The Booming Demographics of Kazakhstan

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @Quaristice
    @Quaristice 6 месяцев назад +567

    I’m from Western Europe and live in Kazakhstan right now, and it’s a truly amazing country if you have kids. I’ve got two children and whenever we go into a restaurant there are play areas for the kids. There are parks and playgrounds everywhere. It’s so nice to walk around the city and see families with lots of kids. The future belongs to those who show up, and westerners and East Asians aren’t showing up.

    • @longiusaescius2537
      @longiusaescius2537 6 месяцев назад +6

      Interesting

    • @nebojsag.5871
      @nebojsag.5871 6 месяцев назад +25

      Wrong.
      Climate change will obliterate global agriculture, especially in the global South, causing mass famine and billions of climate refugees to flood into the global north. We will be forced to transition to indoor growing techniques like the Dutch are developing now, except that this will be immensely energy intensive, causing humans to use even more fossil fuels.
      Furthermore, automation is making the majority of people permanently unemployable. As in, by the end of the century and almost certainly sooner than that, there will be absolutely no task that a machine can't perform infinitely better than a human, except maybe have sex, but even there, it's possible I'm wrong.
      Ageing and all other diseases will be cured and humans will essentially become technologically capable of achieving biological immortality.
      The task of this century's politics is to ensure that the infinite wealth and technological omnipotence are democratized among the masses, and that animals are also liberate from suffering, instead of letting billionaires create a howling eternal hell on earth where they rape and torture the rest of us to death for fun, before cloning new slaves to torture and rape to assuage their intolerable boredom.

    • @harpsdesire4200
      @harpsdesire4200 6 месяцев назад +4

      Nope 4b movement is already starting there

    • @vorynrosethorn903
      @vorynrosethorn903 6 месяцев назад +56

      I preferred it when the death cultists went on about the imminent return of Christ rather than making up predictions about the weather.

    • @nebojsag.5871
      @nebojsag.5871 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@harpsdesire4200 What the hell is a 4b movement?

  • @diyartokmurzin7154
    @diyartokmurzin7154 6 месяцев назад +495

    Kazakhs have the most strict cousin marriages taboo. One cannot marry any 7th cousin, meaning no common ancestors in 7 generations. Kazakhs also have sophisticated genealogy traditions allowing to comply with the taboo. When I was a student I met a girl, when began dating her I asked what ancestry she has. After finding out her both parents belong to the same ancestry as my parents have (the same medieval clans) and they lived in the same region as my grandfather, I changed her number in my phone to "sister" and we still remain very good friends. "Kazakh style friendzone"

    • @ratzpat6710
      @ratzpat6710 6 месяцев назад +47

      Personally, I think 7 generations is a bit of an overkill. I know that 2nd and 3rd cousins is a certain No-go zone, but beyond that the chance of genetic deviations are same as background. So, essentially it was Esim khan's decision to politically tie up Kazak tribes together by banning intra-tribal marriages, that ruined your date 😄

    • @diyartokmurzin7154
      @diyartokmurzin7154 6 месяцев назад +77

      @@ratzpat6710 Zhetï ata is certainly the most strict rule in Kazakh traditions. That is true, Yesim (Esim) khan's old ways was a cornerstone set of laws that cemented the Kazakh people identity. Yes, the traditions recommend to marry women from different clans but not just for nationbuilding, but also for genetic reasons. A very good negative example is early Ghengizids who always married women from the same family, the same clan, of the Khongirats. This meant they formally kept no-cousin marriage taboo on male lineage but were repeatedly marrying cousins on female lineage. Oelun was an aunt to Borte. The Kazakh tradition to avoid marriages of the same clan females ensures no cousins marriages on female line

    • @chachachi-hh1ks
      @chachachi-hh1ks 6 месяцев назад +10

      7 generations? This is just impossible. Who and how do you think were keeping such accurate genealogy long before DNA testing for whole population of nomads? No one.

    • @Ahmed-iam
      @Ahmed-iam 6 месяцев назад +59

      ​@chachachi-hh1ks you can listen to podcasts by zhaksylyk. He is a historian who is also well versed in studies of kazakh genetics. He says our nomadic culture is the reason, most things were kept around by word of mouth whilst books were kept for more ancient history. Hence you get this constant remembering of ancestorial lineages. I am Kazakh the more I grow the more I become a traditional Kazakh in this specific way. I wanna learn more about lineages, regional cultures, know my ancestry. For example I am from Argyn tribe, of his son Kuandyk. I think I can trace my lineage potentially all the way back to him.

    • @diyartokmurzin7154
      @diyartokmurzin7154 6 месяцев назад +71

      @@chachachi-hh1ks memorising seven male ancestors of a single male lineage is actually not so difficult. Memorising all the male and female ancestors in seven generations is indeed nearly impossible. I can name seven male lineage ancestors and all the female and male ancestors in four generations including their subethnic affiliations. My male lineage ancestry also belongs to Argyn sub-ethnic group Atygay clan that began from Qarakhodja bey of the Golden horde

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 6 месяцев назад +1586

    The secret is ...
    Kazakhstan is the greatest country on the Earth. All other countries are run by little girls...

    • @bluedragontoybash2463
      @bluedragontoybash2463 6 месяцев назад +101

      very nice !

    • @yamsyamsevolution9712
      @yamsyamsevolution9712 6 месяцев назад +207

      Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium. All other countries have inferior potassium.

    • @adrianalexanderveidt350
      @adrianalexanderveidt350 6 месяцев назад +33

      I agree brother. Greetings from Argentina. Your country is amazing

    • @dantakeoff
      @dantakeoff 6 месяцев назад +11

      Awawawiwa!

    • @Alexey-qs6nr
      @Alexey-qs6nr 6 месяцев назад +28

      google the most powerful nation you'll get KAZAKH

  • @stanisawzokiewski3308
    @stanisawzokiewski3308 6 месяцев назад +388

    I think the family culture is a huge benefit.
    If your recieve help from your parent while starting your own family, and then still go to higher education, that seems to be much conductive for fertility, than being expecter to move out as soon as possible, get higher education, then career, and only then maybe a family of your own.

    • @Quaristice
      @Quaristice 6 месяцев назад +17

      But that’s what it’s like in East Asia also and they have the lowest fertility rates on earth.
      You’re thinking that must be the cause because that’s what it’s like in the west, but there is no connection. It must be something else.

    • @stanisawzokiewski3308
      @stanisawzokiewski3308 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@Quaristice i didnt say its the only thing. I said its a huge benefit.

    • @Quaristice
      @Quaristice 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@stanisawzokiewski3308 but it’s of no benefit at all to East Asians so how is it a “huge benefit”?

    • @stanisawzokiewski3308
      @stanisawzokiewski3308 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@traumvonhaiti Makes perfect sense.

    • @stanisawzokiewski3308
      @stanisawzokiewski3308 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@Quaristice Does a house stand on sand?
      No
      Can a house have no roof?
      No
      Can a roof stand with no supports?
      No
      There is layers to everything.
      Its not 1s and 0s

  • @andrewrogers3067
    @andrewrogers3067 6 месяцев назад +1160

    Virgin Eastern Europe: Communism has ruined us, our demographic spiral is hurting us and our people won’t have children.
    Chad Kazakhstan: Communism is weak, we do not die, we multiply.

    • @jostnamane3951
      @jostnamane3951 6 месяцев назад +153

      I mean... they gotta make up for the population loss during the Kazakh famines of 1930-1933.

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 6 месяцев назад +110

      @@jostnamane3951Ukraine has never recovered from the famine at the same time

    • @andrewrogers3067
      @andrewrogers3067 6 месяцев назад +18

      @@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986A less bad famine no less

    • @VerminaeSupremacy
      @VerminaeSupremacy 6 месяцев назад +19

      @@andrewrogers3067 massive deportations resulting in ethnicity losing ties to their roots and moving elsewhere after the collapse of USSR might have something to do with it. If their home communities were a bit more tightly knit or countries could afford it, they could return like Crimean Tatars returned to Crimea, Germans repatriated to Germany, Jews to Israel, Koreans (who were also deported to Kazakhstan) to South Korea. But no. And Ukrainians and Poles are now two ethnicities with huge diaspora in the West, because they had good levels of education to shoot higher with their nations starting out among the poorest in Europe in the 90s

    • @thearpox7873
      @thearpox7873 6 месяцев назад +15

      @@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 The issue with being industrialized, is that that system takes a lot of effort to maintain.
      So it is a lot easier ironically to recover from disasters if you are dirt poor than if you now have a built-up area now falling apart and a lot of social obligations you must meet with less people.

  • @TarlanT
    @TarlanT 6 месяцев назад +740

    Fun fact:
    In Kazakh we have saying - “I’m Kazakh, I died and rose back a thousand times.”

    • @kadirbozkus-ss3sm
      @kadirbozkus-ss3sm 6 месяцев назад +56

      Intresting thats also the motto of the Turkish armed forces. but we use it as: ''We die as one, we rose thousand'' wonder if there is any connection?

    • @liroi7318
      @liroi7318 6 месяцев назад +16

      ​@@kadirbozkus-ss3sm it might be

    • @themaskedarabrussian
      @themaskedarabrussian 6 месяцев назад +4

      Although, they never existed before the 16th century. So it's like twice a year.

    • @TarlanT
      @TarlanT 6 месяцев назад +31

      @@kadirbozkus-ss3smCould be something from deep Turkic roots. We were always outnumbered.

    • @TarlanT
      @TarlanT 6 месяцев назад +36

      @@themaskedarabrussianWritten form of our language (Turkic) is 1500 years old.
      Göktürk Empire and Golden Horde (which subjigated even Russia) is our lineage.
      So it’s not twice a year.
      It’s every 2-2.5 years 😜

  • @Random-me6br
    @Random-me6br 6 месяцев назад +201

    Another reason why Central Asian countries have high fertility, is a fact that grandparents ready to take burden of parenting from young couples. For example when I was born, my parents were in their 20th, and just started their careers. As result my grandparents took me and until start of school i lived with my grandparents. It was same for several of my cousins and friends. Young couple were not forced to chose between parenthood and career. And now one of my cousins who also was raised by grandparents has her own child and her parents are raising her while she and her husband are studying in Germany. It is basically like loan your parent ready to raise your first or second children, while you build your life, but it means that in future you need to repay by raising your oldest grandchildren.

    • @martneb
      @martneb 6 месяцев назад +32

      It would definitely help a lot in the current age with the number of elderly growing larger: They already have experience raising a child, usually have time to spare and it gives the young parents some leeway when it comes to taking care of their child themselves

    • @idriz3380
      @idriz3380 6 месяцев назад +7

      That's the case in Ukraine as well, but it's nowhere near demographically blooming (before war, I mean). That's not the reason.

    • @TennessisET
      @TennessisET 6 месяцев назад +5

      I'm also grannies' daughter ))))))

    • @DarkMeyer777
      @DarkMeyer777 6 месяцев назад +2

      This is the only loan that I would love to take

    • @Gamerguy_69420
      @Gamerguy_69420 6 месяцев назад +12

      Isn't this how peasant family functioned for centuries? Like its a notorious stereotype in the US atleast, that the elderly rn are rich and bored. Millennial and late gen z are young, poor, and stressed/overworked. I understand it's nieve to this- but I think that this stratification of stress between generations can help foster the fertility replacement rate to a much better position, if elders step up to the plate and help.

  • @Willit1985
    @Willit1985 6 месяцев назад +138

    Being one of the many Germans who once lived in Kazakhstan and moved to Germany in the 90‘s im happy to see Kazakhstan triving. Thank you for this interesting video and your research!

    • @Куаныш-ч8с
      @Куаныш-ч8с 6 месяцев назад +19

      Мы скучаем по вам , приезжайте в Казахстан , будем рады. 🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🫂✊

    • @Willit1985
      @Willit1985 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Куаныш-ч8с спасибо! я на самом деле я уже давно планирую посетить Казахстан. скорей всего в след. год у меня это получится. очень жду

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +9

      Much love🇰🇿❤️🇩🇪

    • @Willit1985
      @Willit1985 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@Куаныш-ч8с спасибо, я на самом деле уже давно хочу посетить Казахстан и места где я росс.

    • @jirislavicek9954
      @jirislavicek9954 6 месяцев назад +13

      I think you might be moving back to Kazakhstan soon. Soft version of islam in Kazakhstan is more bearable than radical Islam in Germany 🤣

  • @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146
    @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 6 месяцев назад +287

    Israel and Kazahstan are demographic exceptions. Israel is a cube and Kazahstan is rectangle in the countryballs universe while most of the other countries are spheres. Coincidence? I think not!

    • @scottanos9981
      @scottanos9981 6 месяцев назад +29

      It's all coming together...😳

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +14

      Both are non-christian

    • @wazukyan7696
      @wazukyan7696 6 месяцев назад +1

      What do you mean ?

    • @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146
      @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 6 месяцев назад +11

      @@АлишерОрынбек-б8д All Muslim countries have lower fertility rate than 20yrs,did you even watched the video?

    • @bovver93
      @bovver93 6 месяцев назад +8

      Dont put this country together please in one sentence, thx

  • @lexkoal8657
    @lexkoal8657 6 месяцев назад +229

    Kazakhstan seems like a really cool country, hope everything goes well for them

    • @TennessisET
      @TennessisET 6 месяцев назад +12

      thank you. I pray that your country will prosper and grow day by day.

    • @Coolname-xx1yy
      @Coolname-xx1yy 6 месяцев назад +13

      Corruption is biggest problem

    • @illbebeck8655
      @illbebeck8655 6 месяцев назад

      Thanks bro❤

    • @Gvozdodyor
      @Gvozdodyor 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Coolname-xx1yythats true . I live in a small town in central Kazakhstan and lately there have been appearing loads of billboards about corruption :,(

    • @Coolname-xx1yy
      @Coolname-xx1yy 5 месяцев назад

      @@Gvozdodyor can you name it?

  • @jostnamane3951
    @jostnamane3951 6 месяцев назад +397

    Uzbekistan is another example of this phenomenon:
    TFR 2012: 2.34
    TFR 2020: 3.06
    TFR 2021: 3.27
    TFR 2022: 3.40
    TFR 2023: 3.50
    Economically, it is not as rich as Kazakhstan but not as poor either. The poorest country in Central Asia, Tajikistan, has a stagnant fertility trend. All these Central Asian countries are bucking the global trend. I wonder why?

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 6 месяцев назад +60

      Afghanistan is the poorest country in central Asia and has the highest fertility rate in Asia 4.3

    • @RuslanMusin99
      @RuslanMusin99 6 месяцев назад +119

      Я сейчас живу в Узбекистане.
      Думаю причины такие:
      1)дешевое жилье в деревне. Дети остаются с родителями. Построить +1комнату дешевле чем 1 новый дом.
      2)много хорошей и дешевой еды. Ты сможешь прокормить много детей.
      3)родственники помогают присматривать за детьми

    • @zulthyr1852
      @zulthyr1852 6 месяцев назад +97

      @@RuslanMusin99
      let me translate to English:
      I currently live in Uzbekistan.
      I think the reasons are as follows:
      1. In rural areas, housing is cheap. Children stay with their parents. Adding a room into a preexisting house is cheaper than buying a new home entirely.
      2. There exists a lot of good and cheap food, with which you could feed a lot of children.
      3. Relatives are involved in looking after children.

    • @jostnamane3951
      @jostnamane3951 6 месяцев назад +38

      @@baha3alshamari152 If you count it as part of Central Asia, then of course. Btw, the 4.3 figure is speculative; we simply don't have proper data for birth rates in Afghanistan at this moment. According to the last nationwide survey conducted by the DHS program in 2015, Afghanistan's fertility rate was 5.3 (2014-2015). According to the Population Reference Bureau, the fertility rate in 2023 is 5.4, which indicates an increase from 2015. Proper adjustments for all years can only be made when there's sufficient evidence.

    • @vos2693
      @vos2693 6 месяцев назад +47

      Religion, that's the secret.

  • @kbelyavs
    @kbelyavs 6 месяцев назад +86

    In my opinion it’s their culture and positive attitude towards children. They respect women not about her income but amount of children she has

    • @krineq7058
      @krineq7058 6 месяцев назад +17

      Beshymbayev honest reaction:

    • @qazaqbalasy916
      @qazaqbalasy916 6 месяцев назад +1

      Absolutely valid my friend

    • @karlsagan6183
      @karlsagan6183 5 месяцев назад +6

      No , they do not respect women , even if she gave birth. I'm saying as a person who growed up and lives in Kazakhstan

    • @MahmudHasan-me
      @MahmudHasan-me 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@karlsagan6183just shut up woke feminist.😊

  • @vorynrosethorn903
    @vorynrosethorn903 6 месяцев назад +158

    I recommend the Japanese manga 'A Bride's Tale' which is set in historical central Asia and contains a lot of information about the culture, dress and social systems that are not widely available in English. It also has some of the most beautiful art, as the author has a very keen eye for detail and an intricate style.

    • @karczameczka
      @karczameczka 6 месяцев назад +19

      I love the manga! It's so cool that a japaneese mangaka is some enthnologic freak like I 😂 He/She Just covering diferent region.
      Greating from PL ^_^

    • @sboinkthelegday3892
      @sboinkthelegday3892 6 месяцев назад +10

      Altair: A Record of Battles and Maria the Virgin Witch are also detail-savvy depictions of history in semi-fictionalized settings, going through some historically significant progressions, like the Lutheran reformation.

    • @vorynrosethorn903
      @vorynrosethorn903 6 месяцев назад +15

      The author is female, she also made Emma, a romance about a Victorian maid, which shows a great deal of love towards my culture and country.

    • @benrex7775
      @benrex7775 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@vorynrosethorn903 I read that manga for a while. It is very beautiful indeed.

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 6 месяцев назад +1

      nice

  • @Dachnik228
    @Dachnik228 6 месяцев назад +435

    As a Kazakh I'd say that "Factor X" is probably confidence in future. Nobody tells us that we will die martyrs and we don't really have any existential threats that general populations is aware of(Other than maybe Islamists from Afghan region, but that might be a stretch), we got no climate catastrophe cults and most people are patriotic and want their country to flourish

    • @gilgameschvonuruk4982
      @gilgameschvonuruk4982 6 месяцев назад

      Based, how did it happen, why didn't the climate panic and left wing self-hate reach you?

    • @ВиталийЦегельник-ъ3ю
      @ВиталийЦегельник-ъ3ю 6 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@gilgameschvonuruk4982I'm not kazakh, but as a citizen of another post-soviet state I would suppose that people from our region are more conservative in general and as I know Kazakhstan had quite authoritarian government which also an important factor.

    • @Ameck161
      @Ameck161 6 месяцев назад +32

      As it should be.

    • @kadirbozkus-ss3sm
      @kadirbozkus-ss3sm 6 месяцев назад +7

      How is the economical situation there though? gpd seems to be somewhat equal to my country -Türkiye- however most married couples here have though time having more than one children.

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 6 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@kadirbozkus-ss3sm
      Turks apparently need fertility medication if the average couple have such issues
      I can understand few couples suffering infertility problems but shouldn't most be able to have children with normal sex life

  • @crocs4304
    @crocs4304 6 месяцев назад +269

    Everything I learn about Kazakhstan makes me like it more
    I would love to visit it one day

    • @lionelmourilio
      @lionelmourilio 6 месяцев назад +14

      maybe you have to learn about it more. Especially about corruption and nationalism within it.

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад +25

      ​@@lionelmourilioCorruption is decreasing

    • @lionelmourilio
      @lionelmourilio 6 месяцев назад +4

      @Hasanaljadid but it's still a thing. Even some official reports about population growth turn out to be wrong

    • @arthurmiranda8896
      @arthurmiranda8896 6 месяцев назад +21

      @@lionelmourilio I live in Brazil, anywhere else is a improvement.

    • @andrewrogers3067
      @andrewrogers3067 6 месяцев назад +17

      @@lionelmourilioNo, the growth rates are done by sources outside of Kazakhstan. It’s correct.

  • @alrun2546
    @alrun2546 6 месяцев назад +62

    family structure and close bonds to relatives, child care costs aren't really costs. clothing, child toys and equipment are all gifted or passed from family to family for reuse. people also give significant cash gifts for newborn babies 4 times until they turn 7years: 1 day - cash, 40 days - cash, 1 year - cash, 1 first school day -cash, cumulatively it does cover a lot of the fixed costs of having a baby.

  • @neueka5409
    @neueka5409 6 месяцев назад +69

    I am from Kazakhstan and i think u missed 2 points:
    1.The mass immigration of ethnic Kazakhs after the independence from countries like China, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan
    e.t.c
    They tend to be a lot more conservative and have high f.r.
    2.The government encourages birth rate, by giving women money depending how many children they have
    It was still a good video, thanks from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿👍

    • @samalaimukhametova7290
      @samalaimukhametova7290 6 месяцев назад +11

      Тек ақшаға ғана қарамайды, ондай болса басқа да ақша беретін елдер де көп туар еді

    • @neueka5409
      @neueka5409 6 месяцев назад

      @@samalaimukhametova7290 Бұл да бала туу санының өсуіне ықпал етіп жатыр емес пе? Мысалы Қытай сияқты елдерде керісінше баланы аз табуға ынталандырады, бізде керісінше.

    • @mekingtiger9095
      @mekingtiger9095 6 месяцев назад +16

      Plenty of other governments, specially in Europe, also encourage birth rates with subsidies, but they had a very limited effect on their birth rates.

    • @azeke8
      @azeke8 5 месяцев назад +11

      Bro, the allowance for children is minuscule and consist of one time payment followed by monthly payments until child is 12 months old. Combined they ALMOST cover the cost of diapers. I can guarantee that this allowance has no effect on the fertility rate,

  • @aabbccdd4710
    @aabbccdd4710 6 месяцев назад +236

    Greetings from Kazakhstan.
    _ ____ _____ __ ____ ___ ______

    • @Hassan-uh1so
      @Hassan-uh1so 6 месяцев назад +11

      hello my friend from shmykmant!

    • @AmericanImperium1776
      @AmericanImperium1776 6 месяцев назад +4

      Hello 👋🏻 Greetings from America.

    • @pain8117
      @pain8117 6 месяцев назад +6

      I got your reference, and I am disappointed because no one got the reference before me

    • @KeluMocy
      @KeluMocy 6 месяцев назад +1

      This fertility rate goes very hard

    • @freequeue6057
      @freequeue6057 6 месяцев назад +2

      i love women so much its unreal

  • @benetgamingchanel4055
    @benetgamingchanel4055 6 месяцев назад +71

    Thanks Nurali for giving information to Kaiserbauch. 👏

  • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
    @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +45

    Israelis and Kazakhs have both experienced catastrophic genocides within living memory. Much of their demographic growth is compensatory. “We need to be more numerous” mindset is still prevalent despite the urbanization, economic development, societal atomization, and advancing feminism.

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 6 месяцев назад +1

      Israel has haredi ultra orthodox Jews otherwise the fertility rate is 2.4 but it's declining too so non Haredim fertility rate will be below replacement rate
      Kazakhstan fertility rate will decline in the future but it will take them a lot of time and they can recover from it in case it happens in the future much faster than western countries

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад +9

      Tell that to Greeks and Armenians

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад

      @@Hasanaljadid Armenians had quite high fertility till recently and very high emigration. Perhaps Armenia is too small to sustain a large population and that can be a major demographic constraint. But again, as regional peace sets in and Armenia re-orients its foreign policies from Russia to the developed world there should be a strong surge in investment, trade and economic activity, which will improve Armenians livelihoods and provide more room for demographic growth. So it’s a matter of them mending the relationships with neighboring countries, opening borders and transport links, burying the bitter nationalism and getting back to business. Under such a pragmatic approach I see no reason why they wouldn’t prosper.
      Greeks? What about them? Theirs is a developed country that has demographically grown as much as it probably could. It’s up to them wether to have more babies or less, no pressure there.

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@baha3alshamari152 sure, in the long run fertility goes down everywhere. Can’t defy gravity. Can’t stop universal entropy. All the great creative energy the patriarchal culture and society accumulated in millennia is blown apart in few decades.

    • @Sadoyasturadoglu
      @Sadoyasturadoglu 2 месяца назад

      @@Hasanaljadid Contrary to what you might imagine, the Greeks and Armenians never experienced mass destruction; on the contrary, they were spoiled by Christian western values ​​and suffer from the overwhelmed, wounded nationalist syndrome because they did not establish the assertive nation-states with the maximalist borders they dreamed of.

  • @afasdfas
    @afasdfas 5 месяцев назад +65

    As a Buryat wish all the best to Kazakhs and Kazakhstan, they were lucky to receive an independence during the Soviet collapse unlike us, who are still a colony of Moscow, still under Russian opression and genocide. Hope for Siberian independence one day.

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 5 месяцев назад +1

      Didn't Buryatia asked to remain under Russian federation during USSR and rejected independence

    • @afasdfas
      @afasdfas 5 месяцев назад +7

      @@baha3alshamari152 the short answer no, it asked to leave. It even received a status of an independent state in Russian Federation. But there were only 20 percent Buryats, and as other republics, all activities for the further steps of real independence and even what was achieved, quickly was destroyed by Russian KGB

    • @konplayz
      @konplayz 4 месяца назад +4

      Kiev bot 😂😂

    • @Eshatausyz
      @Eshatausyz 3 месяца назад +3

      Sorry but one shouldn’t call the effort that came with blood, sweat and tears simple luck. Independence, especially from USSR considering how many still have left within Russia, is not a luck. It’s decades of fight and perseverance

  • @misarabage1359
    @misarabage1359 6 месяцев назад +16

    The difference between Kazakh and Russian approach on having children are huge and mainly caused by the older generation.
    For the Russians both from Russia and from Kazakhstan their gold time passed during soviet times. The Russians had the best time during the usssr, and the generation that then experienced the collapse of the socialist state had huge depression after during so called democratic and capitalist era that came after USSR collapse. Those people would raise their children in constant fear of the future and wouldn’t accept the new realities which then led to many depressed families, alcoholism and other similar issues within the nuclear families. The hard times in economy during the 90s didn’t help. Overall the Russian family would consist of one grandmother who would be nostalgic of the past Soviet time, her daughter who married early and had to overcome the difficulties of the 90s and her ex husband who divorced her due to alcohol problems and her only child who she would raise hating the family values
    Whereas the Kazakhs had new found hope after the collapse of the USSR, and a common Kazakh family believed that the future only holds the brighter and better times for us as a nation because the soviet times were the worst in Kazakh history. Thus our grandparents were encouraging their children and helping them financially to start families and have more children in hopes that the future generation is the key to build a strong and blooming economy. On top of that our first president was the family type guy who could speak directly to the common folk and in all his speeches he would bring up the demographic issue, in Kazakh language which actually means a lot considering the majority of the government figures were Russian speakers. The president then made a lot of programs that supported the young families and mothers financially and also made a lot of scholarships available for rural children. I think this is the X factor. The hope for better future.

  • @ustit-vuohta6695
    @ustit-vuohta6695 6 месяцев назад +26

    It seems more and more people are discovering amazing Kazakhstan. You can really notice that Kazakhstan is something extra. Well backed by numbers and good research in this video.

  • @danelastellar5869
    @danelastellar5869 5 месяцев назад +18

    Knowing 7 of your ancestors is not that difficult. Especially if this tradition goes back centuries, and many Kazakhs keep their genealogy.
    So, even if another Kazakh loses his genealogy for some reason, he can easily restore it, just remember what kind of family he is from and what the names of his father and grandfather are.
    Example: if you come from one region of Kazakhstan, then the residents of this region will only ask the name of your grandfather. So, they will already know who you are and where you come from.
    Each Kazakh genealogy belongs to a specific clan. This genus belongs to one of the “zhuzs”. The common tree is called Alty Alash. The entire genealogy of the Kazakhs originates from those people who stood at the origins of the formation of the Golden Horde (its original name was “Ulug Ulus” - the Great Kingdom).
    This genealogy was compared with DNA tests and the Pedigree match with DNA was 90%.
    7 Ancestors is a conventional name. Because the Prohibition/Taboo on mixing blood only applies to 7 ancestors if they intersect. In fact, many Kazakhs generally have much more ancestry. To know your seven ancestors is the minimum that is necessary for a Kazakh.

    • @bayas1302
      @bayas1302 5 месяцев назад

      Also kazakhs have ru(tribe) and you can't marry someone from your ru, which is the same as incest kinda

    • @trueordrue
      @trueordrue 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@bayas1302 you can marry from your ru if common ancestor exceeds from 7 generations

    • @bayas1302
      @bayas1302 3 месяца назад

      @@trueordrue nah, bro, it doesn't matter

  • @3komma141592653
    @3komma141592653 6 месяцев назад +33

    I think it's wrong to even use the GDP numbers from "oil drilling regions" because 99 % of the people there won't get any money from this and it artificially increases the average income. Would be interesting to see how it is different from the mean income.

    • @TOBI-sr4mo
      @TOBI-sr4mo 6 месяцев назад +3

      and you are right. he made a lot of mistakes in that video...

    • @jirislavicek9954
      @jirislavicek9954 6 месяцев назад +5

      That was exactly my thought. There are few very high paying jobs in the oil sector but the majority of people are on the same level as the rest of the country.

    • @3komma141592653
      @3komma141592653 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@jirislavicek9954 Even more likely it's high paying jobs for foreigners, because you don't become a high educated engineer by living in the steps in the most poor part of a country.

    • @jirislavicek9954
      @jirislavicek9954 6 месяцев назад

      @@3komma141592653 Still it's better than nothing. Drilling operations require lot of auxiliary jobs - hospitality, drivers, manual labor, etc.
      By my understanding the Kazakh language is young, it only exists in written form since the establishment of the Soviet Union. There is no literature and intellectual heritage in Kazakh language and many technical terms don't exist in it. Technical expertise is mostly thought in Russian in universities, which pushes many Kazakh only speaking students out of the lucrative jobs. At least that was the case until pretty recently. Western companies bring their own experts from the West.

    • @Scolotfan
      @Scolotfan 6 месяцев назад

      But sales of cars, sale of houses and etc. says other point than what you say. Anyway at some degree you right

  • @trueordrue
    @trueordrue 6 месяцев назад +57

    That Shmykmant at 14:57 gave me goosebumps

    • @timkaz8793
      @timkaz8793 6 месяцев назад +5

      Yes, the author should have read it carefully. It’s called Shymkent

    • @aslan_kz_97
      @aslan_kz_97 5 месяцев назад +2

      Шымкент (Shymkent) is correct.

    • @rakhatthenut3815
      @rakhatthenut3815 5 месяцев назад +1

      He even corrected himself in text incorrectly, lol

    • @只是約翰紐約市
      @只是約翰紐約市 5 месяцев назад

      Шмыкмант, lmao

  • @neversarium
    @neversarium 6 месяцев назад +17

    19:00 Sons in Kazakh families traditionally move out, except the youngest son who cares for his parents with his family.
    All the inheritance goes to the youngest son. Kazakh families help each other. Some childless couples also (sometimes) care for their nephews or something. I was living with my childless uncle for a few years, for example.

    • @maxh7637
      @maxh7637 6 месяцев назад +1

      And if there's only one son?

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +4

      I guess I'm the youngest son even though I'm a daughter. My siblings are enjoying their individual life and I have to help the family and have no life of my own. But yay inheritance.

    • @neversarium
      @neversarium 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@maxh7637stay and care for the parents

  • @marmac83
    @marmac83 6 месяцев назад +152

    Kazakhs are aware of their decline during the 20th century and it's a cultural perogative to increase their numbers to stave of Russian irredentism. At least that's what Kazakhs in Prague have told me while drunk...

    • @vos2693
      @vos2693 6 месяцев назад +89

      Before 2022: "that's schizo ramblings"
      After 2022: "very wise strategy"

    • @Tk-mj1cl
      @Tk-mj1cl 6 месяцев назад +7

      Hm, interesting. Isn't Kazakhstan a Russian ally? I remember Putin helping the Kazakh government to supress some riots before the Ukranian war. And other instances of cooperative behavior. What do the Kazakhs think about the kazakh-russian relationship right now?

    • @trueordrue
      @trueordrue 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@Tk-mj1cl kazakhs generally hate putin and russian government. Also kazakhs are aware of colonization from tzarist era and famine committed in communist era. While between russians from Kazakhstan there is a big divide. Some russians support invasion to Ukraine and some russians are against the invasion.

    • @oligano
      @oligano 6 месяцев назад +49

      As a Kazakh I will say that this is the opinion of nationalists and "westerners". If Kazakhstan remains a neutral state, there will be no threat from the Russian Federation. This was also true for Ukraine. Literally all post-Soviet countries that either co-operated with Russia or remained neutral are experiencing an economic boom. Rather than the "Westerners" in the form of Moldova, Ukraine and partly Georgia. It is good to have farsighted people in the government.

    • @yteapotx
      @yteapotx 6 месяцев назад +50

      @@Tk-mj1cl Most Kazakhs have atleast some sort of skepticism when it comes to Russia

  • @balporsugu2.0
    @balporsugu2.0 5 месяцев назад +15

    I hope Kazakhs ban both Russian language and islamist ideologies. They must embrace Kazakh language and traditionalist Tengrism.

    • @Consultadvisory
      @Consultadvisory 22 дня назад

      Tengriism should be supported telling you as a Kazakh Tengri

  • @Λυκάων
    @Λυκάων 6 месяцев назад +14

    Maybe Europeans could learn something from the Kazakh demographic comeback
    Going from 30% to 70% in 2 generations is insane

    • @ArmaanRawat472
      @ArmaanRawat472 3 месяца назад +4

      Tbf the demographic comeback also involved out migration of ethnic groups like the Germans and Russians, along with immigration of Kazakhs from other parts of the USSR.

  • @hishamalaker491
    @hishamalaker491 6 месяцев назад +91

    Kazakhstan be like: We were colonized by Europeans but we won lmao.

    • @adamradziwill
      @adamradziwill 6 месяцев назад +5

      "Let us begin with this evident fact: Muscovy does not belong at all to Europe, but to Asia. It follows that judging Muscovy and the Muscovites by our European standards is a mistake to be avoided."-gonzague de reynold, 19501 In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "

    • @hishamalaker491
      @hishamalaker491 6 месяцев назад +12

      @@traumvonhaiti Our? Your Kazakh? Nice, would like to visit your beatiful country this is coming from a Palestinian. The Steppe, the mountains if you have, the plains all of it looks cool and your Muslim thats also great its a common factor. Keep being a great country, hopefully some of my arab brethren can take a note.

    • @hishamalaker491
      @hishamalaker491 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@adamradziwill I dont care Russians are European, I am saying this from a middle eastern btw. They are basically Europeans but cold (literally cold look at where they live) and poorer on average.

    • @job8700
      @job8700 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@hishamalaker491Europeans traditionally apply to residents of Western Europe who are Romans, but to Eastern Europeans the term Europeans is not traditionally used and this applies to Russians and other Slavs

    • @communist754
      @communist754 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@traumvonhaiti If Russia was intent on doing European-style colonizing of Kazakhstan, you would have been ethnically cleansed, like aboriginal Americans or Australians. The influx of the Russian population was mostly related to rapid industrialization and urbanization of the land, which could not have been accomplished without an influx of educated urban workforce from the Russian heartland. They built the cities and infrastructure and voluntarily left it to you on a silver platter, without a fight. That's not called "colonialism", it's called "winning a historical lottery". At least show some gratitude.

  • @TotalSwitchYoutube
    @TotalSwitchYoutube 6 месяцев назад +305

    “Baby wake up, your favorite Czech launched a new video.”

    • @EtherialofNowhere
      @EtherialofNowhere 6 месяцев назад +14

      Babe wake up x2 your favorite Czech launched a new video about my home country XD

    • @oooshafiqooo
      @oooshafiqooo 6 месяцев назад +9

      hes Czech?!? i tought he's German!

    • @gdup1728
      @gdup1728 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@oooshafiqooo same thing really

    • @GnosticLucifer
      @GnosticLucifer 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@gdup1728waiting for Czech Empire

    • @makkusu3866
      @makkusu3866 6 месяцев назад

      @@GnosticLuciferCzechs are wanna be slavic Germans lets me honest

  • @Baghdad56
    @Baghdad56 6 месяцев назад +20

    I believe we have found another Rorschach test boys. The miracle of Kazakhstan is whatever you want it to be, government policies, pro-natalist culture, flourishing economy, patriarchy, feminism, religiosity, secularism, they'll all do.
    Btw i don't know anything about Kazakhstan but already from the flag it seems a cool country, best wishes from Italy

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you, we do our best to maintain tradition but move forward with time, love to Italy🇰🇿❤️🇮🇹

  • @leonardoleo5740
    @leonardoleo5740 6 месяцев назад +128

    Simple: Kazakhstan decided that having hope in the future, not support degeneracy, women as superior to men and patriotism is the right path and would be good for their country. Now they have a young growing population which will help them go to the future. All other countries with the exception of Central asians in their neighbourhood are doomed.

    • @bionmccool
      @bionmccool 6 месяцев назад +18

      Dude, try to rewrite this. I'm confused as hell from the lack of punctuation marks and general sentence structure. Ergo, not "simple" at all.

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 6 месяцев назад +9

      It is easy to understand his comment.​@@bionmccool

    • @Ғаламатадам
      @Ғаламатадам 6 месяцев назад +3

      I mean Israel is pro feminist country rather, but has a high fertility

    • @mal_3157
      @mal_3157 6 месяцев назад

      Yea it's just usually that means men are considered superior to women lol

    • @SamueLeumas911
      @SamueLeumas911 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@Ғаламатадамultra orthodox Jewish families make tons of children, that’s why fertility rate isn’t that bad

  • @Ahmed-iam
    @Ahmed-iam 6 месяцев назад +31

    I have seen 0 burkas in my lifetime as a kazakh. What you are referring to probably is hijab

    • @damian_madmansnest
      @damian_madmansnest 6 месяцев назад +7

      I’ve seen a couple of women in burqas walking down the street just now, an older and a younger woman, Qostanay.

    • @Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too
      @Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too 6 месяцев назад

      @@damian_madmansnest I guess he is from the north.

    • @damian_madmansnest
      @damian_madmansnest 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too I have literally seen two women wearing burqas today in the north in the least religious region of Kazakhstan 🙃It’s a quite rare sight but I still think having seen 0 burqas in one’s life as a Kazakh is either some unusual luck or an overexaggeration.

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +1

      I see so much niqab outside in Almaty it's scary.

    • @damian_madmansnest
      @damian_madmansnest 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@chisaki703 Yeah i’d rather Kazakhs stuck to Kazakh version of Islam otherwise the nice demographic won’t help…

  • @thearpox7873
    @thearpox7873 6 месяцев назад +86

    I think an "X factor" candidate may be the population density in comparison to livable area, where Kazakhstan is hilariously underpopulated. It's steppes may not be prime real estate, but by comparison to Canada and Australia, both largely inhospitable wastelands, it's downright heavenly.
    It may not usually be such a prominent factor in demographics development in the 21st century, but when the disparity is so stark...

    • @gairionysten3188
      @gairionysten3188 6 месяцев назад +31

      Look at the population density map of Kazakhstan. It is more similar to australia than you think. Most people live in the south near or in the fergana valley. Or in the north where climate is more mild. Central kazakhstan is deserts, mountains or steppe, not very livable.

    • @thearpox7873
      @thearpox7873 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@gairionysten3188 Dunno, maybe. I haven't checked how the density map compares to the nearby countries either, so maybe it's not such a relevant factor. I do think the question of whether having pre-industrial levels of density can prompt greater fertility even in a modern world is a real one though.

    • @communist754
      @communist754 6 месяцев назад +2

      Russia has a much lower population density, but its birthrates suck.

    • @thearpox7873
      @thearpox7873 6 месяцев назад

      @@communist754 Same problem as Canada.

    • @jgw9990
      @jgw9990 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@communist754Adjust for uninhabitable areas and its more normal. Most of Siberia is useless for humans.

  • @qwertylowbubble
    @qwertylowbubble 6 месяцев назад +26

    It wasn't a famine caused by attempts to bring kazakh people into the collective farming system, it was a genocide. Ukrainians and kazakhs were the most large ethnicities in the Soviet union after russians, which posed a threat to soviets. Decreasing their population was beneficial for soviets trying to strengthen their power. Ukrainians have no problem with agriculture and collective farming, yet they still suffered from famine.

    • @qwertylowbubble
      @qwertylowbubble 6 месяцев назад +5

      Btw, 40% is a huge underestimate. We all know how the soviet union and modern russia play with statistics.

    • @golden_horde
      @golden_horde 6 месяцев назад

      Очень странно что вы забываете об оралманах, которые по сути были баями и они увели огромное количество скота за границу, а советское правительство знала об общем количестве скоте и пыталось выполнить план, забирая последнее у казахов. Наверное надо быть более объективными, когда кто то говорит только с одной точки зрения это становится пропагандой.

    • @golden_horde
      @golden_horde 6 месяцев назад

      Возможно если бы они не увели бы скот, не было бы нужды отбирать последнее у народа? И не было бы таких потерь, но всю вину воздагают только на СССР, хотя тут и наша бай постарались.

    • @alexswagger939
      @alexswagger939 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@qwertylowbubble any evidence about playing with statistics or it's just WEWEEREKINZUGABUGA post-"colonial"resentment?

  • @behzadahmad8818
    @behzadahmad8818 6 месяцев назад +57

    Uzbekistan is also booming, they increased their birthrates from a low 2.19 in 2012 to 3.17 in 2021.

    • @bayas1302
      @bayas1302 6 месяцев назад +2

      Central Asia is going well

    • @spokbro
      @spokbro 6 месяцев назад +5

      Uzbekistan can’t be viewed as much of exception since it’s a rather poor country with gdp per capital level lower than Kenya or Nigeria

    • @gustavoritter7321
      @gustavoritter7321 6 месяцев назад

      @@spokbro That still doesnt explain why their fertility rates are going UP rather than down as everyone else

    • @Assarabiyah
      @Assarabiyah 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@spokbro Look at the HDI now. Uzbekistan is much better than that countries.

    • @KlimFilippov
      @KlimFilippov 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@spokbrobut the most population increase can be found in the big cities, such as Tashkent, Samarkand and Namangan, which actually don't look like places with poor population
      for instance, I am a Tashkent citizen, and my actual income is about 900$, which is not a pretty huge amount of money compared to others' wages.

  • @rvknill9865
    @rvknill9865 6 месяцев назад +64

    Kazakhs become from minority to majority💪🏻🔥Good job Kazakhstan👍🏻
    Salam from KR🇰🇬

    • @maxh7637
      @maxh7637 6 месяцев назад +7

      Thank you, bro!

    • @KlimFilippov
      @KlimFilippov 5 месяцев назад +2

      Салам из Ташкента, бро

    • @helloworld-ti5zs
      @helloworld-ti5zs 5 месяцев назад

      Салам нашим братьям узбекам и кыргызам. ❤
      Миру вашему дому!
      Моя мечта ,чтобы вся Центральная Азия процветала, наши добрые и гостеприимные народы этого заслуживают.

    • @MaxPayne-fi1mz
      @MaxPayne-fi1mz 4 месяца назад

      ​@@helloworld-ti5zsMay Allah bless these lands which gave great scholars to the entire Muslim world.

  • @nurzhan3269
    @nurzhan3269 Месяц назад +2

    I would like to add that ethnic diversity did not come after Russians conquered Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan was always place of great diversity starting from 1500 years ago, you can see it from various genetic studies of Kazakhs.

  • @khankotyan6991
    @khankotyan6991 6 месяцев назад +50

    As a person from Kazakhstan, who noticed that's trends as well, I can probably add a few things to this video as well.
    First of all, kazakhstan is a country with a high level of external migration between regions. Especially between rural and city areas, due to collapse of ussr and immigration of skill labor, many jobs been opened in the cities, and even more in the next year's, due to economic boom. It reminds me of a first wave of industrial revolution situation, when cities grow rapidly, due to external migration from the rural areas.
    Culturally speaking, I would also noted about high levels of interethnic marriages, between different cultures, especially in the North. Despite Being somewhat downlooked by the older members of a kazakh family, it greatly contributed to assimilation amd cultural integration of a different ethnic groups in the cities. This trend also somewhat contributed to secularism ane high knowledge of Russian language, because in the era of russian speaking majority in the population, high interethnic marriages also been a thing.
    And the last is, secular behaviour is very high, even in the somewhat religious families, due to differences in Islam between orthodox arabic version, and a local one, witch been greatly influenced by the nomadic traditions, and so less strict in many regards.

    • @shk439
      @shk439 6 месяцев назад +12

      I agree Kazakhstan should assimilate ethnic minorities,especially Russians, so that they don't feel marginalized, because otherwise they would want to join Russia

    • @maksimfedoryak
      @maksimfedoryak 6 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@shk439first at all Kz should ban all ruzzian medias and "NGOs" to prevent Crimea scenario on north. Our authority just have ignored literally hundreds of "NGOs", that have been gaslighting russian speakers into victim mindset while irl they are imperial settlers

    • @PretzelsWithSalt
      @PretzelsWithSalt 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@maksimfedoryakuh, no?
      Speaking as a northern kazakh who lives in a city, where half of population is russian, there are no real supporters of "returning to Russia" or whatever. Plenty of people, especially young ones, are supportive of Ukraine, including Russians. Or they think that the war is ultimately pointless violence. Even older people really just support Russia's cause, without wanting to join them.
      It's just pointless, and it'd threaten the good and stable relations with our big neighbour, that might leave us closer to China in exchange.

    • @maksimfedoryak
      @maksimfedoryak 5 месяцев назад

      @@PretzelsWithSalt there are no such a thing as "good relationship" with empire. You are just valuable, as hub between western and ruzzian market, but nothing will prevent gaslighting of ruzzian minority into victim mindset in next 5 years

    • @TheDragonofRevelation
      @TheDragonofRevelation 12 дней назад

      Be careful of secularism, it has a negative effect on the general population. But if Kazakhstan is having an industrial revolution, you need to learn from the grave errors of the West. Do NOT lose your pro-natalist views, do NOT lose your family units and do NOT allow militant feminism (like seen in Europe and in the United States) to take a hold of your country. And don't become materialistic either, those are all cancers to society. And while I hope this doesn't happen to your society, a lot of greed has destroyed the future of the West. What do I mean? As an American, I can say that American companies have reaped profit off of underpaying Americans for decades. I noticed that Kazakhs in the cities earn $40,000.00 USD a year and I'm an American earning the same amount of money as an average Kazakh. I'm sure the cost of living is FAR lower in your country than in America and we had a similar time in America during the 1950s with the American Baby Boom. The economy was great, everything was affordable and having families was the norm. I bring this up because South Korea has the same unaffordability crisis as the United States but in a far worse way which is why South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world, at least from what I can see. Use your discernment, trust your God and learn from the rest of the world what to avoid.

  • @orkunberkb1850
    @orkunberkb1850 6 месяцев назад +9

    17:24 wearing burqa type of hijab is never widely practised by nomadic (like Kazakhs ans Kyrgyses) or rural women, its more like urban type of hijab.
    Even in Turkey one of the hot topic of feminism debates in late 1800's and early 1900's is "why urban ladies cant enjoy freedom of rural women, why hijab rules executed for urban ladies are more strict than rural?"
    Because nomadic or rural women must work outside the house, in fields or in animal herd so in these places traditinaly hijabs of the women were more light. A woman in burqa cant do these tasks freely.

  • @andrewrogers3067
    @andrewrogers3067 6 месяцев назад +113

    There’s another country I’d love to see you tackle, Iceland. Iceland had a very high fertility rate despite being a rather rich and secular country, going above the replacement rate in the late 80s early 90s, and the 2010s briefly. I was curious why this was the case, and wonder if being an island has anything to do with it, New Zealand also has a solid fertility rate but is far worse than Iceland.

    • @ten_tego_teges
      @ten_tego_teges 6 месяцев назад +2

      Great idea!

    • @jostnamane3951
      @jostnamane3951 6 месяцев назад +36

      Not anymore,
      Iceland 2022: 1.59
      New Zealand 2022: 1.66

    • @GuilhermePereira-vi6vc
      @GuilhermePereira-vi6vc 6 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@jostnamane3951well, still more than the 1,4 of my country Portugal which is the poorest in western Europe and so I suppose is way much poorer than Iceland. And also by what I know Iceland isn't yet importing hundreds of thousands of Africans and Indians that have much more babies than the natives

    • @andrewrogers3067
      @andrewrogers3067 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@jostnamane3951You’re talking this current year, I’m talking throughout the decades

    • @WilliamSantos-cv8rr
      @WilliamSantos-cv8rr 6 месяцев назад +21

      It is related to the network of families, being an island of a small isolated ethnicity builds up a tight knitted community bonding in this situation they get enough stability and security to trust in the future. Same happens to close communities all around the world, and that is the reason why Israel has that high fertility rate, basically being a tiny country of many closed communities.

  • @bezymannyboom5208
    @bezymannyboom5208 6 месяцев назад +10

    Thnx man for covering such an interesting topic of my country. Really appreciate it

  • @azeke8
    @azeke8 6 месяцев назад +8

    Thank you for the video. I was the guy who made the comment about unusually good demographics in Kazakhstan.

  • @ApprovedUser
    @ApprovedUser 6 месяцев назад +18

    May God protect us from the evil eye

  • @АлькейАманжолов
    @АлькейАманжолов 6 месяцев назад +85

    I'm Kazakh. I was born and raised in Kazakhstan. I live in Kazakhstan now. I will live in Kazakhstan and I hope that I will die in Kazakhstan.
    I love my people and know our history.
    However, I have been thinking about the issue of high birth rates in my country for a whole year. And I still haven't found a comprehensive answer.
    In theory, as urbanization increases, the birth rate falls. This is a universal law for everyone.
    Urbanization, technocratization, feminism, atomization, materialism, modernity, postmodernity. We have all this and it is getting stronger. Yes, we have less feminism than in Europe, but believe me, it is highly developed here. Our women are much freer than in Arab countries.
    So why are we growing? There are many factors here:
    1) Genetic memory of our suffering. Over the past 300 years, our people have had too many disasters. Disasters that killed approximately half of the entire population each. Our people have some kind of BIOLOGICAL feeling that there should be more of us. People even have exact numbers, which are approximately the same for most people. We should have a population of 40-50 million, compared to the current 20 million. There should have been so many of us if not for the catastrophes of the last 200-300 years.
    2) Fear of neighbors. Russia and China. Large empires that are not right in the head. And who have zero humanism towards small nations both in their own country (War against Chechen separatism in Russia, Uyghur re-education camps in China.) and on their borders (War in Georgia, war in Ukraine, Taiwan).
    We understand with our skin that if they attack us, they will most likely conquer us. But to conquer does not mean to enslave. The stronger our patriotism and the higher our numbers, the more expensive it will be to control us.
    However, these are superficial factors. This is not enough. We need to go deeper.
    1) Family. Kazakhs and all of Central Asia are very family-oriented regions. Family, family and more family. Family is extremely important
    2) Sacralization of fertility. Children are of utmost importance. Super significant. Without children, much of the meaning of life is lost. This is especially felt when your native language is Kazakh, not Russian. The language itself literally cultivates people's love for children. And the importance of fertility. It's hard to explain, but it's true. In Central Asian cultures, the importance of children is deeply ingrained.
    In principle, you can stop there, but it would be a mistake. We need to dig even deeper.
    1) Optimism for the future. We believe that everything will be fine with us. Although we clearly see that the whole world is in crisis and the next 30-50 years will be very bad all over the world. But it will be good later, right? Where does this optimism come from? Rather, it is a cultural factor; we have experienced the most terrible thing before. It shouldn't be so hard now and in the future. Naive? Yes.
    2) Harmony of religions and ethnic groups. We are very proud of our hospitality and we are probably in the top 10 countries in the world with the highest inter-ethnic and inter-confessional harmony. We are all friends with each other. This creates a comfortable living environment.
    But that's not all. There are countries that have the same parameters as above, but they have a low birth rate. There's something else.
    1) Vision of the future. Project of the future. Kazakhstan knows where it is going. There will be more of us, we will become richer. This is the desired plan. Perhaps we will expand the borders, but this will only be in 40+ years, when Russia will completely weaken, and we will become strong and numerous. And the annexation of territories will be a very soft, organic and creeping process. With no blood.
    2) Roots of the past. Kazakhs are restoring their history. This knowledge gives strength. The nomads and all of Central Asia have a great and dramatic history.
    Here we get to the heart of the matter. This is of course just my theory. But my Kazakh heart tells me that I am right.
    All of Central Asia and Mongolia are gradually strengthening their connection with Eternity and Infinity. Time and Space.
    Let me explain. A person cannot live without transcendental meanings. Without higher meanings, to put it simply. Meanings that are greater than ordinary human life. These meanings should connect a person with Eternity and Infinity. In this case, time and space are each divided into two more parameters. Time is divided into Past and Future. The space is divided into the Inner world and the Outer world. It turns out 4 pillars.
    1) Past
    2) Future
    3) Inner world
    4) Outside world
    At the same time, all 4 pillars are endowed with sacredness and spiritualized. We have a soul and the whole world around us is full of living souls.
    If all these 4 pillars are strong, then we have living faith. Or organic faith. If organic faith is strong, then children are born. Organic faith is not identical to Religion, it is different. Previously, the closest thing to organic faith was paganism. Belief in the spirits of ancestors (the Past), sacred education of children, as well as the most significant holiday - these are the holidays of Fertility (Future), the spirits of nature (Outer World), the complex nature of the human soul (Inner World).
    The stronger the organic faith, the healthier the society. The less depression and other social illnesses it has.
    I haven’t dug deeper yet, I feel like I’m still missing something.
    An important point is that in organic faith, the Past and Future are primarily viewed through biology. Ancestors and descendants. In general, organic faith is very...biological in nature. A kind of spiritualized, sacralized... biology. We are part of nature, but at the same time we have the mind, will and soul to realize, spiritualize and sacralize our biological task as a biological species. It doesn’t sound very divine, but it is most effective in terms of fertility and survival in the long term.
    The current descendants of the nomads of the Great Steppe and the inhabitants of Central Asia have just such an organic faith.

    • @Qazaq_10
      @Qazaq_10 6 месяцев назад +30

      Керемет жаздың, бауырым! Ойыңның барлығы дұрыс. Енді бастысы осындай ақылды жігіт бола тұра, көптеп бала жасап таста, елімізге көмектесіп🫡

    • @abdulla3556
      @abdulla3556 6 месяцев назад +12

      You have dug deep enough, my friend

    • @jameskamotho7513
      @jameskamotho7513 6 месяцев назад +6

      Your first point is quite apt and may also explain Israeli fertility rate...

    • @bigboyman5743
      @bigboyman5743 6 месяцев назад +7

      >s we will expand the borders, but this will only be in 40+ years, when Russia will completely weaken, and we will become strong and numerous. And the annexation of territories will be a very soft, organic and creeping process. With no blood.
      ?
      why would kazakhstan expand? don't they already have too much territory?

    • @dauletserikbol9148
      @dauletserikbol9148 6 месяцев назад +12

      Жиналып қалыпты брат😂
      Бірақ айтқан сөздеріңмен толықтай келісемін🫡

  • @Witnessmoo
    @Witnessmoo 6 месяцев назад +47

    The GDP per capita states are irrelevant because the money comes from oil, and the revenues from that go to the rich.
    So if my neighbour is a millionaire, and I earn 0, our GDP per capita is 500k each 😂

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +4

      There’s the thing called taxation. That channels part of oil and other money to local and state budget

    • @Ғаламатадам
      @Ғаламатадам 6 месяцев назад +2

      actually the whole mining sector incl oil etc. makes up only 12 percent of GDP, but in terms of export they are prevailent

    • @azeke8
      @azeke8 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@АлишерОрынбек-б8дIn Kazakhstan local budget is decided upon by central government. In western Kazakhstan only engineers and oil company management make big bux. The average worker is no better off than in the rest of Kazakhstan.

  • @edvenify
    @edvenify 6 месяцев назад +11

    Feel like I was banging on about this on your channel for ages
    Glad to see a video on this topic!

  • @anmolpatel793
    @anmolpatel793 2 месяца назад +4

    Kazakhstan’s high GDP is mostly due to mineral reserves not because of cutting edge industry

  • @Alex_Urs
    @Alex_Urs 6 месяцев назад +43

    Did not have this on my "most likely KaiserBauch next video topic" card! Can we appreciate, besides the good demographics, how beautiful their flag is?
    Here's hoping to see a Romania video from you one day...

  • @StarMaster470
    @StarMaster470 6 месяцев назад +521

    Hi! If you're reading this, have a great day!

  • @draggador
    @draggador 6 месяцев назад +37

    Aren't turkey & kazakhstan the only two regions located almost completely in asia that are eligible to join the european union based on the fact that a part of each of them is inside the geographical boundaries designated for european mainland? With that in mind, it doesn't feel like a random coincidence that both of them ended up getting covered by your analytical essays somehow.

    • @muramasa870
      @muramasa870 6 месяцев назад +23

      Kazakhstan has a chunk in europe in as big as france in volume

    • @alexvegetables7856
      @alexvegetables7856 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@muramasa870most of it is just vast plains

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 6 месяцев назад

      its central Europe

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@alexvegetables7856so is poland

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@alexvegetables7856 and? There's still cities there.

  • @maika2449
    @maika2449 6 месяцев назад +20

    I am touched by this video ) First RealLifeLore, now KaiserBauch, my country is experiencing some kind of Rennaissance ))) As a child-free (sorry to say that such exist in KZ too) educated Kazakh woman, have to say, you are very motivating to get it on and produce some little Kazakh sapiens ) Seriously though, have to say it’s true about there being practically no difference in the per-woman averages as regards to education level. I have some cousins that have 5 kids! And just generally it is quite observable in society. Thanks to my compatriot Nurali as well, you advised well! Very well-done video, and seriously it does more to stirring feelings of patriotism than any government-led efforts could.

    • @harpsdesire4200
      @harpsdesire4200 6 месяцев назад +4

      I thought the 4b movement was taking hold in KZ due to that government worker unalived his wife a few years ago. I've already seen a few Kazakh tiktok channels promoting 4b in your country. For the record I am American who has been to KZ three times and loved it

    • @Musa-al-Khwarazmi
      @Musa-al-Khwarazmi 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@harpsdesire4200 current president of K-stan is allegedly a globalist. all sorts of "human-haters" are coming out of woodwork the past few years

    • @Куаныш-ч8с
      @Куаныш-ч8с 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@harpsdesire4200здравствуйте , тот случае никак не характеризует мой Казахстан. У нас женщины довольно сдержанные и спокойные и в душе религиозные. А это жертва Салтанат, жена того самого чиновника , насколько мне известно имела большую зависимость от алькоголя и наркотиков как и её муж. У них за всё время брака и детей не было , что неестественно для Казахстана как и здоровых отношений. С уважением Казах.

    • @harpsdesire4200
      @harpsdesire4200 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Куаныш-ч8с it doesn't matter, the fact that the internet exists and everyone in every country including yours has a smartphone means it's already over. Kazakh women have been exposed to this ideology and the cats out of the bag. Wasn't there a feminist march in Almaty a few years ago? The ideas are there they just need time to sprout.
      I don't say this with contempt for disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing, I want Kazakhstan to succeed and grow, but that's simply not the reality. I give it about 5 years to a decade before the birth rates and not only your country but the rest of Central Asia tank like they are in Korea or Japan. Except this time it'll be even worse since the population is much lower in this region.

    • @ansarseidakhmetov9019
      @ansarseidakhmetov9019 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@harpsdesire4200 that's a bot, so please don't bother explaining anything. The murderer's family is quite rich to have these bots on every platform looking for comments just like yours. She was not alcoholic nor was she abusive. We are not blaming the victim here in the country. Regarding the birth rates, it's not quite right to compare my country to Korea and Japan, since they are decades ahead of us, and the cultural aspect is quite different. I would give it at least another generation for rates to plummet and mindset to shift towards something else than family upbringing.

  • @purpledevilr7463
    @purpledevilr7463 6 месяцев назад +8

    I think this may be the only KaiserBauch video that doesn’t give me existential dread.

  • @yetkinbilgen3430
    @yetkinbilgen3430 6 месяцев назад +6

    Seeing Central Asian bros following our steps is wholesome (Turkia went from 12 milion population in 1923 to a fricing 100 milion in 2024 if you also include Turks that has imigrated to west europe lmao)
    Again, and for the factor X that you have been looking for, I can give you that one thing that also explains Turkia's situation in 20th century : Nomadic low population trauma
    I mean in all turkic countries you can easliy find hundrets of legends, myths and folklore telling about sparsly populated ancient Turkic Nomads constantly fighting against Settled civilisations with behemot populations like China, Iran and Slavs(used to be lmao). Struggling to match up their numbers, wasting their whole lifes moving from one side of country to other on horseback to desperatelly fight back more crowded enemies
    So having less population and demographic power has literally been a holding factor, some sort of Trauma, complex for Ancient Turks, fear of getting over run, fear of getting assimilated in more crowded agricultural settled races.
    You can find many old Turkic saying about this, for example in all Turkic populations, we have a saying : we die one and re-born thousand ! Or even in ancient Turkic records from Central asia dated back to 600s are full of Ancient Turkic khagans praising themself through whole runics simply and only for succesfully increasing the number of Turks out there.
    So what I say that some sort of cultural inferiority complex, trauma of us nomads will have less population and will lose our ethnic homeland despite our best efforts automatically turns Turks from all around the world into baby making machinesTeşekkürler.

    • @yetkinbilgen3430
      @yetkinbilgen3430 6 месяцев назад +4

      Anatolian Turks were traumatized with Armenians and Greeks trying to take their lands in early 20th century
      Kazaks saw Russian majority in Kazakhistan in late 20th century

    • @kaiserbauch9092
      @kaiserbauch9092  3 месяца назад

      Thank you very much!

  • @LogicaetRatio-r8z
    @LogicaetRatio-r8z 6 месяцев назад +17

    Fact check: cousin marriages are not widely practiced in the country because it is forbidden by Kazakh national tradition to intermarry within 7 generations. It is an absolute taboo. So I hope you could do your research more thoroughly.

  • @TheRealGigachad1848
    @TheRealGigachad1848 6 месяцев назад +19

    It also has one of the coolest national flags.

    • @helloworld-ti5zs
      @helloworld-ti5zs 5 месяцев назад +4

      And beautiful Kazakh women. Kazakhs are Eurasians. It is the country where Europe and Asia meet , so we look like a sort of mixture of these two races.

  • @hl3493
    @hl3493 6 месяцев назад +7

    Great, love that positive content. All the best for Kazahkstan. Maybe we can learn from them.

  • @dasritejogger1647
    @dasritejogger1647 6 месяцев назад +20

    Love from Kazakhstan

  • @cobii5174
    @cobii5174 6 месяцев назад +7

    kaiserbauch positive title and comment section ?? Alhamdulilah

  • @user-e2b9j
    @user-e2b9j 4 месяца назад +4

    I am from Western Europe but found Kazakhstan cool!
    Never been there but I wish you the best!

  • @stelvaga
    @stelvaga 6 месяцев назад +37

    Kazakhstan is not a muslim country! It’s a secular state with different religions.

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад +8

      It is Muslim country

    • @trueordrue
      @trueordrue 6 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@Hasanaljadid well if u consider alcohol drinking, dont praying fove times, women not wearing hijab and people not caring about halal products than yes Kazakhstan is muslim.

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@trueordrueAlcohol drinking is lower in Kazakhstan then anywhere in Europe and mostly consumed by russians. Kazakhs almost never eats pork and mostly eats halal meats.Being Muslim Doesn't mean every aspect of life is governed by Islam.Many Kazakhs are religious too

    • @uziel420
      @uziel420 6 месяцев назад +5

      no ​@@Hasanaljadid

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@uziel420Yes

  • @l1sosdi708
    @l1sosdi708 5 месяцев назад +2

    not often do i see people making videos about kazakhstan, great job man

    • @AlfarrisiMuammar
      @AlfarrisiMuammar 4 месяца назад +2

      Only Central Asia and Israel where women can get higher education and have many children

  • @DmT922ha
    @DmT922ha 6 месяцев назад +75

    GREAT SUCCESS!!!👍👍

  • @ariadgaia5932
    @ariadgaia5932 6 месяцев назад +12

    This makes me smile~ I'm happy to hear that they are doing well! I rarely hear about the country. Good for Kazakhstan!

  • @acoknitteruntemha
    @acoknitteruntemha 6 месяцев назад +8

    I think family plays an important role here. When the West and East Asia modernised, the family culture gradually changed and people start to value a family less and less and start to focus on themselves. Now whether this is something good or bad is another debate but I think that familz culture is an important factoe here

    • @TheDragonofRevelation
      @TheDragonofRevelation 12 дней назад

      I think it has less to do with the focus on self and more to do with a combination of factors. The West (specifically America) has always been an individualistic society and that never stopped the population book of the 1950s.

  • @tranquilizerDvN
    @tranquilizerDvN 6 месяцев назад +16

    KAZAKHSTAN MENTIONED🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿

  • @davidplowman6149
    @davidplowman6149 2 месяца назад +3

    Don’t you have your smoking gun? Strong family structures and an early age of first birth can easily explain a high fertility rate.

  • @QasqaZhol
    @QasqaZhol 6 месяцев назад +19

    Russians did ethnic cleansings in 1916, 1920, 1930. They also used our lands for nuclear weapon tests in 1950-1980. Used syrdariya river for cotton and rice, which led our aral lake to dry out. Soviets also did tselina land reform which led to massive soil erosions in 1960.
    So after our independence, we are getting to our limits population, since thankfully to the antisoviet nato alliance soviet union disbanded.

  • @nursultankairat7737
    @nursultankairat7737 5 месяцев назад +5

    Not to mention the massive immigration of ethnic Kazakhs from adjacent countries after gaining independence, that significantly contributed to the increase of native Kazakh population. These Kazakhs usually come from lands that used to be a part of Kazakh Khanate, or descendants оf people fleed to other countries due to communist repression and famine. According to statistics, approximately 20% of Kazakhstani population was born in foreign countries. Majority of them moved from Uzbekistan, China and Mongolia. There are still about 3 million ethnic Kazakhs living outside of Kazakhstan.

  • @dehaman_4_144
    @dehaman_4_144 6 месяцев назад +40

    Man... you can't just simply say "i don't know whats happening".... we are here for your expertise and insight

    • @nurzhan3269
      @nurzhan3269 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@traumvonhaitinot true, Uzbekistan is declining

    • @nurzhan3269
      @nurzhan3269 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@traumvonhaitiI've been looking at the fertility rate and it seems like declining

  • @mr.clutch9548
    @mr.clutch9548 6 месяцев назад +6

    So cool that you made this video because just a few weeks ago I was looking into the demographics of Kazakhstan and was intrigued by how well they seem to be doing. The best post Soviet state when it comes to fertility by a long shot.

  • @SofaMuncher
    @SofaMuncher 6 месяцев назад +22

    Good for Kazakhstan, I hope they grow to become one of the most prosperous places on earth! 🇨🇦🤝🇰🇿

  • @camuscoffee11
    @camuscoffee11 6 месяцев назад +66

    The Borat effect 😂
    Jokes aside, best wishes to Kazakhstan from Georgia. Would seem kinda wild to an outsider but we were the same country not too long ago.

    • @eugenic12
      @eugenic12 6 месяцев назад +11

      Georgia is still poor unlike Kazakhstan though and the fertility rate is close to 0. So don't even compare both countries.

    • @FreeMan-uc7zx
      @FreeMan-uc7zx 6 месяцев назад +6

      And now hopefully we are good friends and neighbors (even though no borders :)
      Wishing Georgia and georgian ppl prosperity!

    • @Kimgangze
      @Kimgangze 6 месяцев назад +4

      We Georgian are kipchak cuman

    • @Kimgangze
      @Kimgangze 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@eugenic12Georgian are also kipchak cuman wtf

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you I wish the best for you too it's hard to see your struggles but you're strong🇰🇿🤝🇬🇪

  • @Evil_Incorporate
    @Evil_Incorporate Месяц назад +1

    The thing about Kazakhstan is that because of it's history of wars and famines caused by the Soviet Union this demographic increase is mostly a recovery from years of hardships.

  • @Diomedes-s2b
    @Diomedes-s2b 5 месяцев назад +9

    I wish Kazakhs good luck and best future! Greetings from Germany. I hope they will be free of russian influence some day which will bring Kazakhstan wealth and new development perspectives.

  • @VainakhQuranites
    @VainakhQuranites 6 месяцев назад +19

    I'm looking forward to a video on the Chechens and North Caucasians, whom have the highest birth rates in Russia. Specifically even more so the unique diaspora of Circassians, who have large populations in Turkey, Israel, Syria, and elsewhere. They have strict tribal clan affiliations even in modern times, often living insular preventing marriages with outsiders.

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 6 месяцев назад +1

      Circassians are almost extinct and Chechens have a very low population too so it makes sense for them even if they were not very religious.

    • @VainakhQuranites
      @VainakhQuranites 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@belstar1128 Almost extinct? There are over 5 million Circassians in the world. Chechens are a few million. They are more religious and have fertility rates around 3. Don’t forget the Ingush and Dagestanis.

    • @Kickboxer7267
      @Kickboxer7267 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@VainakhQuranitesCircassians in Turkey are nearly completely assimilated. Only some elders speak their native language. Without the diaspora in Turkey there are just 2 million Circassians left

    • @VainakhQuranites
      @VainakhQuranites 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Kickboxer7267 The language is declining in Turkey, but not so in other diaspora countries. In Turkey, there are several Circassian organizations keeping the culture and norms alive. It’s the language that’s hardest to maintain. It’s an uphill battle and the best course of action is for Circassians to return home.

    • @schneejacques3502
      @schneejacques3502 6 месяцев назад

      @@belstar1128 Yeah thanks to the Russian colonizers

  • @almas011
    @almas011 6 месяцев назад +9

    че то в последнее время очень много англо язычных видосов про казахстан

    • @АлькейАманжолов
      @АлькейАманжолов 3 месяца назад +1

      В условиях тотального мирового кризиса у богатейших стран мира усиливается желание ТЩАТЕЛЬНЕЙ изучать мировую географию с целью поиска хоть сколько-нибудь инвестиционно-привлекательных территорий.
      Англия ОЧЕНЬ сильно стала вкладывать в Центральную Азию в последние годы. На безрыбье и рак рыба.

  • @heartsofiron4ever
    @heartsofiron4ever 6 месяцев назад +1

    It always makes my day when you release a video, please keep at it!

  • @lucasdeclauser1862
    @lucasdeclauser1862 6 месяцев назад +6

    I find these central Asian countries so interesting: Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan. I really want to travel there

  • @geosimp3889
    @geosimp3889 6 месяцев назад +2

    As a Kazakh, I admit that you did a tremendous research and portrayed the situation pretty well. Nevertheless, I would like to make couple of notes:
    1) The west of Kazakhstan is relatively more traditional and nationalistic than the east. While it's true that the South is more traditional than the West of Kazakhstan, the West's Kishi Júz people follow more strictly kazakh traditions and face marriage more seriously, especially in rurban areas. Aqtau is our Oil capital that makes the majority of the GDP of the region, otherwise rurban areas are relatively poor.
    2) 14:56 it is Shymkent, not Shykment
    You made a really informative video. I learnt a lot about the reasons of our demographic miracle. Thank you!

  • @constantinejohn8433
    @constantinejohn8433 6 месяцев назад +11

    You'd rather not to take GDP per capita as a major metric for population's wealth. Usually in post-soviet countries, income from natural resources goes to the political center and is distributed from there to the provinces. So, people who live in resources-rich regions get almost nothing from it

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад

      Kazakhstan is better in this regard

    • @sapsaniy703
      @sapsaniy703 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@HasanaljadidIt really isn’t, especially considering how heavily Kazakh extraction industries rely on foreign companies and workers. For example, I would argue that Tatarstan gets far more out of it’s resources than atyrau or especially mangistau oblasts.

  • @dmitryshcherbakov3794
    @dmitryshcherbakov3794 6 месяцев назад +6

    16:12 this actually kinda makes sense: Oil drilling produces more revenue, but it doesn't mean that the region it takes place in necessarily directly benefits from it, with actual money from said activities flowing towards economic centers of the country, but the region itself staying fairly rural. Another example of that is Russia and it's oil producing regions: they produce a lot of revenue, but the actual population there is still fairly rural.

    • @vmoses1979
      @vmoses1979 6 месяцев назад

      But the rural population in Russia is not having 3 or 4 kids like the Kazakhs. Your theory does not hold up.

    • @TOBI-sr4mo
      @TOBI-sr4mo 6 месяцев назад

      @@vmoses1979 in kazakhstan a poorness of region correlate with religiosity-paleoconservatism.
      in russian rural region they're westernized.

    • @vmoses1979
      @vmoses1979 6 месяцев назад

      @@TOBI-sr4mo That's my point. Rural is not a key factor. The OP is just dead wrong. It is religion and culture.

    • @TOBI-sr4mo
      @TOBI-sr4mo 6 месяцев назад

      @@vmoses1979 yea, but it's mean that kaiserbauch wrong about "wow look at that, they are rich, educated, and having high fertility"
      in fact in kazakhstan no one conventional theory was debunked.
      regions with high fertility is very rural, VERY conservative and religious.
      in almaty(last capital) there are 1.9 children per woman. its including religious people.
      secular educated woman in kazakhstan have around 2 kids and it's decreasing.
      and there is point that secular-educated woman in kazakhstan will be consider as conservative in europe.

    • @TOBI-sr4mo
      @TOBI-sr4mo 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@vmoses1979 in kazakhstan there are no secular-liberals in west definition.
      there are ultra-conservatives(in african-middle eastern way) with fertility around 4.5
      and "secular people" that is similar to american conservatives. with fertility 2
      when kaiserbauch telling that kazakhstan is example of secular educated country that broke all fertility forecasts - it's funny, cuz it's not.
      dry tables from wikipedia is without context...

  • @TennessisET
    @TennessisET 6 месяцев назад +10

    I used to be brainwashed liberal child free woman, and now I regret it so much.
    I now motivate my little brother and sister to have more children and even share my earning with them. Last month I sold one of my apartments so my little brother could buy house for himself. In near future I'll do that for my sister.
    So yeah, I support my nation in getting more children, cos times when government system will collapse aren't far. The existing system will disappear in 10-20 years, and we won't have anyone to rely beside our families.
    So guys, hold tight to your families. It's the only community you can count on.

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад +1

      Even if that community is abusive, toxic and neglectful? No thanks, I'd rather carry by my own and take care of myself

    • @timkaz8793
      @timkaz8793 5 месяцев назад

      @@chisaki703, I regret that you experienced some problems in your life. And your point of view was probably based on western propaganda and feminism. Also these anime/K-pop culture kills me. This is the way to abyss. It may lead you to nowhere.
      You should accept our family culture with many children and men being a leader in family. Probably you grew up without father. Also, I cannot understand your hatred against Islam, if you have lived under its teachings you would thrive as me and many of my friends.

    • @TennessisET
      @TennessisET 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@chisaki703 you can take care of yourself within existing system. when the system collapses you won't survive on your own.
      People always need other people.
      And there's no non-toxic people. Everyone has own flaws. Overcoming these obstacles and finding common ground is the meaning of communication afterall.
      But if you insist to stay alone, then stay alone. I'm not gonna try hard to change your mind. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion afterall.
      But I don't know why woke people expect others to trip over themselves to help those wokes, when the said wokes judge others hard and refuse to move finger for others.
      Even their "education" is aggressive and unpleasant ((((((((((

  • @internetuser2721
    @internetuser2721 6 месяцев назад +14

    It might simply be a product of randomness. Modernity-induced fertility decline is quite a universal feature, but it's not impossible that there might be exceptions, that is, populations who do not react to modernity by adopting maladaptively low fertility. It's similar to how there are still some individuals who choose to have 4+ children even when exposed to a modern environment even among western native populations. This is likely explained by individual psychological variation, and since groups are collections of individuals, this variation can also apply on a group level.

    • @vmoses1979
      @vmoses1979 6 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly. Randomness is a joke answer.

    • @internetuser2721
      @internetuser2721 6 месяцев назад +2

      By randomness I meant there might be some unique psychological features among the Kazakhs (and maybe also other Central Asians) that we do not know of which make them more resistant to modernity-induced decadence. If we are unable to find definite cultural factors that explain their abnormally high fertility, as was the conclusion of this video, then what I proposed seems like the most plausible explanation.

    • @internetuser2721
      @internetuser2721 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@traumvonhaiti What explains this culture/mentality that incentivizes them to have 4 children instead of 0 or 1? Why has it persisted in Kazakhstan but not in almost any other country? If we lived in 1900, you could easily say that most western people are extremely family oriented, whereas nowadays they are degenerates. I've no doubt westerners in 1900 also "passed down their family values onto the next generation", but that didn't prevent the cultural sterility from emerging nonetheless. So something explains why this shift has not taken place in Kazakhstan as opposed to much of the modern world.

    • @communist754
      @communist754 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@traumvonhaiti Mentality isn't something unchangeable. 100 years ago, everyone had a family-oriented mentality, there is nothing special about that. What is special is why Kazakhs did not change their mentality while others did.

    • @communist754
      @communist754 6 месяцев назад

      @@traumvonhaiti >>genocide by russians
      That's obvious bullshit. Famine was not "engineered" - there is no historical evidence of it, and the academic consensus is shifting more and more towards the opinion that it was a result of poor harvest coupled with government ineptitude and mismanagement. The famine hit the Slavic regions of Russian Povolzhie and Ukraine just as much as the Kazakh SSR. Framing it as genocide is pure historical revisionism to farm oppression brownie points. Don't overdo it, or you risk ending up like Ukraine.

  • @user-uf2df6zf5w
    @user-uf2df6zf5w 6 месяцев назад +7

    I have heard that this is mainly the case, because certain clan structures are still intact. Young people have access to many, especially older, relatives, who are helping to raise kids.

    • @TarlanT
      @TarlanT 6 месяцев назад +12

      Yes. Good or bad, but you are never alone in Kazakh society.
      You’re always supported by and responsible to your family and extended family as well.
      We don’t even have equivalent word for western - cousin.
      We only have - brother/sister.
      You’d hardly see any homeless person in Kazakhstan.

    • @chisaki703
      @chisaki703 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@TarlanT there's enough homeless beggars mostly elderly women on the streets of Almaty

  • @floriaxonasaphroxilanthopo4904
    @floriaxonasaphroxilanthopo4904 24 дня назад +2

    Used to know a Kazhak-Greek girl from University. Most beautiful and good person i've ever known

  • @dywanik1
    @dywanik1 6 месяцев назад +3

    Great video, as always! I would gladly see a video on Czech demography and why it's been somewhat best in Europe. Pretty please!

  • @qfpan6426
    @qfpan6426 6 месяцев назад +22

    The key reasons absolutely do not stem from traditional families or communities, and certainly not from patriarchy. Otherwise, East Asia wouldn't have ended up the way it is today.
    1.In East Asia, grandparents are definitely willing to help take care of children, often providing substantial financial support as well.
    2.Even as traditional extended families break down, East Asian couples can still count on support from both sets of grandparents, which can at least help in raising two children.
    Kazakhstan's fertility rate exceeding 3 may indeed rely on support from traditional extended families, but first and foremost, Kazakhstan must overcome the obstacles faced by East Asia, whatever they may be.
    Traditional and conservative family cultures might marginally aid Kazakhstan's fertility, but they cannot be absolute factors.

    • @thomasgrabkowski8283
      @thomasgrabkowski8283 6 месяцев назад +9

      Religion, as well as educational and work culture also play a role. Firstly, Kazakhstan does not have such a intense education system that does not basically force parents to spend a huge amount of money on private tutoring for their kids. They don’t work very long hours to the point of barely being able to see your children if you even bother to have them. Finally religion, Kazakhs are Muslim with Islam heavily emphasising large families, in contrast to largely irreligious East Asia

    • @qfpan6426
      @qfpan6426 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@thomasgrabkowski8283 Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking too.
      I've seen discussions about how traditional family cultures supposedly boost birth rates, but I think these traditions are largely religious in nature. It is that Islam encourages Kazakhs to have children, which is something not found in East Asia.
      Also, of course, traditional East Asian practices in certain aspects actually encourage family planning instead, which likely don't exist among Kazakhs.

    • @thomasgrabkowski8283
      @thomasgrabkowski8283 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@qfpan6426 Furthermore, East Asian traditions are rooted in Buddhism, which doesn’t emphasize the importance of large families unlike Islam

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +4

      Islam doesn’t emphasize large family per se. It does however emphasize strictly defined gender roles, so men are expected to be men and women - to be women. That helps to sustain the traditional family

    • @qfpan6426
      @qfpan6426 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@АлишерОрынбек-б8д You are on point. Islam plays a much stronger role in reinforcing gender differences.
      Although the video mentioned extensive education for women during the Soviet era, Kazakh women perhaps still face significant societal pressures to fulfill traditional reproductive roles, rather than focusing more on pursuing their careers like women in East Asia do.

  • @SamSam-qk5zr
    @SamSam-qk5zr 6 месяцев назад +19

    I think the x factor is the "endogamous communitarian family structure" that creates a family unit that is less predisposed to interact with the broader society. So it maintained more traditional roles.
    In the meantime the exogamous communitarian is very "father dependant" so once the fathers role declines the rest of the structure just falls apart, and that's what happened in eastern europe and Russia.

    • @gregvanpaassen
      @gregvanpaassen 6 месяцев назад +5

      But Kazakhstan has the exogamous variant. I agree that having a lot of support from other family makes it easier for a mother to raise children. But women being able to choose their husbands rather than being forced to marry their cousins might also be a factor.
      I think another part of the difference is that Kazakhstan is focused on building things, not playing status games with university degrees and so on. The most status conscious city, the "hipster city" as KB called it, has the lowest fertility.
      I agree that if Kazakhstan goes to the "neolocal nuclear family" structure (newly married couples move away from their families, for work or whatever), like other rich countries, then fertility will collapse.

    • @aidaismailowa3698
      @aidaismailowa3698 6 месяцев назад

      You are confusing Kazakhs with Uzbeks. Kazakhs have always been famously exogamous.

    • @PowerSimplified1871
      @PowerSimplified1871 6 месяцев назад

      @@aidaismailowa3698 Aren't Uzbeks also exogamous?

    • @АлишерОрынбек-б8д
      @АлишерОрынбек-б8д 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@PowerSimplified1871Uzbeks are a diverse bunch, there are Uzbeks that can trace their origin to traditional nomadic tribes which are the same as Kazaks. But majority of them are of sedentary farming extraction which was Farsi / Tajik speaking and was superficially turkified only in the last 100-150 years,and is culturally close to Middle East sedentary populations, which is endogamous.

    • @Musa-al-Khwarazmi
      @Musa-al-Khwarazmi 6 месяцев назад

      the only meaningful factor is the lack of liberalism. however, the past few years liberals are actively promoting their liberalism in Kstan

  • @dzhuliabespalova3629
    @dzhuliabespalova3629 5 месяцев назад +3

    I think it’s something to do with national generational trauma, it might sound crazy but the nation actually went through genocide in the previous century… something like a push back

  • @Leo-bv7my
    @Leo-bv7my 6 месяцев назад +17

    Thank you for making a video about Kazakhstan, I am from Europe am I am a big fan of this country.

  • @TheDragonofRevelation
    @TheDragonofRevelation 12 дней назад +1

    I am very late but after listening to your vudeos I have come to the conclusion that if Israel and Kazakhstan have four commonalities - both allow women to do as they please (which is naturally anti-natal as women tend to distrust men) but both Israel and Kazakhstan have three other things in common - pro-natalism, a strong support system by both family and the state AND either strong religious views OR a very strong economy. The men in Kazakh cities earning $40,000.00 or more in a country where the cost of living is increidbly low is a BOON to fertility rates. I live in the United States and I earn what the Kazakh in the cities are earning. The difference between them and I is probably night and day. In America, you'd be licky to survive earning $40,000.00 while in Kazakhstan I am sure that you could support a huge family with that kind of money.
    I am so glad to see that the central Asians are going to be okay. 😁

  • @SyedWadud-n6p
    @SyedWadud-n6p 6 месяцев назад +25

    Next Video about Georgia(Country).

    • @camuscoffee11
      @camuscoffee11 6 месяцев назад +9

      As a Georgian, I'd love to watch. Here we have a curious case of somewhat recovered, about replacement-level fertility (after disastrous 90s and early 00s) but huge emigration (incl. but not limited to ethnic minorities migrating to their titular nation-states) causing the population to decline with each national census. Reasons, I think, are that our region and geopolitics are highly volatile, our economy is hopelessly shit and despite our (on surface level) religiosity and conservatism we are still hit with negative effects of modernization (women in education and workforce, increasing urbanization etc). Furthermore, these had somewhat limited Georgian fertility even during the last 10-15 years of USSR, compared to our neighbors in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    • @VisiblyPinkUnicorn
      @VisiblyPinkUnicorn 6 месяцев назад

      @@camuscoffee11 And you're also governed by -Georgian Nightmare- -Russian Dream- Georgian Dream.

    • @camuscoffee11
      @camuscoffee11 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@VisiblyPinkUnicorn Please don't remind me of our political scene. One more reason out of a thousand in Georgia to get shitfaced drunk and try and forget it exists at all.

    • @GODOBER
      @GODOBER 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@camuscoffee11 1.7 isn't about replacement-level lmfao

    • @SyedWadud-n6p
      @SyedWadud-n6p 6 месяцев назад

      @@camuscoffee11 But after some years it became below the Sub Replacement Rate. Georgians should get more kids and sustain the Sub Replacement Rate.

  • @inakipondal489
    @inakipondal489 6 месяцев назад +2

    Amazing Video! Thank you so much for making a video of Central Asia!

  • @Sergio_752
    @Sergio_752 6 месяцев назад +22

    As we always saying in Russia, Kazakhs are superhumans

    • @bertrecht913
      @bertrecht913 6 месяцев назад

      Where in Russia? In Russia many says "chorny bashka" 😂😂😂

    • @Sergio_752
      @Sergio_752 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@bertrecht913 hmm, why people would say "black head" about Kazakhs? I could imagine something more rude or something more funny but that are you saying doesn't make sense for me

    • @bertrecht913
      @bertrecht913 6 месяцев назад

      @@Sergio_752 superhumans makes even less sense 😂

    • @Sergio_752
      @Sergio_752 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@bertrecht913 it's called irony

    • @Hasanaljadid
      @Hasanaljadid 6 месяцев назад

      Not Russia

  • @Jaba22-t7y
    @Jaba22-t7y 6 месяцев назад +15

    Can you do Italy and Spain next?

  • @hibrooell
    @hibrooell 6 месяцев назад +8

    Sasha baron cohen was born in israel then assumed kazakhy identity and both countries has large fertility rates.
    coincidence? I think not

    • @maxh7637
      @maxh7637 6 месяцев назад +2

      nah, you better compare cohen's people with gypsies

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 6 месяцев назад +35

    Let's hope Russia doesn't have other plans for Kazakhstan like they did for Ukraine.

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 6 месяцев назад +17

      Kazakhstan is not threat to Russia but also it's so beneficial for the Russian economy to maintain Kazakhstan in its current form
      For businesses and sanctions evasion and cheap labor and ....

    • @rikuran7042
      @rikuran7042 6 месяцев назад +8

      Tell me you have no idea about their relationship without saying it directly.

    • @Pythoner
      @Pythoner 6 месяцев назад +14

      If Kazakhstan doesn't become a NATO military outpost against Russia then I don't see why Russia would intervene

    • @CenturionKZ
      @CenturionKZ 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@baha3alshamari152 so Ukraine was a thread to Russia?

    • @CenturionKZ
      @CenturionKZ 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@rikuran7042 what relationship? You deny that RuZZia tries to recolonize former USSR states?