Check-out added 98, 000 more to the census list

ASTANA. March 18. KAZINFORM. /Narymbek Ismagulov/ The second phase of the National Population Census 2009 resulted in 16, 402, 861 citizens.

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The check-out in regions and towns during March 7-16 resulted in 98, 021 more people in the register. ?Today the population of Kazakhstan counts 16, 402, 861 . The urban population is 50.4% , rural ? 49.6%; 47.9% are males and 52.1% are females?, Vice Chairman of Kazakhstan?s Statistics Agency Nurman Bayanov stated. ?The exact number of population will be reported in September 2009?, he added.