Geography - note:
landlocked; Russia leases approximately 6,000 sq km of territory enclosing the Baykonur Cosmodrome; in January 2004, Kazakhstan and Russia extended the lease to 2050
People
Kazakhstan
Population:
15,340,533 (July 2008 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 22.1% (male 1,734,622/female 1,659,723) 15-64 years: 69.6% (male 5,219,983/female 5,463,468) 65 years and over: 8.2% (male 443,483/female 819,254) (2008 est.)
Median age:
total: 29.3 years male: 27.8 years female: 31.1 years (2008 est.)
Population growth rate: