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Zhezkazgan, or Jezkazgan (Kazakh: Жезқазған, romanized: Jezqazğan (listen ⓘ)) is a city and the administrative centre of Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan. Population: 86,227 (2009 Census results); [2] 90,001 (1999 Census results). [2] Its urban area includes the neighbouring mining town of Satpayev, for a total city population of 148,700.
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 current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]
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.
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. [6]
Official government census data report the contraction of Kazakh population from 3.6 million in 1926, to 2.3 million in 1939. [4] By the mid 20th century, Kazakhstan was home to virtually all ethnic groups that had ever come under the Russian sphere of influence.
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]
Ulytau Region (Kazakh: Ұлытау облысы, romanized: Ūlytau oblysy; Russian: Улытауская область) is a region of Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the region is the city of Jezkazgan. The area split off from Karaganda Region in 2022.