Demographics of Kazakhstan

Source UN (World Population Prospects 2019)
Date04 Nov 2021

As of 2021, the population of Kazakhstan is projected at 18.99 million, up by 1.16% compared with 18.78 million in 2020. Kazakhstan is ranked 64th in terms of population and 98th in terms of population growth rate.

There are 0.36 million births in Kazakhstan in 2021. That is 984 per day, which is ranked 68th. The crude birth rate is 18.94 per 1000 people. There are 0.14 million deaths in Kazakhstan in 2021. That is 371 per day, which is ranked 64th. The crude death rate is 7.13 per 1000 people.

10.96 million people are living in urban areas, which is 57.82% of Kazakhstan population. Kazakhstan is ranked 136th in terms of urbanization.

The Sex Ratio in Kazakhstan in 2021 is 94.37 males per 100 females. There are 9.22 million males and 9.77 million females in Kazakhstan. The percentage of female population is 51.45% compare to 48.55% male population. Kazakhstan has 0.55 million more females than males. Kazakhstan is at 35th position out of 201 countries/territories in terms of female to male ratio.

  • Population
  • Growth rate

Kazakhstan population

Year Population Growth (%)
19506,703,000-
19557,932,5174.62
19609,934,5644.37
196511,841,9262.87
197013,036,1401.65
197514,050,2271.3
198014,796,1751.05
198515,665,5941.18
199016,383,8810.35
199515,839,357-1.14
200014,922,724-0.65
200515,402,8031
201016,252,2731.3
201517,572,0101.56
201617,830,9021.47
201718,080,0231.4
201818,319,6161.33
201918,551,4281.27
202018,776,7071.21
202118,994,9581.16
  • Total
  • Crude

Kazakhstan death and birth rate

Year Total Crude(per 1000)
DeathBirthCrude deathCrude birth
1950103,718221,75115.3033.01
1955111,607287,38713.8035.50
1960122,085352,54412.3035.51
1965124,480349,17210.6229.91
1970122,281335,2359.3625.60
1975126,136358,2909.0025.58
1980130,345378,3888.7825.49
1985129,722408,7348.2826.05
1990140,347378,5208.6623.41
1995168,899283,99010.7317.96
2000173,515236,36811.4315.63
2005164,292293,15610.6619.01
2010158,994368,3189.7422.57
2015138,123392,1977.8922.36
2020133,034368,1217.0819.65
2021135,578359,0917.1318.94
  • Population
  • Urbanization

Urban and rural population of Kazakhstan

Year Population Urbanization
UrbanRuralgrowth rate (%)Urban (%)
19502,437,0794,265,912-36.358
19553,231,1364,760,8626.8440.430
19604,418,0285,577,9725.6444.198
19655,602,8436,306,1604.3047.047
19706,585,9706,524,0262.8550.236
19757,427,3496,702,7221.8352.564
19808,070,3016,835,5881.9154.142
19858,843,7056,945,7321.3956.010
19909,306,5487,233,7100.2456.266
19958,966,9867,067,970-1.0955.921
20008,446,9376,610,426-0.5856.098
20058,775,2006,766,2571.1456.463
20109,319,1067,079,8701.4656.827
201510,151,1687,598,4801.6357.191
202010,828,8817,948,2581.2257.671
202110,961,0217,995,8471.2257.821
  • Population pyramid
  • Gender ratio

Kazakhstan population by Age Group (2011)

Age group Male Female Total M per 100 F
PersonsShare (%)
00-04 964,260 903,370 1,867,630 9.83 106.740
05-09 1,016,989 961,169 1,978,158 10.41 105.808
10-14 872,946 824,252 1,697,198 8.93 105.908
15-19 608,625 579,110 1,187,735 6.25 105.097
20-24 544,734 516,979 1,061,713 5.59 105.369
25-29 704,532 692,136 1,396,668 7.35 101.791
30-34 817,620 844,163 1,661,783 8.75 96.856
35-39 694,119 702,560 1,396,679 7.35 98.799
40-44 590,191 609,492 1,199,683 6.32 96.833
45-49 541,915 576,009 1,117,924 5.89 94.081
50-54 460,114 517,339 977,453 5.15 88.939
55-59 481,041 571,926 1,052,967 5.54 84.109
60-64 371,457 476,300 847,757 4.46 77.988
65-69 260,688 396,004 656,692 3.46 65.830
70-74 132,238 223,401 355,639 1.87 59.193
75-79 72,231 152,164 224,395 1.18 47.469
80-84 61,319 148,030 209,349 1.10 41.423
85-89 21,580 56,471 78,051 0.41 38.214
90-94 4,985 18,180 23,165 0.12 27.420
95-99 542 3,542 4,084 0.02 15.302
100+ 17 218 235 0.00 7.798
Total 9,222,143 9,772,815 18,994,958 94.365