Editing Demographics of Kazakhstan (section)

=== Population of Kazakhstan 1897–2024 ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Population (thousands)
!Urban, %
!Rural, %
!Source
|----
|1897
|4,000
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|census
|----
|1926
|6,198
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|census
|----
|1939
|6,081
|{{percentage bar|28}}
|{{percentage bar|72}}
|census
|----
|1959
|9,295
|{{percentage bar|44}}
|{{percentage bar|56}}
|census
|----
|1970
|13,001
|{{percentage bar|50}}
|{{percentage bar|50}}
|census
|----
|1979
|14,685
|{{percentage bar|54}}
|{{percentage bar|46}}
|census
|----
|1989
|16,537
|{{percentage bar|57}}
|{{percentage bar|43}}
|census
|----
|1999
|14,953
|{{percentage bar|57}}
|{{percentage bar|43}}
|census
|----
|2009
|15,982
|{{percentage bar|54}}
|{{percentage bar|46}}
|census
|-
|2021
|19,186
|{{percentage bar|61}}
|{{percentage bar|39}}
|census
|----
|2024
|20,182
|{{percentage bar|63}}
|{{percentage bar|37}}
|estimate
|}
:''Data sources'': Population 1897 from [[Russian Empire Census]]. Population 1926 from [[First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union]]. Population 1939–1999 from demoscope.ru,<ref name=demoscope/> 2002–2008 from Kazakhstan Statistical Agency web site.<ref name=agency>[http://www.stat.kz/digital/naselsenie/Pages/default.aspx Population and social policy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713074712/http://www.stat.kz/digital/naselsenie/Pages/default.aspx |date=2009-07-13 }}, Statistical Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan {{in lang|ru}}</ref> Rural/urban shares 1939–1993 from statistical yearbooks, print editions,<ref name=yb>''Statistical Yearbook of Kazakhstan'', Almaty, various years since 1980 {{in lang|ru}}</ref> 2002–2008 from Kazakhstan Statistical Agency web site.<ref name=agency/> 2009–2014 from Kazakhstan Statistical Agency web site.<ref name="statgovkz">[http://www.stat.gov.kz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512040753/http://www.stat.gov.kz/|date=2017-05-12}} Statistical Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

As of 2003, there were discrepancies between Western sources regarding the population of Kazakhstan. [[United States]] government sources, including the [[CIA World Fact Book]] and the [[US Census Bureau International Data Base]], listed the population as 15,340,533,<ref name=cia>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kazakhstan/ CIA Factbook (Kazakhstan)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109132304/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kazakhstan |date=2021-01-09 }} Retrieved on May 2, 2008</ref> while the [[World Bank]] gave a 2002 estimate of 14,858,948.<ref name="World Databank">{{cite web|title=World DataBank>World Development Indicators|url=http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&country=KAZ|website=databank.worldbank.org|access-date=31 January 2017|archive-date=16 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916020719/http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&country=KAZ|url-status=live}}</ref> This discrepancy was presumably due to difficulties in measurement caused by the large migratory population in [[Kazakhstan]], emigration, and low population density – only about 5.5 persons per km<sup>2</sup> in an area the size of [[Western Europe]].