According to the 2009 Census, 70% of the population is Muslim, 26% Christian, 0.2% Buddhist, 0.1% other religions (mostly Jewish), and 3% irreligious, while 0.5% chose not to answer.[
Islam is the largest religion practiced in Kazakhstan, with estimates of about 70.2% of the country’s population being Muslim. Ethnic Kazakhs are predominantly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school. ... Geographically speaking, Kazakhstan is the northernmost Muslim-majority country in the world.