to complement zhumasultanov s estimates for the recent period table provides a corrected urbanisation rate that neutralises the effect of shymkent and almaty city s territorial expansions in and the main conclusion is that without this large reclassification of rural inhabitants to urban status the urbanisation rate would have grown at a much slower pace reaching an estimated at the beginning of while the official urbanisation rate was in and the new urban residents in shymkent and almaty city were subtracted from urban population