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Asia > Kazakhstan > Government

KAZAKHSTANI GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city
Astana; note - the government moved from Almaty to Astana in December 1998
Corruption 2.6 [113rd of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 12% [52nd of 143]
Procedures to register property > number 8 ... [25th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 10.4 % ... [120th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 7 ... [135th of 171]
Status pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 248 days ... [44th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 183 days ... [165th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 52 days ... [78th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 20 days ... [131st of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 156 hours ... [121st of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 3.3 years ... [60th of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 190,045 ... [36th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 1,070 ... [27th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 2,908 ... [27th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Kyrgyzstan has yet to ratify the 2001 boundary delimitation with Kazakhstan; field demarcation of the boundaries with Turkmenistan commenced in 2005, and with Uzbekistan in 2004; demarcation is scheduled to get underway with Russia in 2007; demarcation with China was completed in 2002; creation of a seabed boundary with Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea remains under discussion; equidistant seabed treaties have been ratified with Azerbaijan and Russia in the Caspian Sea, but no resolution has been made on dividing the water column among any of the littoral states
UN membership date 2 Mar. 1992
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/kazakhstan/

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Qazaqstan Respublikasy, kazakstan, Kazakhstan, Republic of

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