Kazakhstan revealed its top employment regions

In general, dynamics in Kazakhstan’s labor market is positive in 2025. As Qazinform News Agency reports, the number of employed people increased by 106,000 compared to 2024 and attained 9.32 million.
The quantity of both men (4.81 million, up from 4.76 million) and women (4.51 million, up from 4.45 million) grew. 5.91 million employed residents (a year-on-year increase of 161,000) were in urban areas. Meanwhile, there was a slight decline (from 3.47 million to 3.41 million) in rural areas.
Totally, there were 7.17 million salaried employees in the labor market (up from 7.02 million in 2024). Nevertheless, the number of self-employed individuals decreased to 2.15 million from 2.20 million a year earlier.
However, there was a decline of the total number of informally employed residents in 2025 (to 942,000, down from 1.11 million in 2024). Agriculture (389,000) and trade (170,000) had the primary shares of informal workers.
Wholesale and retail trade and automobile repair are the largest employment sectors with 1.56 million workers (up from 1.53 million a year earlier). 1.23 million people worked in education. Then followed industry with 1.16 million. The number of people employed in agriculture decreased to 986,000.
4.37 million employees had higher or postgraduate education. Also, 4.44 million employees underwent technical and vocational training. Concerning age groups, 2.64 million workers referred to the 35–44 category. Meanwhile, 1.08 million were youth aged 16–24.
In terms of total employed residents, Almaty (1.12 million), the Turkistan region (831,000), and Astana (765,000) were the leaders. The Ulytau region demonstrated the lowest employment level (95,500).

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