Elderly population share in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (2024)

🧓 60+ years = born before 1963

📉 Lowest: Esil (Astana) — 5%
📈 Highest: Altai (East KZ) — 28%

More elderly in the north, fewer in the south

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