Demographics of the Republic of Macedonia

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Republic of Macedonia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populous, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Demographics of Macedonia
Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.
Population	2 062 294 (2012)^[1]
Growth rate	0.16% (2012)
Birth rate	11.4 per 1,000 (2012)
Death rate	9.8 per 1,000 (2012)
Life expectancy	74.73 years (2010)
• male	70.30 years (2012)
• female	74.4 years (2012)
Fertility rate	1.51 live births per woman (2012)
Infant mortality rate	9.8 per 1,000 (2012)
Net migration rate	0.51 per 1,000 (2012)
Age structure
0–14 years	17.1% (2012)
15–64 years	71.0% (2011)
65 and over	11.9% (2012)
Sex ratio
At birth	1.08 male(s)/female (2012)
Under 15	1.08 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
15–64 years	1.02 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
65 and over	0.78 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Nationality
Nationality	noun: Macedonian(s) adjective: Macedonian
Major ethnic	Macedonians (64.2%) (2002)
Minor ethnic	Albanians (25.2%) (2002) Turks 3.86% (2002) Romani 2.66% (2002) Serbs 1.78% (2002) Bosniaks 0.84% (2002) Aromanians 0.48% (2002)
Language
Official	Macedonian
Spoken	Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Serbian, Bosnian, Aromanian

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Total population

2,022,547 (2002 census)
2,038,514 (2006 est. [dead link])
2,057,284 (2010)
2,071,532 (2015)

European statistics, estimates from health insurance funds and no census in sight

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.^[2] 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.^[3]^[4] According to Bozhidar Dimitrov, the Bulgarian authorities have granted 87.000 to many of those emigrants a Bulgarian passport, as of 2012, because they declared to be ethnic Bulgarians.^[5]^[6] Since Bulgarias' entry in the European Union, and under pressure from fellow European Union members, Bulgaria imposed more stringent rules for the acquisition of a Bulgarian 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^[7] has created friction within the government, and between officials of different political and ethnic interests, resulting to the indefinite postponement of the census which started at 2011. Since no funds have been allocated for a census in the state budget of 2014, there is no expectation for a census before 2015.^[8]

Vital statistics^[9]^[10]

	Average population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Fertility rates
1947	1 134	40 000	17 400	22 600	35.3	15.3	19.9
1948	1 162	42 900	18 600	24 300	36.9	16.0	20.9
1949	1 192	46 400	18 900	27 500	38.9	15.9	23.1
1950	1 230	49 560	18 023	31 537	40.3	14.7	25.6
1951	1 267	45 329	20 747	24 582	35.8	16.4	19.4
1952	1 298	51 054	17 978	33 076	39.3	13.9	25.5
1953	1 322	49 665	19 312	30 353	37.6	14.6	23.0
1954	1 341	50 984	16 722	34 262	38.0	12.5	25.5
1955	1 354	49 093	17 919	31 174	36.3	13.2	23.0
1956	1 363	47 486	15 386	32 100	34.8	11.3	23.6
1957	1 370	46 107	17 341	28 766	33.7	12.7	21.0
1958	1 375	44 619	13 917	30 702	32.5	10.1	22.3
1959	1 382	44 638	14 998	29 640	32.3	10.9	21.4
1960	1 392	44 059	14 007	30 052	31.7	10.1	21.6	4.11
1961	1 405	42 182	13 141	29 041	30.0	9.4	20.7	3.86
1962	1 423	40 615	16 155	24 460	28.5	11.4	17.2	3.68
1963	1 442	41 284	13 229	28 055	28.6	9.2	19.5	3.71
1964	1 462	42 897	13 286	29 611	29.3	9.1	20.3	3.81
1965	1 481	42 433	12 758	29 675	28.7	8.6	20.0	3.73
1966	1 499	41 434	12 307	29 127	27.6	8.2	19.4	3.60
1967	1 516	40 763	12 523	28 240	26.9	8.3	18.6	3.49
1968	1 532	40 123	12 461	27 662	26.2	8.1	18.1	3.38
1969	1 550	40 342	13 112	27 230	26.0	8.5	17.6	3.33
1970	1 568	37 862	12 430	25 432	24.1	7.9	16.2	3.09
1971	1 587	37 904	12 447	25 457	23.9	7.8	16.0	3.02
1972	1 608	38 187	13 096	25 091	23.7	8.1	15.6	2.96
1973	1 629	37 478	12 217	25 261	23.0	7.5	15.5	2.82
1974	1 652	38 382	12 143	26 239	23.2	7.4	15.9	2.81
1975	1 676	39 579	12 629	26 950	23.6	7.5	16.1	2.87
1976	1 701	39 809	12 377	27 432	23.4	7.3	16.1	2.80
1977	1 728	38 932	12 899	26 033	22.5	7.5	15.1	2.64
1978	1 754	38 790	12 577	26 213	22.1	7.2	14.9	2.58
1979	1 777	39 407	12 653	26 754	22.2	7.1	15.1	2.48
1980	1 795	39 784	13 534	26 250	22.2	7.5	14.6	2.59
1981	1 806	39 488	13 378	26 110	21.9	7.4	14.5	2.67
1982	1 812	39 789	13 502	26 287	22.0	7.5	14.5	2.64
1983	1 816	39 210	14 391	24 819	21.6	7.9	13.7	2.51
1984	1 820	38 861	14 066	24 795	21.4	7.7	13.6	2.47
1985	1 828	38 722	14 408	24 314	21.2	7.9	13.3	2.51
1986	1 841	38 234	14 438	23 796	20.8	7.8	12.9	2.49
1987	1 857	38 572	14 644	23 928	20.8	7.9	12.9	2.45
1988	1 875	37 879	14 565	23 314	20.2	7.8	12.4	2.43
1989	1 893	35 927	14 592	21 335	19.0	7.7	11.3	2.30
1990	1 909	35 401	14 643	20 758	18.5	7.7	10.9	2.20
1991	1 923	34 830	14 789	20 041	18.1	7.7	10.4	2.17
1992	1 934	33 238	16 022	17 216	17.2	8.3	8.9	2.11
1993	1 944	32 374	15 591	16 783	16.7	8.0	8.6	2.15
1994	1 954	33 487	15 771	17 716	17.1	8.1	9.1	2.22
1995	1 963	29 886	16 338	13 548	16.4	8.3	8.1	2.13
1996	1 974	28 946	16 063	12 883	15.9	8.1	7.8	2.06
1997	1 984	26 830	16 596	10 234	14.9	8.4	6.5	1.87
1998	1 994	26 639	16 870	9769	14.7	8.5	6.2	1.86
1999	2 004	24 964	16 789	8 175	13.6	8.4	5.2	1.77
2000	2 012	26 168	17 253	8 915	14.6	8.6	6.0	1.81
2001	2 018	24 183	16 919	7 264	13.4	8.4	5.0	1.71
2002	2 024	24 154	17 962	6 192	13.7	8.9	4.8	1.71
2003	2 028	23 596	18 006	5 590	13.3	8.9	4.4	1.68
2004	2 032	23 361	17 944	5 417	11.5	8.8	2.7	1.66
2005	2 037	22 482	18 406	4 076	11.0	9.0	2.0	1.56
2006	2 040	22 585	18 630	3 955	11.1	9.1	1.9	1.57
2007	2 044	22 688	19 594	3 094	11.1	9.6	1.5	1.58
2008	2 047	22 945	18 982	3 963	11.2	9.3	1.9	1.59
2009	2 051	23 684	19 060	4 624	11.5	9.3	2.3	1.61
2010	2 057	24 296	19 148	5 148	11.9	9.3	2.6	1.64
2011	2 061	22 770	19 465	3 305	11.1	9.5	1,6	1.58
2012	2 062	23 568	20 134	3 434	11.4	9.8	1.7	1.61
2013^[11]	2 064	23 138	19 208	3 930	11.2	9.3	1.9	1.60
2014^[12]	2 068	23 674	19 682	3 992	11.4	9.5	1.9	1.62
2015	2 071	23 075	20 408	2 667	11.1	9.8	1.3	1.61
2016 JS	2 073	17 394	14 988	2 406				1,61

Current natural increase^[13]

Births from January-September 2015 = 17,348
Births from January-September 2016 = 17,394

Deaths from January-September 2015 = 15,315
Deaths from January-September 2016 = 14,988

Natural increase from January-September 2015 = 2,033
Natural increase from January-September 2016 = 2,406

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 Albanians and Roma had rates 3 times as high. This resulted in a significant demographic change as the Albanian population grew from 17% after the Second World War to 25% in the 1990s. This caused an increase in political tension and ultimately, after a brief conflict, forced the country to undertake reforms that decentralized the government. In 1994, Macedonian Slavs had a TFR of 2.07, while the TFR of others were - Albanian (4.10), 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).^[14]

However, it is unlikely that this high Muslim TFR has continued since then in Macedonia, as Balkan Muslim fertility elsewhere (Albania, Bosnia, and Kosovo) has dropped sharply toward the European average. A more recent survey^[15] pegs Muslim fertility in Macedonia at 1.7, versus 1.3 for non-Muslims.

In 2013, 23,138 children were born in Macedonia. The ethnic affiliation of these newborns was: 11,550 (49.92%) Macedonian; 8,137 (35.17%) Albanian; 1,104 (4.77%) Turkish; 1,554 (6.72%) Roma; 17 (0.07%) Vlach; 120 (0.52%) Serbian; 248 (1.07%) Bosniak; 408 (1.76%) other ethnic affiliation and unknown.^[16]

Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1961.
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1971.
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1981.
Ethnic map of the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 1981 census
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1991.
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1991.
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 1994.
Ethnic structure of Macedonia by settlements 2002.
Ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2002 census
Ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2002 census
Ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2012 census, on municipal level.

**Population of Macedonia according to ethnic group 1948-2002^[17]**
Ethnic group	census 1948		census 1953		census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 1994¹		census 2002
Ethnic group	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Macedonians	789,648	68.5	860,699	66.0	1,000,854	71.2	1,142,375	69.3	1,281,195	67.0	1,328,187	65.3	1,295,964	66.6	1,297,981	64.2
Albanians	197,389	17.1	162,524	12.5	183,108	13.0	279,871	17.0	377,726	19.8	441,987	21.7	441,104	22.7	509,083	25.2
Turks	95,940	8.3	203,938	15.6	131,481	9.4	108,552	6.6	86,691	4.5	77,080	3.8	78,019	4.0	77,959	3.9
Romani	19,500	1.7	20,462	1.6	20,606	1.5	24,505	1.5	43,223	2.3	52,103	2.6	43,707	2.2	53,879	2.7
Serbs	29,721	2.6	35,112	2.7	42,728	3.0	46,465	2.8	44,613	2.3	42,775	2.1	40,228	2.1	35,939	1.8
Bosniaks	1,560	0.1	1,591	0.1	3,002	0.2	1,248	0.1	39,555	2.1	31,356	1.5	6,829	0.3	17,018	0.8
Muslims	1,560	0.1	1,591	0.1	3,002	0.2	1,248	0.1	39,555	2.1	31,356	1.5	15,418	0.8	2,553	0.1
Aromanians	9,511	0.8	8,668	0.7	8,046	0.6	7,190	0.4	6,392	0.3	7,764	0.4	8,601	0.4	9,695	0.5
Croats	2,090	0.2	2,770	0.2	3,801	0.3	3,882	0.2	3,349	0.2	2,878	0.1	2,248	0.1	2.686	0.1
Montenegrins	2,348	0.2	2,526	0.2	3,414	0.2	3,246	0.2	3,940	0.2	3,225	0.1	2,318	0.1	2,003	0.1
Bulgarians	889	0.1	920	0.1	3,087	0.2	3,334	0.2	1,984	0.1	1,370	0.1	1,682	0.1	1.417	0.1
Yugoslavs					1,260	0.1	3,652	0.2	14,240	0.7
other / unspecified	4,390	0.4	5,304	0.4	4,616	0.3	22,988	1.4	6,228	0.3	45,239	2.2	9,814	0.5	14,887²	0.7
Total	1,152,986		1,304,514		1,406,003		1,647,308		1,909,136		2,033,964		1,945,932		2,022,547
¹ Since 1994 residents who were permanently living abroad were no longer included ² Ashkali: 3,713 or 0.184%, Greeks: 422 or 0.021%, Russians: 368 or 0.018%, Slovenes: 365 or 0.018%, Poles: 162 or 0.008%, Ukrainians: 136 or 0.007%, Germans: 88 or 0.004%, Czechs: 60 or 0.005%, Slovaks: 60 or 0.005%, Jews: 53 or 0.003%, Italians: 46 or 0.002%, Austrians: 35 or 0.002%, Rusyns: 24 or 0.001%, Regionally affiliated: 829 or 0.041%, Non-declared: 404 or 0.02%, Others: 5332 or 0.264%

Languages

Main article: Languages of the Republic of Macedonia

Macedonian: 1 344 815 - 66.5%
Albanian: 507 989 - 25.1%
Turkish: 71 757 - 3.5%
Romani: 38 528 - 1.9%
Serbian: 24 773 - 1.2%
Bosnian: 8560 - 0.4%
Aromanian: 6 884 - 0.3%
other: 19 241 - 1.0%

Linguistic structureв of Macedonia by settlements 2002.

Religions

Main article: Religion in the Republic of Macedonia

Orthodox Christianity (Macedonian Orthodox Church): 1,211,740 or 58.9%^[18] (2010)
Islam: 808,512 or 39.3%^[19]^[20] (2010)
Catholicism (Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church): 8,229 or 0.4%^[21] (2010)
other: 28,801 or 1.4% (2010)^[22]^[23]

Religious structure of Macedonia by settlements 2002.

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

1.58 children born/woman (2011 est.)

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
adjective: Macedonian

References

Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Macedonia 2004 (CD version)

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