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Kazakhstan Energy Information

Kazakhstan Key Figures

Population:
19.8 million
GDP growth rate:
5.10 %/year
Energy independence:
100%

Data of the last year available: 2023

Total consumption/GDP:*
61.3 (2005=100)
CO2 Emissions:
14.2 tCO2/capita
Rate of T&D power losses:
11.6%

* at purchasing power parity

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Kazakhstan Total Energy Consumption

Per capita consumption is about 4.5 toe and around 4 870 kWh of electricity (2023). This is slightly above the CIS average (+12% and +2%, respectively). The energy intensity of GDP has more than halved since 1992 but is still three times higher than the average EU level.

Total energy consumption rebounded by 2.7% in 2023, after remaining stable in 2022. It decreased slightly over 2010-2019 (-0.5%/year).

Graph: CONSUMPTION TRENDS BY ENERGY SOURCE (Mtoe)

Interactive Chart Kazakhstan Total Energy Consumption

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Kazakhstan Crude Oil Production

Oil production increased by 6.8% in 2023 to 92 Mt, after averaging 86 Mt since 2020. The country's OPEC+ quota and voluntary cuts for 2023 amounted to 81.4 Mt in 2023, and was exceeded by 11.5%. In November 2023, Kazakhstan announced additional voluntary cuts of 82 kb/d during the first quarter of 2024 (later extended until the end of the second quarter of 2024). In June 2024, the OPEC+ set a required production level in the country of 1,628 kb/d (81.4 Mt) for 2025. Oil production decreased by 5% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, after a 5.1%/year rise between 2016 and 2019 (91 Mt).

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Kazakhstan Renewable in % Electricity Production

The National Programme of Wind Power Sector Development set wind generation targets of 900 GWh in 2015 (700 GWh achieved) and 5 TWh in 2024. In 2023, 3.8 TWh of wind energy was generated (up from 2.4 GWh in 2022).

According to the 2050 Strategy (2013), solar and wind were meant to account for 3% of the power mix by 2020 (2% reached in 2020) and about 10% by 2030 (5.1% reached in 2023). In 2021, the government raised the 2030 target to 15%. By 2050, the country aims to generate 50% of its power from "alternative (i.e. nuclear) or renewable sources".

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Kazakhstan CO2 Fuel Combustion/CO2 Emissions

In its first NDC (2015, updated in June 2023 with the same objective), the country set an unconditional target to reduce GHG emissions to 15% below 1990 levels by 2030 and a conditional target of 25%. In 2020, the government announced an unconditional target to reach carbon neutrality by 2060.

CO2 emissions from energy combustion more than doubled between 2000 and 2013, before decreasing and stabilising around 280 MtCO2 since 2021, reaching 281 MtCO2 in 2023.

Graph: CO2-ENERGY EMISSIONS (MtCO2)