Kazakhstan
Republic of Kazakhstan
- Region
- Asia · Central Asia
- Capital
- Astana
- Population
- 20,843,754 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Kazakhstani tenge (KZT)
- Official languages
- Kazakh, Russian
- Spoken languages
- Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 80.1%, Russian 83.7%, English 35.1% (2021 est.)
- Written scripts
- Cyrillic (transitioning to Latin), Cyrillic
- Area
- 2,724,900 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EAEU, IMF, OIC, SCO, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- China , Kyrgyzstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan
Political stability
61 / 100
Economic stability
40 / 100
Population stability
82 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- crude petroleum, gold, radioactive chemicals, refined copper, copper ore (2023)
- Key imports
- garments, cars, broadcasting equipment, vehicle bodies, packaged medicine (2023)
- Natural resources
- major deposits of petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, manganese, chrome ore, nickel, cobalt, copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc
- Critical minerals
- World’s largest uranium producer (~40%).
- Primary route
- Overland rail corridors to China and Russia
- Secondary route
- Caspian and Trans-Caspian ("Middle Corridor") routes to Europe
The xin.bz view
- Kazakhstan is the cycle’s Eurasian pivot: strong grain exports into Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia make it a replacement wheat supplier while constrained Russian Black Sea capacity raises the value of its rail and Caspian logistics.
- It dominates global uranium mining — 2026 guidance around 27,500–29,000 t — and the Middle Corridor through Aktau and Kuryk toward Azerbaijan and Georgia now matters for nuclear-energy security as well as containers and grain.
xin.bz coverage
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.