22:42, 17 February 2014 | GMT +5
Kazakhstan's population exceeded 17 million 165 thousand
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The country's population as of 1 January 2014 has been amounted to 17 165.2 thousand people including urban up to 9 450.1 million (55%) and rural up to 7 715.1 thousand people (45%), chairman of the Kazakh Statistics Agency Alikhan Smailov told at a briefing.

Compared with the beginning of 2013 the population increased by 255.4 thousand people or 1.5 %.
According to him, the country's natural population increase in January-December 2013 amounted to 255.8 thousand people and compared to the analogous period in 2012 (237.9 thousand people) it increased by 7,5%.