As of September 1, 2023, they returned to the historical homeland and received the status of Kandas 16 026 ethnic Kazakhs. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Labor and social protection of the population of Kazakhstan.
In total, since 1991, 1 million 123.2 thousand ethnic Kazakhs returned to the republic.
more than half of the canaches (53.6%) who arrived in Kazakhstan since the beginning of the current year are immigrants from Uzbekistan, 19.6% – from the PRC, 10.9% from Mongolia, 7.8% from Russia, 5.9% – from Turkmenistan and 2.2% – from other countries.
As of September 1 of the current year, the number of ethnic immigrants of working age is 61.4%, 30% of people younger than the able -bodied and 8.5% are pensioners.
Of the canasas of working age, 15.6% have higher education, 34.4% secondary specialized education, 41.2% total secondary education.
Kwota of receiving kandasas in the regions of resettlement for 2023 is 1,925 people. As of September 1, 2023, 1,773
was resettled to the regions of resettlement.
Kandas – ethnic Kazakh and (or) members of his family of Kazakh nationality, who previously not consisted of citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan, who arrived at the historical homeland and received the appropriate status in the manner prescribed by the Law “On the Migration of the Population”.
Faced with demographic problems after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Government of Kazakhstan encourages Kazakhstanis to return to their homeland through the Nurly Kosh program.
It is known that about 5 million Kazakhs live in more than 40 countries, and most of them are a generation of those who left in the 1920-1930s due to political reprisals and poverty during the USSR.