Kazakhs

Kazakhs
қазақтар

A. QunanbayuliAblai KhanS. Kurmangazy
A. BaitursynovT. AubakirovN. NazarbayevKassym-Jomart TokayevAssan BazayevShamshi KaldayakovMukhtar ShakhanovRadik ZhaparovAliya Yussupova
Àpapọ̀ iye oníbùgbé
approx. 14,300,000
Regions with significant populations
 Kazakhstan 10,600,000 [1]
 Uzbekistan 800,000 - 1,100,000 [2]
 China 1,400,000 - 1,500,000 [3]
 Russia 654,000 [4]
 Turkmenistan 40,000 - 90,000 [5]
 Mongolia 140,152 [6]
 Kyrgyzstan 38,900 [7]
 Afghanistan 21,000 [8]
 Turkey 19,000-25,000 [8]
 Germany 890 [8]
 Tajikistan 900 [9]
 Iran 10,000-15,000 [8]
 Ukraine 5,526 [10]
 Bẹ̀lárùs 1,239 [11]
Èdè

Kazakh, Russian, Turkic
(and/or languages in country of residence)

Ẹ̀sìn

Predominantly Sunni Islam

Ẹ̀yà abínibí bíbátan

other Turkic peoples



  1. Estimation based on Kazakh population share of 65% (Kazakhstan President's Speech in the Kazakhstan Parliament 2009-09-01) and 16.3 mln total population according to the preliminary results of the 2009 National Census
  2. Kazakh population share was constant at 4.1% in 1959-1989 (CIA estimates) and declined to 3% in 1996. Official Uzbekistan estimation (E. Yu. Sadovskaya «Migration in Kazakhstan in the beginning of XXI century: main tendentions and perspectives»ISBN 9965-593-01-9) in 1999 was 940,600 Kazakhs or 3.8% of total population. If Kazakh population share was stable at about 4.1% (not taking into account the massive repatriation of ethnic Kazakhs (oralman) to Kazakhstan) and the Uzbekistan population in the middle of 2008 was 27.3 mln, the Kazakh population would be 1.1 mln. Using the CIA estimate of the share of Kazakhs (3%), the total Kazakh population in Uzbekistan would be 0.8 mln
  3. Census 2000 counts 1.25 mln Kazakhs[1], later the Kazakh population had higher birth rate, but some assimilation processes were present too. Estimations made after the 2000 Cesus are claiming Kazakh population share growth (was 0,104 % in 2000), but even if this share value was preserved at 0.104% level it would be no less than 1.4 mln in 2008
  4. 2002 Census ethnic composition data, in 2003-2008 Kazakhstan national statistics noted the oralman (ethnic Kazakhs) repatriation to Kazakhstan
  5. In 1995 Kazakh poulation was 86,987 [2] or 1.94 % population total. Later was a massive pepartriation of ethnic Kazakh population (oralman) to Kazakhstan: 22,000 before 2001 and 38,000-40,000 in 2001—2007. Press reports are claiming [3], [4], [5] the most part of Kazakhs had left Turkmenistan
  6. Ethnic composition of the Mongolian population in 2007, Mongolian government 2007. Retrieved on 6 April 2009
  7. National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan. 2008 estimation
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 The Kazakh Diasporas: Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information (Rọ́síà). Retrieved on 6 April 2009
  9. Results of the 2000 population census in Tajikistan. Retrieved on 6 April 2009
  10. Ukrainian population census 2001: Distribution of population by nationality. Retrieved on 23 April 2009
  11. Belarus population census 1999: National composition of the population. Retrieved on 23 April 2009