19,245,793 (July 2021 est.)
noun: Kazakhstani(s)
adjective: Kazakhstani
Kazakh (Qazaq) 68%, Russian 19.3%, Uzbek 3.2%, Ukrainian 1.5%, Uighur 1.5%, Tatar 1.1%, German 1%, other 4.4% (2019 est.)
Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 83.1% (understand spoken language) and trilingual (Kazakh, Russian, English) 22.3% (2017 est.); Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 94.4% (understand spoken language) (2009 est.)
printed major-language sample:
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Muslim 70.2%, Christian 26.2% (mainly Russian Orthodox), other 0.2%, atheist 2.8%, unspecified 0.5% (2009 est.)
0-14 years: 26.13% (male 2,438,148/female 2,550,535)
15-24 years: 12.97% (male 1,262,766/female 1,212,645)
25-54 years: 42.23% (male 3,960,188/female 4,102,845)
55-64 years: 10.25% (male 856,180/female 1,099,923)
65 years and over: 8.43% (male 567,269/female 1,041,450) (2020 est.)
total dependency ratio: 58.8
youth dependency ratio: 46.3
elderly dependency ratio: 12.6
potential support ratio: 8 (2020 est.)
total: 31.6 years
male: 30.3 years
female: 32.8 years (2020 est.)
0.81% (2021 est.)
15.87 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
8.14 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.)
most of the country displays a low population density, particularly the interior; population clusters appear in urban agglomerations in the far northern and southern portions of the country
urban population: 57.8% of total population (2021)
rate of urbanization: 1.19% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
1.928 million Almaty, 1.212 million NUR-SULTAN (capital), 1.093 million Shimkent (2021)
at birth: 0.94 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 0.96 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.78 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.54 male(s)/female
total population: 0.91 male(s)/female (2020 est.)
28.9 years (2019 est.)
10 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)
total: 19.59 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 22.18 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.17 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.)
total population: 72.25 years
male: 67.12 years
female: 77.06 years (2021 est.)
2.13 children born/woman (2021 est.)
53% (2018)
note: percent of women aged 18-49
improved: urban: 100% of population
rural: 93.8% of population
total: 97.4% of population
unimproved: urban: 0% of population
rural: 6.2% of population
total: 2.6% of population (2017 est.)
2.9% (2018)
3.98 physicians/1,000 population (2014)
6.1 beds/1,000 population (2014)
improved: urban: 99.9% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 99.9% of population
unimproved: urban: 0.1% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0.1% of population (2017 est.)
0.3% (2020 est.)
35,000 (2020 est.)
21% (2016)
2% (2015)
2.6% of GDP (2018)
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.8%
male: 99.8%
female: 99.8% (2015)
total: 16 years
male: 15 years
female: 16 years (2019)
total: 3.8%
male: 3.6%
female: 4% (2017 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Kazakhstan on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kazakhstan 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kazakhstan 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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