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Kazakhstan's population has increased by 1.7 percent and reached 17.280 million as of July 1, Chairman of the Statistics Agency Alikhan Smailov said.

"As of July 1 2013, the population of the country amounted to 17.280 million including an urban population of 9.350 million people (54.9 percent) and rural population - 7.677 million (45.1 per cent). In January-June 2013, the population of the whole country increased by 118,800 (0.7 per cent), while the population grew by 234,700 (1.4 per cent) compared to July 1 2012,"Smailov said.

In January-June 2013, the civil registration bodies registered 188,600 births or 0.6 per cent more than in the corresponding period of 2012.

During the reporting period, the number of deaths in the country amounted to 70,400, which is 2.8 per cent less than in January-June 2012.

Also, a surplus of migration was observed. The number of arrivals to the country exceeded the number of emigrants by 655 peoples or 6.5 per cent. In January-June 2013, the number of arrivals in Kazakhstan decreased by 33.5 per cent to 10,663 persons, while the number of emigrants from Kazakhstan decreased by 19.4 per cent to 10,008 people compared with the same period in 2012.

As for inter-regional movements, a positive migration balance was observed in the six regions of the country: Astana (4957), Almaty (2111), Almaty region (3004), Mangistau (943), Atyrau (261) and Pavlodar region (237), Smailov said.