On demographic situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan for January-September 2011

/IRBIS, November 16, 2011/ - The population as of October 1, 2011 by the current data was 16,615.1 thousand people, including urban - 9,073.8 thousand (54.6%), rural - 7,541.3 thousand (45.4%), reported today the Republic of Kazakhstan Agency on Statistics. Compared with the beginning of the year, the population of the whole country has increased by 173.1 thousand, or 1.1%. Natural population growth in January-September this year amounted to 170.6 thousand people (in January-September 2010 - 164.8 people). The overall rate of natural increase of population per 1,000 people was 13.7 (13.5). During January-September this year, Civil Registry Offices recorded 280.4 thousand (274.5 thousand) of births, 2.2% more than in January-September 2010. During this period, 144.5 thousand boys and 135.9 thousand girls were born or 106 boys to 100 girls. In comparison with January-September 2010 the 2.2% more boys were born, girls - 2.1%. The total fertility rate has remained at the same period last year and was 22.6 births per 1,000 people. The number of deaths in the country for the first 9 months of this year amounted to 109.8 thousand (109.7 thousand) people, including 60.5 thousand men and 49.3 thousand women, or 1,227 men to 1,000 women. In comparison with January-September 2010 amount of deaths of men decreased by 0.6%, and women - increased by 0.8%. Among the main causes of death of the population on the first place are cardiovascular diseases - 37.6% (45.3%). The number of deaths from accidents, poisonings, and injuries totaled 12.8 thousand (13.3 thousand), of them from the killing - 1.2 thousand (1.1 thousand), suicide - 2.7 thousand (2.8 th) and traffic accidents - 2.4 thousand (2.4 thousand) people. The overall rate of deaths per 1000 people was 8.9 (9.1). 4,197 (4,655) children who died at the age less than 1 year were registered, of which 2,395 (2,705) boys and 1,802 (1,950) for girls. The infant mortality rate was 15.0 (17.3) deaths per 1,000 live births. The main cause of infant mortality are conditions originating in the perinatal period, of which in January-September this year, died 2,458 (2,801) infants, or 58.6% (60.2%) of the total number of deaths among infants. The number of marriages in January-September of this year increased by 8.8% and was 115,832 (in January-September 2010 - 106,457), the overall marriage rate per 1,000 inhabitants was 9.3 (9.1). The number of divorces also increased by 6.5% and amounted to 33,319 (31,284), the overall divorce rate per 1,000 inhabitants was 2.7 (2.6). In January-September of this year there was positive net migration, amounting to 2,480 (9,322) people. In comparison with January-September 2010, the number who arrived in Kazakhstan decreased by 7.0%, while the number of departures from Kazakhstan increased by 24.5%. The main migration exchange of the country came with the CIS states. Number of migrants who moved within the country decreased by 3.4%. For inter-regional movements surplus of population migration was observed in 4 regions of the country, among them the biggest in size in Astana (22.7 thousand) and Almaty (16.6 thousand). [2011-11-16]