Editing Demographics of Kazakhstan (section)

== Overview ==
Official estimates put the population of Kazakhstan at 20,182,003 as of August 2024, of which 62.7% is urban and 37.3% is rural population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agency for Strategic planning and reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bureau of National statistics - Main |url=https://stat.gov.kz/en/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=stat.gov.kz |language=en}}</ref> In a report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in September 2021, the level of urbanization in Kazakhstan is estimated to reach 69.1% by 2050.<ref>{{Cite web|last=September 2021|first=Saniya Bulatkulova in Nation on 8|date=2021-09-08|title=7 out of 10 People in Kazakhstan Are Expected to Live in Cities By 2050, According to UN|url=https://astanatimes.com/2021/09/7-out-of-10-people-in-kazakhstan-are-expected-to-live-in-cities-by-2050-according-to-un/|access-date=2021-12-10|website=The Astana Times|language=en|archive-date=2023-05-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529080938/https://astanatimes.com/2021/09/7-out-of-10-people-in-kazakhstan-are-expected-to-live-in-cities-by-2050-according-to-un/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The proportion of men makes up 48.85% and the proportion of women is 51.15%.

Ethnic Kazakhs make up 71%, Russians 14.9%, Uzbeks 3.3%, Ukrainians 1.9%, Uygur 1.5%, Germans 1.1%, Tatars 1.1%, and others 5.2%.

The first census in Kazakhstan was conducted under [[Russian Empire|Russian Imperial]] rule in 1897, which estimated population at round 4 million people. Following censuses showed a growth until 1939, where numbers showed a decrease to 6,081 thousand relative to the previous census done 13 years earlier, due to famines of 1922 and 1933.
{{Main|Kazakh famine of 1919–1922|Kazakh famine of 1932–33}}
But since 1939 population has steadily increased to 16.5 million in 1989, according to corresponding year census. Official estimates indicate that the population continued to increase after 1989, peaking out at 17 million in 1993 and then declining to 15 million in the 1999 census. The downward trend continued through 2002, when the estimated population bottomed out at 14.9 million, and then resumed its growth.<ref name=demoscope>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0103/analit03.php Population dynamics and ethnic composition of Kazakhstan in the second half of the 20th century] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128164928/http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0103/analit03.php |date=2020-11-28 }}, ''Demoscope Weekly'', No. 103-104, 3–16 March 2003 {{in lang|ru}}</ref>  Significant numbers of Russians returned to Russia.  Kazakhstan underwent significant urbanization during the first 50 years of the Soviet era, as the share of the rural population declined from more than 90% in the 1920s to less than 50% since the 1970s.<ref name=yb/> The fertility rate declined to amongst the lower rates in the world in 1999 and increased to again amongst the higher rates in the world in 2021.