The population of Kazakhstan is a complex and interesting history of formation

The population of Kazakhstan in the short termcan approach the mark of 17 million people. The history of the formation of the composition and number of people residing on the territory of this country is interesting because there were periods when the indigenous population of this region was significantly smaller than the coming nationalities.

The population of Kazakhstan was longunchanged and from ancient times until the 18th century was about 1 million people. First there lived the tribes of the Iranian group, which at the beginning of the new millennium were replaced by tribes of Turkic orientation. However, everything changed at the beginning of the 20th century, when Russian and Ukrainian families were sent to Kazakh territories during the Stolypin reforms. Until now, the share of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, etc. in the north of this country is up to 40-70 percent.

In the 20th century, the reduction in the number of Kazakhs and othersThe famines of the beginning of the 1930s, when a number of families left the territory of Kazakhstan to China and other Soviet republics, contributed to the nationalities. The population of Kazakhstan in those years lost about one and a half million people. After 1935, Kazakhstan became the homeland for a number of peoples of Soviet Russia, who were forcibly deported to this region. Here Poles, Germans, Chechens, Ingushs were transported. The movement took place by tens of thousands of people, which led to a reduction in the number of Kazakhs to 30% in 1959. In the 50s and 60s of the 20th century, the republic's population was replenished once again by settlers who came to develop virgin lands in this region.

After the collapse of the USSR in the country intensifiedimmigration flows, as a result of which the population of Kazakhstan lost about 63-64% of Germans living there, about 28-29% of Russians, 24-25% of Tatars, many Belarusians left (38% of the total number of residents). Instead, the number of Kazakhs actually increased (by 22%) and representatives of the Uzbek, Uighur, Kurdish nationalities (by 11, 13 and 28 percent, respectively).

In the bulk of the population of Kazakhstanprofesses the Muslim faith. In second place (about 27%) is Christianity. The most common in the country is the Russian language. It is spoken fluently by about 95% of the population and about 85% speaks both spoken and written language. The Kazakh language is best spoken by Kazakhs and Uzbeks - 98.4 and 95.5 percent, respectively.

Kazakhstan, whose population is worthin the 61st place (at the end of 2012) in the list of countries around the world, is a country where the urban population is comparable in size to rural (9.1 and 7.6 million, respectively). The birth rate in the country exceeds the death rate by half. At the end of 2011, there were 22-23 children per 1000 people, while residents of Kazakhstan are four times more likely to get married than divorced. According to statistical forecasts, by 2020 the population of this state can increase to 18.5 - 18.6 million people. The last figure is calculated taking into account external and internal migration, and the first - with invariable parameters of birth rate, death rate, migration, etc.

Ethnic composition of modern Kazakhstan is more than diverse - there are about 130 nationalities, of which the most numerous are Kazakhs, Russians, Ukrainians, Germans (in descending order).