Sub-region · UN WPP 2024

Central Asia population

Central Asia population now

85,243,297

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 80,810,163

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 84.9235 million
Median age: 27.8
Aged 65+: 6.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024

male female projection · one cell = 20,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Central Asia in numbers

The UN counts 80,810,163 people in Central Asia in mid-2023, and 1.00% of the world's people. That is 4.6 times its 1950 population of 17.6 million. It covers 5 countries and areas; the largest are Uzbekistan (44.1%), Kazakhstan (25.2%), Tajikistan (12.9%), Turkmenistan (9.1%) and Kyrgyzstan (8.8%).

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 150 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 23.2 in 1950 and 27.6 in 2023; the projection has 41.1 in 2100. 5.9% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 20.6% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Population, mid-2023: 80,810,163
Share of the world, 2023: 1.00%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.85% · +1,468,396 people
Births, 2023: 1,935,243
Deaths, 2023: 490,005
Net migration, 2023: −10,219
Children per woman, 2023: 3.21
Median age, 2023: 27.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 72.7 years
Population, mid-1950: 17,575,681
Projected, mid-2050: 113,612,322
Projected, mid-2100: 149,900,194

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Central Asia, 1950–2100

Central Asia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	17,327,412	654,267	283,349	4.90	53.4
1951	estimate	17,823,950	676,288	291,827	4.89	53.6
1952	estimate	18,327,751	703,790	298,516	4.93	53.9
1953	estimate	18,844,332	734,320	304,699	4.99	54.1
1954	estimate	19,375,382	764,718	310,416	5.05	54.4
1955	estimate	19,928,680	802,067	316,380	5.14	54.6
1956	estimate	20,512,262	843,297	322,584	5.23	54.9
1957	estimate	21,129,749	887,510	329,002	5.33	55.2
1958	estimate	21,784,189	936,000	335,671	5.44	55.5
1959	estimate	22,474,824	974,039	341,678	5.50	55.8
1960	estimate	23,216,467	1,011,473	347,412	5.57	56.1
1961	estimate	24,003,906	1,038,488	352,118	5.60	56.4
1962	estimate	24,847,427	1,060,780	356,191	5.64	56.7
1963	estimate	25,722,234	1,063,469	358,636	5.59	57.0
1964	estimate	26,607,691	1,056,421	359,589	5.52	57.3
1965	estimate	27,494,967	1,046,326	359,770	5.43	57.5
1966	estimate	28,382,703	1,040,514	359,815	5.36	57.8
1967	estimate	29,266,973	1,043,908	360,334	5.30	58.1
1968	estimate	30,163,649	1,039,417	360,871	5.17	58.4
1969	estimate	31,058,646	1,051,487	362,323	5.09	58.7
1970	estimate	31,918,352	1,079,296	365,092	5.07	59.0
1971	estimate	32,760,112	1,109,994	368,384	5.07	59.3
1972	estimate	33,599,332	1,139,129	371,746	5.05	59.6
1973	estimate	34,452,608	1,159,909	374,898	4.98	59.8
1974	estimate	35,301,888	1,178,304	377,852	4.91	60.1
1975	estimate	36,166,369	1,195,735	381,121	4.82	60.4
1976	estimate	37,045,073	1,213,193	384,602	4.71	60.6
1977	estimate	38,040,848	1,233,318	389,978	4.60	60.8
1978	estimate	39,065,994	1,249,746	394,517	4.45	61.1
1979	estimate	40,077,935	1,288,652	399,085	4.37	61.4
1980	estimate	40,909,107	1,329,499	417,286	4.30	61.9
1981	estimate	41,750,327	1,357,581	418,232	4.22	62.2
1982	estimate	42,607,230	1,390,217	415,750	4.17	62.8
1983	estimate	43,494,511	1,440,274	416,310	4.14	63.2
1984	estimate	44,421,726	1,506,826	416,591	4.18	63.6
1985	estimate	45,372,114	1,562,426	415,623	4.20	64.2
1986	estimate	46,378,599	1,608,669	414,173	4.20	64.7
1987	estimate	47,515,130	1,620,584	414,594	4.11	65.0
1988	estimate	48,660,954	1,603,743	417,101	3.95	65.1
1989	estimate	49,787,380	1,588,097	422,730	3.81	65.0
1990	estimate	50,784,432	1,589,363	431,283	3.75	64.9
1991	estimate	51,691,336	1,599,397	440,582	3.73	64.7
1992	estimate	52,650,113	1,576,426	463,333	3.61	63.9
1993	estimate	53,374,115	1,531,881	477,601	3.47	63.3
1994	estimate	53,919,178	1,480,261	475,335	3.33	63.5
1995	estimate	54,277,377	1,447,101	475,489	3.24	63.5
1996	estimate	54,725,717	1,357,232	476,078	3.02	63.4
1997	estimate	55,036,745	1,307,573	469,890	2.89	63.7
1998	estimate	55,216,781	1,265,602	465,869	2.79	63.8
1999	estimate	55,338,036	1,223,064	459,133	2.68	64.1
2000	estimate	55,863,983	1,187,626	456,638	2.56	64.4
2001	estimate	56,497,447	1,185,262	454,663	2.52	64.8
2002	estimate	57,143,702	1,199,607	452,972	2.52	65.3
2003	estimate	57,804,388	1,219,529	451,557	2.51	65.7
2004	estimate	58,476,615	1,266,783	453,017	2.56	66.1
2005	estimate	59,185,765	1,289,044	456,261	2.55	66.4
2006	estimate	59,911,034	1,342,764	457,689	2.59	66.8
2007	estimate	60,668,733	1,422,728	455,985	2.68	67.3
2008	estimate	61,501,494	1,497,672	451,816	2.75	67.8
2009	estimate	62,393,008	1,530,850	446,354	2.73	68.4
2010	estimate	63,405,000	1,555,935	443,965	2.71	68.9
2011	estimate	64,456,148	1,571,676	442,568	2.68	69.3
2012	estimate	65,527,723	1,603,236	441,956	2.68	69.8
2013	estimate	66,646,592	1,660,524	442,820	2.74	70.2
2014	estimate	67,821,250	1,724,275	444,635	2.82	70.6
2015	estimate	69,055,616	1,745,888	445,762	2.84	70.9
2016	estimate	70,334,399	1,741,440	446,609	2.82	71.3
2017	estimate	71,630,203	1,728,275	448,189	2.79	71.6
2018	estimate	72,938,327	1,799,216	452,758	2.90	71.9
2019	estimate	74,283,285	1,846,091	459,507	2.99	72.0
2020	estimate	75,721,118	1,904,799	536,465	3.10	70.6
2021	estimate	77,142,584	1,960,522	553,476	3.21	70.5
2022	estimate	78,590,874	1,933,120	481,826	3.19	72.2
2023	estimate	80,092,661	1,935,243	490,005	3.21	72.7
2024	estimate	81,527,665	1,906,596	492,847	3.18	72.8
2025	projection	82,924,065	1,872,880	503,072	3.14	72.9
2026	projection	84,271,531	1,843,639	513,902	3.10	73.1
2027	projection	85,575,556	1,822,650	525,333	3.06	73.2
2028	projection	86,848,253	1,807,848	537,084	3.02	73.3
2029	projection	88,095,411	1,800,173	549,230	2.97	73.5
2030	projection	89,321,976	1,799,393	562,488	2.94	73.6
2031	projection	90,525,723	1,801,445	576,270	2.90	73.7
2032	projection	91,711,112	1,807,359	590,200	2.86	73.9
2033	projection	92,895,522	1,818,120	605,216	2.83	74.0
2034	projection	94,067,715	1,832,169	620,647	2.80	74.1
2035	projection	95,234,489	1,849,085	636,200	2.77	74.3
2036	projection	96,400,954	1,867,833	651,931	2.74	74.4
2037	projection	97,572,670	1,887,174	667,798	2.71	74.5
2038	projection	98,740,173	1,907,552	683,841	2.69	74.7
2039	projection	99,916,334	1,931,881	699,620	2.66	74.8
2040	projection	101,096,817	1,956,151	715,719	2.64	74.9
2041	projection	102,292,883	1,982,505	731,417	2.62	75.1
2042	projection	103,493,669	2,006,191	746,981	2.60	75.2
2043	projection	104,703,417	2,026,570	761,904	2.58	75.3
2044	projection	105,914,797	2,042,359	776,537	2.56	75.5
2045	projection	107,129,936	2,052,402	790,896	2.53	75.6
2046	projection	108,341,277	2,056,900	804,637	2.51	75.7
2047	projection	109,539,073	2,054,691	818,412	2.49	75.9
2048	projection	110,730,319	2,049,571	831,349	2.47	76.0
2049	projection	111,903,373	2,044,125	843,970	2.45	76.1
2050	projection	113,048,271	2,035,302	855,784	2.43	76.3
2051	projection	114,176,372	2,024,857	867,453	2.41	76.4
2052	projection	115,287,788	2,015,206	879,138	2.39	76.5
2053	projection	116,382,688	2,006,154	890,712	2.37	76.7
2054	projection	117,456,755	1,997,415	902,183	2.36	76.8
2055	projection	118,505,051	1,989,165	913,575	2.34	77.0
2056	projection	119,536,487	1,981,439	924,763	2.33	77.1
2057	projection	120,548,303	1,973,597	936,182	2.31	77.3
2058	projection	121,533,913	1,965,609	947,640	2.29	77.4
2059	projection	122,503,537	1,959,128	959,478	2.28	77.5
2060	projection	123,455,778	1,953,195	971,648	2.26	77.7
2061	projection	124,386,652	1,947,450	984,177	2.25	77.8
2062	projection	125,296,338	1,944,706	996,661	2.23	77.9
2063	projection	126,193,003	1,941,655	1,009,076	2.22	78.1
2064	projection	127,078,204	1,939,997	1,022,429	2.21	78.2
2065	projection	127,943,069	1,938,494	1,035,222	2.19	78.3
2066	projection	128,793,049	1,938,134	1,047,487	2.18	78.5
2067	projection	129,630,537	1,938,459	1,060,302	2.16	78.6
2068	projection	130,449,081	1,938,660	1,072,433	2.15	78.8
2069	projection	131,259,419	1,939,302	1,084,611	2.14	78.9
2070	projection	132,069,691	1,940,438	1,096,048	2.13	79.1
2071	projection	132,862,563	1,941,137	1,107,027	2.12	79.2
2072	projection	133,645,640	1,940,271	1,117,790	2.11	79.3
2073	projection	134,410,139	1,938,127	1,128,125	2.10	79.5
2074	projection	135,160,776	1,934,978	1,137,880	2.09	79.6
2075	projection	135,909,427	1,932,080	1,146,795	2.08	79.8
2076	projection	136,647,604	1,928,274	1,154,819	2.07	79.9
2077	projection	137,374,633	1,923,120	1,162,172	2.06	80.0
2078	projection	138,094,625	1,917,120	1,168,362	2.05	80.2
2079	projection	138,797,825	1,909,662	1,173,798	2.04	80.3
2080	projection	139,472,522	1,902,820	1,178,974	2.04	80.5
2081	projection	140,142,462	1,894,636	1,183,254	2.03	80.6
2082	projection	140,800,587	1,885,484	1,187,517	2.02	80.7
2083	projection	141,431,097	1,874,122	1,191,574	2.02	80.9
2084	projection	142,072,486	1,864,117	1,195,648	2.01	81.0
2085	projection	142,695,610	1,852,555	1,199,383	2.00	81.1
2086	projection	143,295,755	1,841,858	1,203,965	2.00	81.3
2087	projection	143,878,815	1,830,886	1,208,837	1.99	81.4
2088	projection	144,453,261	1,820,095	1,216,017	1.98	81.5
2089	projection	144,999,891	1,809,642	1,224,209	1.98	81.7
2090	projection	145,532,580	1,798,460	1,233,348	1.97	81.8
2091	projection	146,042,844	1,788,015	1,244,126	1.96	82.0
2092	projection	146,536,240	1,779,453	1,255,730	1.95	82.1
2093	projection	147,008,005	1,771,295	1,268,935	1.95	82.2
2094	projection	147,466,181	1,763,842	1,283,725	1.94	82.3
2095	projection	147,910,271	1,757,162	1,299,707	1.94	82.5
2096	projection	148,330,782	1,750,913	1,316,250	1.93	82.6
2097	projection	148,725,996	1,744,231	1,333,636	1.93	82.7
2098	projection	149,094,085	1,737,967	1,351,387	1.92	82.9
2099	projection	149,434,216	1,731,149	1,370,601	1.92	83.0
2100	projection	149,752,920	1,724,687	1,389,036	1.91	83.1

AGG · members

Countries and areas in Central Asia

Central Asia: member countries and areas, population mid-2023, share of the group and projected mid-2100
#	Country or area	Mid-2023	Share	Mid-2100, projected
1	Uzbekistan	35,652,307	44.1%	74,350,006
2	Kazakhstan	20,330,104	25.2%	33,672,180
3	Tajikistan	10,389,798	12.9%	20,201,582
4	Turkmenistan	7,364,438	9.1%	9,946,598
5	Kyrgyzstan	7,073,515	8.8%	11,729,827

Show the numbers: Central Asia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Central Asia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	947,580	888,864
1	960,900	901,470
2	975,447	914,685
3	981,370	919,924
4	987,385	925,091
5	977,078	917,078
6	947,256	892,250
7	922,038	869,972
8	895,358	845,530
9	878,552	832,900
10	878,181	836,952
11	870,299	831,502
12	841,340	805,688
13	805,272	772,174
14	780,106	747,628
15	771,448	738,752
16	760,909	727,882
17	736,355	703,634
18	697,860	666,331
19	651,330	621,466
20	610,867	586,695
21	584,432	567,401
22	566,784	553,852
23	557,450	546,792
24	558,082	547,486
25	563,860	552,791
26	573,544	562,942
27	584,832	574,985
28	600,246	590,287
29	620,794	609,864
30	640,817	629,012
31	653,266	640,968
32	663,225	650,286
33	674,650	661,026
34	682,180	667,734
35	680,212	665,462
36	668,190	654,761
37	657,338	645,310
38	651,644	641,026
39	641,632	632,920
40	620,568	613,968
41	592,374	588,386
42	561,600	560,069
43	532,024	532,822
44	507,970	510,915
45	488,832	493,817
46	470,525	478,082
47	451,826	462,440
48	438,220	451,942
49	426,991	444,982
50	415,554	437,578
51	404,725	429,131
52	392,957	419,536
53	381,387	410,133
54	370,161	400,583
55	358,828	390,736
56	346,302	380,240
57	333,938	370,283
58	324,582	363,048
59	317,188	357,816
60	311,263	354,778
61	304,632	351,470
62	294,451	343,086
63	283,933	334,934
64	272,336	327,126
65	257,738	315,684
66	239,974	300,771
67	219,685	282,565
68	199,553	263,428
69	180,394	244,475
70	162,564	226,129
71	145,496	207,683
72	129,226	189,940
73	114,524	173,649
74	101,292	158,208
75	89,733	144,211
76	75,497	127,700
77	61,714	109,793
78	51,382	94,312
79	41,250	78,049
80	31,932	61,092
81	24,852	48,162
82	21,094	42,667
83	19,670	43,266
84	18,776	45,301
85	17,309	44,990
86	15,253	42,144
87	12,978	37,852
88	10,526	32,080
89	7,992	25,327
90	5,690	18,647
91	3,870	13,077
92	2,602	9,188
93	1,803	6,685
94	1,289	4,975
95	918	3,686
96	630	2,662
97	412	1,824
98	246	1,158
99	133	676
100+	118	818

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Central Asia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Central Asia

In Central Asia the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 50,565,100 of them.

100 aged 15–64

50 children

9 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Central Asia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Central Asia gains 15,908 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 35–39, at 8,046 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 1,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 216,446 (1968); its biggest loss, 678,487 (1998).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Central Asia

Of every 100 babies born in Central Asia in 2023, 5 had a mother under 20, 83 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 12 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 6 under 20 and 22 aged 35 or older.

1950
6 · 72 · 22

2023
5 · 83 · 12

2050 · projected
6 · 81 · 13

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 1,935,243
Average age when women have a baby: 27.6 years; 30.0 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 30; 46 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Central Asia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	91	95	75	50	53	54
15–19	39,190	74,194	83,469	89,424	113,145	79,910
20–24	215,447	407,345	473,881	608,485	639,395	357,056
25–29	162,871	288,353	351,480	598,289	576,480	445,989
30–34	94,169	174,662	187,945	411,168	432,008	477,554
35–39	91,773	170,984	72,798	192,219	230,611	302,550
40–44	40,647	66,837	16,595	33,637	39,537	53,187
45–49	9,613	12,630	1,183	1,866	3,639	7,745
50–54	466	635	200	105	434	642
All babies	654,267	1,195,735	1,187,626	1,935,243	2,035,302	1,724,687

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

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Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The 5 countries listed were summed and checked against the UN's total for every year. The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.