As of January 2018, the population of the five Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, reached a landmark figure of 71 million people. Uzbekistan, being the most populated country in the region, has a population of 32.12 million people, followed by Kazakhstan with 18.16 million people, while the population of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan is 8.99 million, 6.2 million and 5.55 million, respectively.