There are over 14,000 foreign workers in Kazakhstan

According to the data of the Kazakh Labor and Special Protection Ministry’s press service from June 1, 2024 cited by Kazinform News Agency, local executive bodies gave work permits to some 13,937 foreign nationals allowing them to legally work in Kazakhstan.
Foreign labor is currently being attracted to Kazakhstan by 1,789 employers. They also employ 443,400 Kazakh citizens which makes 99.2% of the total employees working for them.
The construction sector engages the highest number of foreign employees (4,403 people), then follow agriculture, forestry, and fishery (1,817), administrative and support services (1,684), the mining industry (1,387) and manufacturing (1,275).
China (3,938 people), Uzbekistan (1,919), India (1,145) and Türkiye (1,101) are the countries where most of the labor migrants arrived from.
A quota for attracting foreign specialists to the republic is annually established and distributed by the Labor and Special Protection Ministry in order to protect the domestic labor market. They set the total quota for 2024 at 0.23% of the labor force in the republic, or 22 jobs.

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