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Kazakhstan

Nothing unusualScore 1Open the map

Violence in the news: 3 reports in the week to Oct 20, 2026 · ×0.5 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Protests in the news: 1 reports in the week to Oct 20, 2026 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Level, last 60 days

  • Deaths 30 d

    0

    UCDP up to 2026-09-30

  • Per million 90 d

    –

    last 90 days

  • Civilians

    –

    last 90 days

  • Incidents 30 d

    0

  • Population

    20.8 M

    World Bank

  • Plants near violence

    0 / 5

    near violence / total; 0 nuclear

Why this level1

  • +15 extreme weather warnings in force from the national weather serviceWMO Severe Weather Information Centre

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Every monitored signal

The last 60 days, each on its own scale.

  • Severe weather warnings in force

    41

  • Refugees who fled

    10 755

  • Extreme weather warnings in force

    5

  • Natural hazards, 7 days

    1

  • Confirmed outages, places, 24 h

    9

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Deaths in organised violence, per week

Kazakhstan, UCDP best estimates. The red bar is the latest week.

The latest week may be incomplete.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-09-30

Who the violence is between

Deaths by kind of violence, last 90 days of data.

  • State-based conflict · 0%
  • Non-state conflict · 0%
  • Against civilians · 0%

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Food, displacement, sanctions

People in food crisis (IPC 3+)
–
2026-09
Share in food crisis
–
2026-09
Undernourishment
2.5%
2024
Refugees who fled
10,755
2025
Refugees hosted
4,540
2025
Internally displaced
–
2025
Sanctions designations
75
2026-10-21
GDP per person
$14,692
2025

FEWS NET · World Bank / FAO · UNHCR · OpenSanctions

People in crisis-level food insecurity

FEWS NET does not cover this country.

Latest incidents of organised violence0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-09-30

Conflicts, 90 days0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Natural hazards, 30 days1

  • WildfireForest fires in Kazakhstan · Oct 2, 2026

GDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Warnings and notices

UK FCDO: Kazakhstan: No specific restriction

Kazakhstan: 41 extreme weather warnings

• Forestfire – Extreme ×16 • Wind – Severe ×25

UK FCDO · WMO · WHO · Copernicus EMS

Next 7 days in Astana

Day°CRainGustsWatch
Wed, Oct 213…70.0 mm62 km/h
Thu, Oct 221…50.2 mm55 km/h
Fri, Oct 23-4…10.8 mm39 km/h
Sat, Oct 24-4…20.0 mm21 km/h
Sun, Oct 25-3…60.0 mm23 km/h
Mon, Oct 26-1…70.0 mm16 km/h
Tue, Oct 27-1…80.0 mm18 km/h

Forecast for the capital only; marks: heat ≥38 °C, frost ≤−20 °C, rain ≥50 mm, gusts ≥75 km/h, thunderstorms. Official warnings are above.

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Food prices in markets5

ItemPriceUSDYear
Potatoes / KG117 KZT0.28+11%
Wheat flour (first grade) / KG241.5 KZT0.56+9%
Meat (beef) / KG2,008 KZT4.67+11%
Oil (sunflower) / L566.5 KZT1.31+24%
Milk / L229 KZT0.53+10%

Median retail price across markets in the latest month reported (2020-11); change against the same month a year before.

WFP · HDX (CC BY-IGO)

Disasters since 20002

012000: 020002001: 02002: 02003: 02004: 02005: 020052006: 02007: 02008: 02009: 02010: 020102011: 02012: 02013: 02014: 02015: 020152016: 02017: 02018: 02019: 02020: 020202021: Droughts 12022: 02023: 02024: Floods 12025: 020252026: 02026

FloodsDroughts

  • Flood in Kazakhstan · Mar 28, 2024 · Magnitude 0
  • Drought in Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan · Apr 21, 2021 · Medium impact for agricultural drought in 979473 km2

GDACS (orange and red alerts since 2000)