According to statistics from the European Union, the actual population has been reduced by at least 230,000 people who emigrated into European Union member states between 1998 and 2011.[8] Further Albanian news sources estimated at October 2012 that the real population is closer to the sum of 1,744,237 people who are accounted within all of the health funds of the country.[9][10] According to Bozhidar Dimitrov, the Bulgarian authorities have granted 87,000 to many of those emigrants a Bulgarian passport, as of 2012, which requires that they declare to be ethnic Bulgarians.[11][12] Since Bulgaria's entry into the European Union, and under pressure from fellow European Union members, Bulgaria imposed more stringent rules and measures for the acquisition of a Bulgarian citizenship and passport.
The provisions of the Ohrid agreement to elevate any minority language if the minority in question is above 20% of the population of any municipality into a co-official language for that municipality has created friction within the government, and between officials of different political and ethnic interests, resulting in the indefinite postponement of the census for almost twenty years until it was finally conducted in 2021.[13]
Vital statistics
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Source: State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia[16]
Population Data for period 2003-2020 was revised by the Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia [17]
Current vital statistics
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Marriages and divorces
Ethnic groups
The process of industrialization and urbanization after the Second World War that caused the population growth to decrease involved the ethnic Macedonians to a greater extent than Muslims. Rates of increase were very high among rural Muslims: Turks and Torbesh (Macedonian Muslims) had rates 2.5 times those of the Macedonian majority, while Roma had rates 3 times as high. In 1994, Macedonians had a TFR of 2.07, while the TFR of others were: Albanian (2.10), Turkish (3.55), Roma (4.01), Serb (2.07), Vlachs (1.88) and Others (3.05). The TFR by religions was: Christian (2.17, with 2.20 for Catholics and 2.06 for Orthodox), Islam (4.02) and others (2.16).[28]
However, it is unlikely that this high minority TFR has continued since then in North Macedonia, as Balkan fertility elsewhere (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo) has dropped sharply toward the European average. A more recent survey[29] pegs Muslim fertility in North Macedonia at 1.7, versus 1.5 for non-Muslims.
Ethnic structure of SR Macedonia by settlements 1961.
Ethnic structure of SR Macedonia by settlements 1971.
Ethnic structure of SR Macedonia by settlements 1981.
Ethnic structure of SR Macedonia by settlements 1991.
Ethnic structure of SR Macedonia by settlements 1991.
Ethnic structure of R. Macedonia by settlements 1994.
Ethnic structure of R. Macedonia by settlements 2002.
Ethnic structure of R. North Macedonia by settlements 2021.
In 2017, 21,754 children were born in North Macedonia. The ethnic affiliation of these newborns was: 11,260 (51.76%) Macedonian; 7,404 (34.03%) Albanian; 940 (4.32%) Turkish; 1,276 (5.87%) Roma; 40 (0.18%) Vlach; 129 (0.59%) Serbian; 213 (0.98%) Bosniaks; 492 (2,26%) other ethnic affiliation and unknown.[32][33] In the school year 2016/2017 there were 192 715 students in elementary schools from which 104,756 (55%) were Macedonian, and 60,971 (32%) were Albanian, and in High schools there were 72 482 students from which 43,658 (60.1%) were Macedonian and 22 419 (30.9%) were Albanians. Furthermore, in 1999 Albanians accounted for 34.6% of newborns and 26.1% of students who finished high school in 2016, which was regulated by the Ministry of Education.
Languages
Source:[40]
Religion
Source:[42]
CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
Age structure
0–14 years: 19.5% (male 210,078; female 203,106)
15–64 years: 67.8% (male 707,298; female 696,830)
65 years and over: 12.7% (male 97,437; female 124,661) (2004 est)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
15–64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total: 11.74 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 10.73 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)
male: 12.67 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 74.73 years
male: 72.45 years
female: 77.2 years (2004 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.50 children born/woman (2015 est.)[44]
HIV/AIDS
adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
people living with HIV/AIDS: less than 100 (1999 est.)
deaths: less than 100 (2001 est.)
Nationality
noun: Macedonian/citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia[45]
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