Almaty — UN urban centre
Almaty: 2,367,611 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #208 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2965; 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: 43.2651, 76.9132. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 891,011 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,045,679 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,073,336 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,122,032 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,165,162 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,225,336 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,382,690 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,567,844 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,862,334 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,173,764 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,367,611 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,623,365 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,856,816 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,038,142 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,213,124 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,373,362 | Projection |
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