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Geography

Location: Central Asia, northwest of China

Area:
total area: 2,717,300 sq km
land area: 2,669,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than four times the size of Texas

Land boundaries: total 12,012 km, China 1,533 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,051 km, Russia 6,846km, Turkmenistan 379 km, Uzbekistan 2,203 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 17,376,615 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 30% (female 2,589,509; male 2,664,952)
15-64 years: 63% (female 5,531,519; male 5,371,563)
65 years and over: 7% (female 820,900; male 398,172)

Population growth rate: 0.62% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 19.26 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.93 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -5.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 40 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.25 years
male: 63.61 years
female: 73.13 years

Total fertility rate: 2.43 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Kazakh (Qazaq) 41.9%, Russian 37%, Ukrainian 5.2%, German 4.7%, Uzbek2.1%, Tatar 2%, other 7.1% (1991 official data)

Religions: Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%

Languages: Kazakh (Qazaqz) official language spoken by over 40% of population,Russian (language of interethnic communication) spoken by two-thirds of population and used in everyday business

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 96%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Kazakhstan
conventional short form: Kazakhstan

Type: republic

Capital: Almaty

Independence: 16 December 1991 (from the Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted 28 January 1993


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $55.2 billion

National product real growth rate: -25%

National product per capita: $3,200

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 24%

Unemployment rate: 1.1% includes only officially registered unemployed; also large numbersof underemployed workers

Electricity:
capacity: 17,380,000 kW
production: 65.1 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,750 kWh



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