The urban population in Kazakhstan is the context of global trends and features of urbanization in the country in the late twentieth and early twenty-first of century

Abstract

Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, and its growth rates continue to increase. A big number of large urban agglomerations. According to the Secretary of the United Nations the number of citizens is increased from 2.3 billion to 3.9 billion in 1994. By 2050 it should be grown to 6.3 billion. The degree and rate of urbanization are significant variations on region, country and even individual cities. The development of the urban population in Kazakhstan is the country initially being in line with global trends for all in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries., the city entered a new phase of population growth associated with the transfer of the capital to Astana, Kazakhstan and realization of forced modernization tasks. Key words: urbanization, the urban population, cities, towns, sources of population growth, migration, mechanical growth, natural growth.