Kazakhstan
Republic of Kazakhstan
- Capital
- Astana
- Region
- Central Asia
- Population, 2025
- 21 million
- Currency
- KZT
- Area
- 2,724,900 km²
Across Kazakhstan's 18 priced cities, one person needs about $866 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $752.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
55out of 100
- Purchasing power25%44
- Safety20%55
- Health care15%61
- Climate10%35
- Air quality10%83
- Connectivity10%42
- Cost10%83
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #85
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
33.8
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
8.8
New York = 100
Purchasing power
69.1
New York = 100
One person
$866
A month, rent included
Net salary
$752
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$403
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$14,692
2025
Growth
+6.5%
2025
Unemployment
4.8%
2025
Inflation
11.4%
2025
Life expectancy
74.5 years
2024
Internet users
93%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 14.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 54.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 45.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 2.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #87 worldwide
- 91
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #52 worldwide
- 89
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +11%
Cities in Kazakhstan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Turkistan | 64 | — | — | — | — | 227.1K | Low confidence |
| 2Taldykorgan | 63 | — | — | — | — | 116.6K | Low confidence |
| 3Pavlodar | 61 | 27.7 | $280 | $717 | 117.8 | 329K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 4Oral | 61 | — | — | $1,120 | — | 330K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 5Oskemen | 61 | 31.8 | $347 | $817 | 113.2 | 319.1K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 6Semey | 61 | 24.8 | $538 | — | — | 292.8K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 7Kyzylorda | 60 | 28.0 | $190 | $336 | 62.9 | 354.8K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 8Atyrau | 60 | 33.8 | $526 | $740 | 81.9 | 290.7K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 9Zhezqazghan | 60 | — | — | — | — | 104.4K | Low confidence |
| 10Shymkent | 59 | 30.2 | $345 | $448 | 64.2 | 1.2M | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 11Aktobe | 59 | 29.8 | $310 | $550 | 83.0 | 500.8K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 12Oral (Orál, Uralsk) | 59 | 29.9 | $284 | $439 | 68.5 | 330K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 13Karaganda (Qaraghandy) | 59 | 34.4 | $349 | $752 | 99.2 | 497.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Taraz | 58 | 26.0 | $269 | $280 | 48.6 | 358.2K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 15Kostanay (Kustanay) | 57 | 29.4 | $403 | $664 | 89.9 | 210K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 16Aktau | 57 | 31.9 | $330 | $567 | 80.2 | 147.4K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 17Astana (Nur-Sultan) | 56 | 35.1 | $564 | $866 | 90.7 | 1.5M | High confidence, 99 contributors |
| 18Temirtau | 56 | — | — | — | — | 170.6K | Low confidence |
| 19Kokshetau | 56 | — | — | — | — | 150.6K | Low confidence |
| 20Rudnyy | 56 | — | — | — | — | 124K | Low confidence |
| 21Ekibastuz | 54 | 33.3 | $246 | $336 | 51.4 | 121.5K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 22Qapshaghay | 52 | 31.0 | $442 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 23Qostanay | 52 | 34.9 | $526 | $493 | 53.6 | 210K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 24Petropavl | 51 | 34.2 | $347 | $302 | 40.2 | 200.9K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 25Almaty | 49 | 40.0 | $808 | $852 | 69.1 | 2M | High confidence, 158 contributors |
| 26Zhanaozen | 49 | — | — | — | — | 103.6K | Low confidence |