KAZ · Europe & Central Asia

Kazakhstan

20,843,754

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+251.18K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+34.5%from 15.5M
Life expectancy74.5 years2024
Fertility rate2.98births per woman · 2024
Urban population62.4%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Kazakhstan is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1429.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6461.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+9.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate19.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+12.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-8.83Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Kazakhstan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 26.54M in 2050—28.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202420.59M
  2. 205026.54M
  3. 210033.67M
Median age in 205031.2years
Births in 2050450.12Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050219.28Kduring the year
Life expectancy78.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19609.43M
  2. 197012.42M
  3. 198015.15M
  4. 199017.15M
  5. 200015.5M
  6. 201016.84M
  7. 202019.48M
  8. 202520.84M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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