Astana — UN urban centre
Astana: 1,065,387 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #481 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1705; territory: Kazakhstan (KAZ). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 51.1663, 71.4338. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 234,644 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 264,839 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 278,174 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 287,706 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 302,055 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 352,870 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 522,898 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 615,027 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 797,376 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,041,971 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,065,387 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,079,730 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,088,357 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,097,692 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,103,899 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,110,354 | Projection |
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