.21 | |
1996 | 15,578,000 | 253,175 | 166,028 | 87,147 | 16.3 | 10.7 | 5.6 | -20.6 | 2.02 | |
1997 | 15,334,000 | 232,356 | 160,138 | 72,218 | 15.2 | 10.4 | 4.7 | -20.4 | 1.93 | |
1998 | 15,072,000 | 222,380 | 154,314 | 68,066 | 14.8 | 10.2 | 4.5 | -21.6 | 1.81 | |
1999 | 14,939,000 | 217,578 | 147,416 | 70,162 | 14.6 | 9.9 | 4.7 | -13.5 | 1.80 | 65.6 |
2000 | 14,883,626 | 222,054 | 149,778 | 72,276 | 14.9 | 10.1 | 4.9 | -8.6 | 1.88 | 65.5 |
2001 | 14,858,335 | 221,487 | 147,876 | 73,611 | 14.9 | 9.9 | 5.0 | -6.7 | 1.84 | 65.8 |
2002 | 14,858,948 | 227,171 | 149,381 | 77,790 | 15.3 | 10.1 | 5.2 | -5.2 | 1.88 | 66.0 |
2003 | 14,909,018 | 247,946 | 155,277 | 92,669 | 16.6 | 10.4 | 6.2 | -2.8 | 2.03 | 65.8 |
2004 | 15,012,985 | 273,028 | 152,250 | 120,778 | 18.2 | 10.1 | 8.1 | -1.1 | 2.21 | 66.2 |
2005 | 15,147,029 | 278,977 | 157,121 | 121,856 | 18.4 | 10.4 | 8.1 | 0.8 | 2.22 | 65.9 |
2006 | 15,308,084 | 301,756 | 157,210 | 144,546 | 19.7 | 10.3 | 9.4 | 1.2 | 2.36 | 66.2 |
2007 | 15,484,192 | 321,963 | 158,297 | 163,666 | 20.8 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 0.9 | 2.47 | 66.3 |
2008 | 15,674,000 | 357,555 | 152,878 | 204,677 | 22.8 | 9.8 | 13.0 | -0.7 | 2.68 | 67.1 |
2009 | 16,092,822 | 356,261 | 142,883 | 213,378 | 22.1 | 8.9 | 13.3 | 13.4 | 2.55 | 68.4 |
2010 | 16,321,872 | 367,707 | 146,027 | 221,680 | 22.5 | 9.0 | 13.6 | 0.6 | 2.59 | 68.5 |
2011 | 16,557,201 | 372,690 | 144,323 | 228,367 | 22.5 | 8.7 | 13.8 | 0.6 | 2.59 | 68.7 |
2012 | 16,792,089 | 381,153 | 143,411 | 237,742 | 22.7 | 8.5 | 14.2 | 0 | 2.62 | 69.5 |
2013 | 17,035,550 | 387,256 | 136,368 | 250,888 | 22.7 | 8.0 | 14.7 | -0.2 | 2.64 | 70.6 |
2014 | 17,288,285 | 399,309 | 132,287 | 267,022 | 23.1 | 7.7 | 15.5 | -0.7 | 2.73 | 71.4 |
2015 | 17,542,806 | 398,458 | 130,811 | 267,647 | 22.7 | 7.5 | 15.3 | -0.6 | 2.74 | 72.0 |
2016 | 17,794,055 | 400,694 | 131,231 | 269,463 | 22.5 | 7.4 | 15.2 | -0.9 | 2.77 | 72.4 |
2017 | 18,037,775 | 390,262 | 129,009 | 261,253 | 21.6 | 7.2 | 14.5 | -0.8 | 2.75 | 73.0 |
2018 | 18,276,452 | 397,799 | 130,448 | 267,351 | 21.8 | 7.1 | 14.6 | -1.4 | 2.84 | 73.2 |
2019 | 18,513,673 | 402,310 | 133,128 | 269,182 | 21.7 | 7.2 | 14.5 | -1.5 | 2.90 | 73.2 |
2020 | 18,755,665 | 426,824 | 161,333 | 265,491 | 22.8 | 8.6 | 14.2 | -1.1 | 3.13 | 71.4 |
2021 | 19,000,987 | 446,491 | 182,403 | 264,088 | 23.5 | 9.6 | 13.9 | -0.8 | 3.32 | 70.2 |
2022 | 19,634,983 | 403,893 | 133,523 | 270,370 | 20.6 | 6.8 | 13.8 | 19.6 | 3.05 | 74.4 |
2023 | 19,900,325 | 388,428 | 130,686 | 257,742 | 19.5 | 6.6 | 13.0 | 0.5 | 2.96 | 75.1 |
1Births and deaths until 1979 are estimates.
Period | Live births | Deaths | Natural increase |
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January—November 2023 | 357,427 | 118,005 | +239,422 |
January—November 2024 | 338,612 | 121,479 | +217,133 |
Difference | -18,815 (-5.26%) | +3,474 (+2.94%) | -22,289 |
Total fertility rate by regions of Kazakhstan:
Thus it can be seen that fertility rate is higher in more traditionalist and religious south and west, and lower in the north and east, where the percentage of Slavic and German population is still relatively high. [29] [30] [31]
According to the Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Survey in 1999, the TFR for Kazakhs was 2.5 and that for Russians was 1.38. TFR in 1989 for Kazakhs & Russians were 3.58 and 2.24 respectively. [32]
Year | Kazakh women | Russian women | Ukrainian women | Uzbek women |
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1989 | 3.58 | 2.24 | — | — |
1995 | 3.11 | 1.69 | — | — |
1999 | 2.50 | 1.38 | — | — |
2000 | 2.12 | 1.18 | 1.60 | 2.90 |
2001 | 2.11 | 1.17 | 1.59 | 2.92 |
2002 | 2.14 | 1.21 | 1.60 | 2.88 |
2003 | 2.30 | 1.30 | 1.71 | 3.10 |
2004 | 2.52 | 1.36 | 1.76 | 3.39 |
2005 | 2.54 | 1.35 | 1.73 | 3.32 |
2006 | 2.73 | 1.38 | 1.80 | 3.43 |
Period | Life expectancy in Years | Period | Life expectancy in Years |
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1950–1955 | 55.1 | 1985–1990 | 67.5 |
1955–1960 | 57.3 | 1990–1995 | 65.5 |
1960–1965 | 59.5 | 1995–2000 | 63.0 |
1965–1970 | 61.7 | 2000–2005 | 64.6 |
1970–1975 | 63.3 | 2005–2010 | 66.0 |
1975–1980 | 64.3 | 2010–2015 | 69.1 |
1980–1985 | 65.9 |
Source: UN World Population Prospects [34]
Kazakhstan's dominant ethnic group, the Kazakhs, traces its origins to the 15th century, when after the disintegration of Golden Horde, numbers of Turkic and Turco-Mongol tribes united to establish the Kazakh Khanate. With a cohesive culture and national identity, they constituted an absolute majority on the land until colonization by the Russian empire.
Russian advances into the territory of Kazakhstan began in the late 18th century, when the Kazakhs nominally accepted Russian rule in exchange for protection against repeated attacks by the western Mongolian Kalmyks. In the 1890s, Russian peasants began to settle on the fertile lands of northern Kazakhstan, causing many Kazakhs to move eastwards into Chinese territory in search of new grazing grounds. The 1906 completion of the Trans-Aral Railway between Orenburg and Tashkent further facilitated Russian colonization. [36] [37]
The first collective farms were formed in Kazakhstan in 1921, populated primarily by Russians and Soviet deportees. In 1930, as part of the first Five Year Plan, the Soviet Government decreed measures of force sedentarization of nomads and their incorporation into collectivized farms. This movement resulted in devastating famines of the 1920s and of the 1930s, claiming the lives of an estimated 40% of ethnic Kazakhs (1.5 million), between 1930 and 1933. [38] Hundreds of thousands also fled to China, Iran and Afghanistan. The famine made Kazakhs a minority of the population of Kazakhstan, and only after the republic gained independence in 1991 did Kazakhs have a slim demographic majority within Kazakhstan. [36]
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Kazakhstan–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Kazakhstan has an embassy in Moscow, a consulate-general in Saint Petersburg, Astrakhan, and Omsk. Russia has an embassy in Astana and consulates in Almaty and Oral.
Kazakhstan is a multiethnic country where the indigenous ethnic group, the Kazakhs, comprise the majority of the population. As of 2024, ethnic Kazakhs are about 71% of the population and ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan in 2024 was about 14.9% in second place. These are the two dominant ethnic groups in the country with a wide array of other groups represented, including Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Uyghurs, Koreans, and Meskhetian Turks.
The Kazakhstan–Russia border is the 7,644-kilometre (4,750 mi) international border between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. It is the longest continuous international border in the world and the second longest by total length, after the Canada–United States border. It is in the same location as the former administrative-territorial border between the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
The Georgian diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from Georgia. The countries with the largest Georgian communities outside Georgia are Turkey and Russia. The Georgian diaspora, or the dispersion of Georgian people outside of Georgia, began to take shape during various historical periods. However, a significant wave of emigration occurred during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly during times of political upheaval, such as the Russian Empire's expansion into the Caucasus region and the Soviet era.
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