Kazakhstan's population 4% up during independence years

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Kazakhstan's population 4% up during independence years - statistics agency

ASTANA. Dec 13 (Interfax) - The population of Kazakhstan has grown 4.1% during 22 years of independence, State Statistics Agency Chairman Alikhan Smailov said.

"The demographic situation in Kazakhstan has changed drastically over the past 22 years. The population decline trend, which emerged in 1992, stopped in 2002... In the years of independence the population of Kazakhstan has grown 4.1%, by 673,000 residents," he told a Friday press briefing in Astana.

As of November 1, Kazakhstan had a population of 17.125 million, the State Statistics Agency said. The population grew 1.3%, by 215,200 persons, since the beginning of 2013.