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Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.5%
male: 99.8%
female: 99.3% (1999 est.)

Population: 15,340,533 (July 2008 est.)

Capital

name: Astana
geographic coordinates: 51 10 N, 71 25 E
time difference: UTC+6 (11 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note:Kazakhstan is divided into two time zones



Oil - consumption: 1.445 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption: 30.58 billion cu m (2007 est.)