The number of Kazakhs totalled 13.4 million people, the Bureau of National Statistics reported in a thematic compilation on the National Composition of the Population at the end of the 2021 census.
According to the results of the census of 2021, the number of Kazakhs was 13.4 million people, the increase from 2009 was 33.7% (10 million - in 2009). In the total number, the share of Kazakhs increased from 63.1% to 70.4%.
- Also among the nationalities with the largest number of people were Russians - 2.9 million people, Uzbeks - 614 thousand people, Ukrainians - 387 thousand people and Uighurs - 290 thousand people, - specified in the Bureau of National Statistics.