Population of Kazakhstan. Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands

As of 2003, there is a discrepancy between reputable sources as to the population of Kazakhstan. United States government sources including the CIA World Fact Book and the US Census Bureau International Data Base list the current population as 16,763,795, while United Nations sources such as the World Bank give a 2002 estimate of 14,794,830. This rather large discrepancy is presumably due to difficulties in measurement caused by the large migratory population of Kazakhstan, emigration, and the low population density - only about 5.5 persons per km² in an area the size of Western Europe. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Possible meanings: Faro Airport (Portugal) Federation of Astrobiology Organizations Financial Aid Office Food and Agriculture Organization This page expands a three-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. ... The World Factbook is an annual publication by the United States with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... ...

According to the 1999 census there are two dominant ethnical groups in Kazakhstan, they are ethnic Kazakhs (53.4%) and ethnic Russians (30%) with a wide array of other groups represented, including Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Chechens, Koreans, and Uyghurs - that is, virtually any group that has ever come under the Russian sphere of influence. This diverse demography is due to the country's central location and its historical use by Russia as a place to send colonists, dissidents, and minority groups from its other frontiers - one can almost not understand Kazakhstan without understanding population transfer in the Soviet Union. From the 1930s until the 1950s, many minorities had been interned in labor camps often merely due to their heritage or beliefs, mostly on collective orders by Stalin. This makes Kazakhstan one of the few places on earth where normally-disparate Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Koreans, Chechen, and Turkic groups live together in a rural setting and not as a result of modern immigration. Most of the population speaks Russian; only half of ethnic Kazakhs speak Kazakh fluently, although it is enjoying a renaissance. Both Kazakh and Russian languages have official status. Languages Kazakh (and/or languages in country of residence) Religions Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups Kipchak and other Turk peoples, ancient Indo-Iranian tribes, Mongols The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Kazakh: Қазақтар []; Russian: Казахи; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turk people of the northern parts of Central... // Geography The Chechen people are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya, which is internationally recognized as part of Russia. ... The Uyghur (also spelled Uighur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. ... Not by Their Own Will. ... Indo-Iranian can refer to: The Indo-Iranian languages The prehistoric Indo-Iranian people, see Aryan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the various peoples speaking one of the Turkic languages. ... Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants[2], natively , , ‎) is a Western Turkic language closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak. ...

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the German population of Kazakhstan proceeded to emigrate en masse during the 1990s [1], as Germany is willing to repatriate them. Also much of the smaller Greek minority took the chance to repatriate to Greece, so did many Russians move to Russia. Some groups have fewer good options for emigration but because of the economic situation are also leaving at rates comparable to the rest of the former East bloc.
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Table: Ethnic Composition of Kazakhstan (census data)^[1]

Table: Ethnic Composition of Kazakhstan (Detailed Census Data)[2]

Total Slavic/European population was 39.0% in 1999. (It was 60.3% in 1959, 57.3% in 1970,54.5% in 1979 and 49.8% in 1989). [3] Russian Orthodox church in Almaty There has been a substantial population of Russians in Kazakhstan since the 19th century. ... Kurdistan Uyezd (Russian: Курдистанский уезд), also known colloquially as Red Kurdistan (from Kurdish Kurdistana Sor, Azerbaijani Qızıl Kürdistan, Russian Красный Курдистан) was a Soviet administrative unit that existed for six years from 1923 to 1929. ...

Age structure:

• 0-14 years: 27% (male 2,332,284; female 2,260,730)
• 15-64 years: 65% (male 5,320,938; female 5,638,710)
• 65 years and over: 8% (male 398,225; female 782,340) (2000 est.)

Population growth rate:

• 0.26% (2004 est.)

Birth rate:

• 16.23 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Death rate:

• 9.4 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Net migration rate:

• -3.32 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)

Sex ratio:

• at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
• under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
• 15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 0.54 male(s)/female
• total population: 0.94 male(s)/female (2004 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

• total: 27.41 deaths/1,000 live births
• male: 31.94 deaths/1,000 live births
• female: 22.52 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

• total population: 66.07 years
• male: 60.72 years
• female: 71.73 years (2004 est.)

Total fertility rate:

• 1.9 children born/woman (2004 est.)

According to the Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Survey in 1999, the TFR for Russians was 1.38, that for Russian speaking Kazakhs was 1.9 and that for Kazakh speaking Kazakhs was 2.9. TFR according to regions: Almaty Gorsovet-1.00, South - 2.86, West-2.26, Karaganda-1.59, North-1.72, East- 1.42. percentage of people currently pregnant was 2.89% (2.95% of Kazakhs, 2.49% of Russians and 3.42% of Others).^[2] Map of countries and territories by fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR, also called fertility rate or total period fertility rate) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to experience the current age-specific...

Nationality:

• noun: Kazakhstani(s)
• adjective: Kazakhstani

Ethnic groups: (1999 census)

• Kazakhs (Qazaq) (53.4%)
• Russians (30%)
• Ukrainians (3.7%)
• Germans (2.4%)
• Uzbeks (2.5%)
• Tatars (1.7%)
• Uyghurs (1.4%)
• other (4.9%)

Religions: Languages Kazakh (and/or languages in country of residence) Religions Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups Kipchak and other Turk peoples, ancient Indo-Iranian tribes, Mongols The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Kazakh: Қазақтар []; Russian: Казахи; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turk people of the northern parts of Central... A Kazakh and his camel The Kazakhs (Qazaq, Quazaq), (in Kazakh: Казак; in Russian: Казах; English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia famous in the past for the fierce love of... Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartar (more about the name), is a collective name applied to the Turkic speaking people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. ... Uyghurs (also called Uighurs, Uygurs, or Uigurs) (Chinese:维吾尔 or 維吾爾 ; in pinyin: wéiwúěr) are a Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group together with Han people...

• Muslim (47%)
• Russian Orthodox (44%)
• Protestant (2%)
• other (7%)

Languages: (2001 est) There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

• Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) (64.4%)
• Russian (official, used in everyday business) (95%)

Literacy: (1999 est) Kazakh (also Qazaq and variants[2], natively , , ‎) is a Western Turkic language closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak. ...

• definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 98.4%
• male: 99.1%
• female: 97.7%

References

External links

For current data, use these sites.

• World Bank Database
• CIA World Fact Book page on Kazakhstan
• US Census Bureau International Data Base
• countrystudies.us
• WESP population statistics
• Russians left behind in Central Asia