More than 13,000 foreigners work in Kazakhstan
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population reports that 13,743 foreign citizens are currently working legally in Kazakhstan.
Most of them are managers and their deputies (564 and 2,585 permits issued for heads of structural subdivisions, respectively). The majority of the foreign workers are specialists (4,913) and skilled workers (999). Seasonal work and corporate transfers attracted 1,186 and 3,496 people respectively.
Foreign citizens work for 1,744 employers in Kazakhstan (a total workforce of 388,000 Kazakhs, 96.5% of the total number of employees).
Construction (5,390 people), manufacturing industry (1,455 people), mining and quarrying (1,335 people), administrative and auxiliary services (1,305 people), agriculture, forestry, and fishery (1,237 people) employ the largest number of people.
The largest number of foreign workers is from China (4,881 people), Uzbekistan (1,273 people), Türkiye (1,203 people), and India (1,095 people).
Approximately 1 billion tenge was attracted by the Kostanay region worth of foreign investments in the past two years, creating over 1,000 jobs.
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