Kazakhstanis’ pension savings totalled 28.30 trillion tenge as of October 1, 2026, up 2.60 trillion tenge, or 10%, over the previous 12 months.
Mandatory pension contributions accounted for most of the total, reaching 26.13 trillion tenge. They rose by 1.73 trillion tenge, or 7.1%, over the year. Mandatory occupational pension contributions amounted to 732.80 billion tenge.
Voluntary pension savings grew by 6.4% over 12 months to 10.35 billion tenge. Employer-mandated pension contributions increased 2.4-fold to 1,429.89 billion tenge. Transfers of these contributions began on January 1, 2024.
Contributions totalling 2,738.10 billion tenge were credited to individual and conditional pension accounts in January-September 2026, up 15.7% from the same period a year earlier. Net investment income credited since the start of the year amounted to 882.28 billion tenge.
Payments from the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund and transfers to insurance companies reached 1,402.37 billion tenge in January-September. Age-related payments totalled 223.61 billion tenge, while the average monthly scheduled payment for reaching retirement age was 39,028 tenge.
The fund had 19.11 million pension accounts as of October 1. These included 12.90 million individual accounts belonging to contributors and recipients, and 6.21 million conditional accounts tracking employer contributions.
