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.
Most savings came from mandatory pension contributions, which reached 26.13 trillion tenge after rising by 1.73 trillion tenge, or 7.1%, in a year. Mandatory occupational pension contributions totalled 732.80 billion tenge, while voluntary contributions rose 6.4% to 10.35 billion tenge.
Savings from employers’ mandatory pension contributions increased 2.4-fold over the year to 1,429.89 billion tenge. The contributions began to be transferred on January 1, 2024.
From January to September 2026, 2,738.10 billion tenge in contributions was deposited into individual and conditional pension accounts. That was 15.7%, or 371.90 billion tenge, more than during the same period a year earlier. Net investment income credited to accounts since the start of the year amounted to 882.28 billion tenge.
Payments from the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund across all contribution types, together with transfers to insurance companies, totalled 1,402.37 billion tenge in the first nine months of 2026. Age-based payments amounted to 223.61 billion tenge, while the average monthly scheduled payment upon reaching retirement age was 39,028 tenge.
The fund had 19.11 million pension accounts on October 1. Of these, 12.90 million were individual accounts belonging to contributors and recipients, while 6.21 million were conditional accounts recording employers’ mandatory pension contributions.
