Kazakhstan’s population to reach 17 million

    “As of September 1, 2012 the population of Kazakhstan exceeded 16.8 million people,” Chairman of the Kazakh Statistics Agency Alikhan Smailov said.     “The country’s population reached 16,836,700 thousand people, including 9,215,600 ( 54.7%), of urban and 7.621,100 ( 45,3%) of the rural population. Since the beginning of the year, the population...