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Population of Kazakhs in Kazakhstan is around 12 million ( 1/3 are Russians and other ethnic minorities) while population of Japan is 120 million people. Population of Turkey is 80 million.
Also Kazakhs are historically nomadic people who have less industrial skills than farmers of East Asia.
Turkey and Japan have access to sea and ocean which significantly boosts trade, tourism and economy.
In ancient times Central Asia was powerful due to Silk Road which was the major trade route in the world between China and Europe. When Europeans found sea route from Europe to Asia in Medieval times Silk Road became useless.
Don't expect from Kazakhstan to prosper because of harsh cold climate, small population and trapped isolated geographical position. Also Kazakhs are rather lazy due to monotonous nomadic life style.
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So apart from Kazakhstan, how is the rest of CA in terms of progress?
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It's complicated. The power vacuum after URSS fell made pure chaos there. Most countried have some kind of dictator, mainly Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
Turkmenistan is almost North Korea 2.0 except they don't flag a communist slogan, therefore they gather less attention. Tajikistan at least has a dictator who tries to hold Islamic fundamentalism, but have other problems about unrests between Pamiris and the central government. Tajikistan also faces a big problem in terms of investments and China is using this as a method to invest as they are doing in Africa, except we're talking about a neighbour country, which is worse.
Uzbekistan is a bit better than both and at least try to make things by itself.
Also, all those countries have huge corruption levels. Even more than some South/Central American countries.
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