Population of Kyrgyzstan increases

Bishkek, Apr. 15, 2019. / Kabar /. The population of Kyrgyzstan increased for the year by 132 thousand 770 people, says the latest calculations of the National Statistics Committee.
The total population of the republic at the beginning of this year was 6 million 389.5 thousand. At the same time, the rural population is almost twice the number of urban residents. They make 4 million 215.9 thousand people. The number of urban residents to the beginning of the year amounted to 2 million 173.6 thousand
The most densely populated cities in Kyrgyzstan are still Bishkek and Osh. The resident population of the capital and its suburban areas amounted to 1 million 27.1 thousand. The population of the southern capital makes 299.5 thousand people.
The most densely populated region of the republic is still Osh oblast - 1 million. 341.9 thousand inhabitants, where the urban population makes 103 thousand people, and the rural population - 1 million 238.9 thousand.
Further Jalal-Abad oblast with a population of 1 million 214.4 thousand (urban - 263.8 thousand, rural - 950.6 thousand). The population of Chui oblast is close to a million mark - 941.1 thousand people, where 169 thousand live in cities and 772.1 thousand in villages.
The population of Issyk-Kul oblast was 489.8 thousand people, Naryn - 287 thousand and Talas - 263.5 thousand inhabitants.
In addition, the committee carried out calculations on the national constituent of the population of the republic. Most Kyrgyz residents are Kyrgyz - 73.5% (4 million 695 thousand 646 people). Then the Uzbeks - 940 thousand 628 people, or 14.7% of the total population and Russians - 940 thousand 628 people, or 5.5% of all residents of the country.
Since 2009, the number of other nationalities remains unchanged: Dungans (1.1%), Uygurs (0.9%), Tajiks (0.9%), Turks (0.7%), Kazakhs (0.6%), Tatars (0 , 4%), Azerbaijanis (0.4%), Koreans (0.3%), Ukrainians (0.2%) and Germans (0.1%), the number of other nationalities was 0.7%.