Astana. Kazakhstan Today - The population of Kazakhstan, as of January 1, 2010, taking into account population census of 2009, has been 16 million 196 thousand 800 people. The chairman of the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan, Alihan Smailov, informed, the agency reports.

The share of Kazakh population, as of the beginning of 2010, has been 63.6 %, Russian - 23.3 %, Uzbek - 2.9 %, Ukrainian - 2 %, the Uigur - 1.4 %, Tatar - 1.2 %, German - 1.1 %, and other ethnos - 4.5 %.