- ISO 3166
KZ- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
18.9M
0%world median 81%100%
93% of 20.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Russian in 23 territories and 201.1M speakers in total; Kazakhstan holds 7% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Russian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ru-KZ).
Plural categories
4
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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