- ISO 3166
KZ- Primary locale
ru-KZ- Currency
- KZT · Kazakhstani Tenge
- Region
- CIS
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has 20.3M people, and 18.9M of them are online. Russian is the most widely spoken language at 72%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Russian and Kazakh are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ru-KZ.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
18.9M
0%world median 81%100%
93% of 20.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$14,692
Higher than 59% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
87%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Russian 72% · Kazakh 64% · English 15%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
417
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ru-KZ, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
4
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Cyrillic
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 апреля 2026 г.
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 ₸
1,234.56 in KZT · Kazakhstani Tenge
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation