The research of demographical indicators of the population’s quality of life for sustainable development of Almaty region

¹ Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Department of Geography, Land Management and Cadastre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
² Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: gulnaran@mail.ru

Abstract

Sustainable socio-economic development of the region can be achieved only if the strategic priority of development is a socially significant goal-improving the quality of life of the population. A system of quality of life’s indicators includes both objective characteristics of a person or society, their life and standards of it and subjective estimated characteristics, that show subject’s attitude to his life’s realities. Demographical indicators, that characterize regularities of human reproduction, take an important place in the system of indicators, that determine quality of life. The “Concept of sustainable development” itself has a direct reproductive content and implies sustainable reproduction of a person, his quality parameters and living conditions, consistent with the laws of development and the principles of conservation of the natural environment. The issues of improving demographic indicators of the quality of life of the population are particularly relevant for the Almaty region – a region with a high demographic and labor potential, which plays an important role in the socio-economic and geopolitical development of the Republic, as a region with an agricultural orientation, occupying a transit position.