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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.
The US Census Bureau International Database lists the population of Kazakhstan as 18.9 million (May 2019), [224] while United Nations sources such as the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [225] [226] give an estimate of 19,196,465. Official estimates put the population of Kazakhstan at 20 million as of November 2023. [227]
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
Rank Region HDI (2022) Very high human development 1: Almaty: 0.831 2: Karaganda Region: 0.823 3: Akmola Region, Kostanay Region, Pavlodar Region, North Kazakhstan Region: 0.816 – Kazakhstan
After the administrative reform in 1997, the last change happened since then took place in 1999, when parts of North Kazakhstan that originally belonged to Kokshetau region became part of Akmola. The 1990s merges were in order to dilute the Russian population in the resulting region and to avoid having regions where Russians form a majority.
Kazakhstan has the 62nd largest population in the world, with a population density of less than 6 people per square kilometre (15 per sq. mi.). Kazakhstan declared itself an independent country on December 16, 1991, the last Soviet republic to do so. Its communist-era leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, became the country's new president.
Regions of Kazakhstan by GDP per capita. Map key: ... List. Statistics shown are for 2022 levels, according to Kazakhstan's Bureau of National Statistics. [1] Rank
Turkistan Region, [a] formerly South Kazakhstan Region [b] from 1992 to 2018 and Chimkent Region [c] from 1963 to 1991, is the southernmost region of Kazakhstan. It had a population of 2,088,510 as of 2022; 2,469,367 (2009 Census results); [6] 1,978,339 (1999 Census results). [6] Its capital is Turkistan, formerly Shymkent until 2018.