As of August 1, 2026, Kazakhstan's pension savings in the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund (UAPF) have surpassed 28 trillion tenge, including investment income. Over the past year, the volume of savings grew by 14.1%, and the number of open accounts reached 18.89 million, up 6.3% in 12 months, reports infohub.kz.
The bulk of pension savings consists of mandatory pension contributions (MPC) — 26.31 trillion tenge, up 11.4% year-on-year. These funds are distributed across 11.39 million accounts, with an average of 2.3 million tenge per contributor.
Mandatory professional pension contributions (MPPC), paid for workers in hazardous industries, exceeded 751.56 billion tenge (up 6.6%). They are held in 789.48 thousand accounts, with an average savings of 952 thousand tenge.
Savings from voluntary pension contributions (VPC) continue to grow: their volume reached 10.41 billion tenge, up 14.9% over the year. For VPC, 463.69 thousand accounts have been opened, with an average size of 22.5 thousand tenge.
Notably, savings from the new mandatory employer pension contribution (MEPC) grew 2.5 times, reaching 1.27 trillion tenge. These funds are recorded on 6.06 million conditional pension accounts, averaging 210.2 thousand tenge per contributor.
From January to July 2026, payments from the UAPF for all types of contributions and transfers to insurance organizations totaled 1.08 trillion tenge. Pensioners received 170.95 billion tenge, with the average monthly payment upon reaching retirement age at 38,993 tenge.
Lump-sum payments for housing improvements and treatment since the beginning of the year amounted to 435.20 billion tenge, inheritance payments — 63.06 billion, for relocation abroad — 28.13 billion, for persons with disabilities — 2.05 billion, and for burial — 5.56 billion tenge. Transfers to insurance organizations for pension annuities totaled 378.56 billion tenge.
It is worth recalling that the yield of the new pension contribution was twice the inflation rate in Kazakhstan. Earlier, the UAPF explained why Kazakhstanis need to save for retirement on their own.