Culture of Kazakhstan
The decreasing nature of Kazakhstan's population (.09 percent in 1999) is due, in part, to low birthrates and mass emigration by nonKazakhs, mainly Russians and Germans (Kazakhstan's net migration rate was migrants per 1,000 people in 1999). Given the emigration, Kazakhstan's ethnic make up is everchanging. For 1999 the best estimates were Kazakhs 46 percent, Russians percent ...