ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s population reached 20,495,975 as of Jan. 1, marking an increase of 212,576 people compared to the beginning of 2025, according to the Bureau of National Statistics.

Kazakhstan's population is dwindling. When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, Kazakhstan had an estimated population of 17 million. Now that number is down to just under 15 million -- a striking ...

A senior politician in Kazakhstan has admitted that state programs designed to encourage people living in the populous south to relocate to the north of the country, to areas bordering Russia, has ...

For the first time in several years, population growth in Kazakhstan is slowing down, and in more than half of the country's regions, especially in the north, the figures indicate a demographic ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 27. As of November 1, 2025, the population of Astana reached 1.622 million people, having increased by 93,542 since the beginning of the year, Astana Mayor Zhenis ...