The quality of life of the population in Kazakhstan in 2020

According to the results of a sample survey of households on the questionnaire “Quality of life of the population”, 63.5% of respondents (subjectively assessed) are satisfied with their life in general, while in rural areas there are significantly more satisfied (72.6%) than in urban (58.4%).

Compared with the same survey of the previous year, the level of satisfaction with the life of respondents increased significantly (in 2019 - 60%).

50.1% of respondents are satisfied with their health, 45.7% are partially satisfied. Moreover, the older the respondents, the lower the percentage of those who are satisfied with their health and among respondents in retirement age that are 2.8 times less than among the age group of 15-17 years.

More than half of the respondents (62.5%) indicated that they were confident in the moral support of relatives or acquaintances, while men and women were almost unanimous in their opinion that they would receive moral support if necessary (63.0% and 62.1%, respectively).

It should be noted that, of the proposed list of providers of basic public services, respondents are most satisfied with the quality of services provided by emergency centers –53.4% of respondents. At the same time, in comparison with the survey results of the previous year, the level of respondents' satisfaction with the quality of services provided by the police this year increased by 5 percentage points, and amounted to 43.2%.

The level of satisfaction of respondents with their financial situation this year increased by 5.7 percentage points and amounted to 41.6%.According to the level of material security (affluence), 63.3% of the respondents identified themselves as having an average level of security, 0.7% of the respondents identified themselves as having a high level of security, and only 0.3% of the respondents indicated a low level of security.

According to the survey, 21.5% of respondents are satisfied with the opportunity to purchase housing on their own, 40% are partially satisfied, while 28.9% of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with state support in providing housing (improving housing conditions).

40% of respondents positively think about their promising future, suggest that there will be an improvement in the future 34%, and only 0.1% of respondents think that they will live worse.

www.stat.gov.kz / The official statistica / By industry / Statistics of standard of living

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