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.

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1 Total population
2 Vital statistics^[1]^[2]
3 Ethnic groups
4 Languages
5 Religions
6 CIA World Factbook demographic statistics
7 See also
8 External links
9 References

Total population

2,022,547 (2002 census)
2,038,514 (2006 est.[1] )

Vital statistics^[1]^[2]

	Average population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)
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
1961	1 405	42 182	13 141	29 041	30.0	9.4	20.7
1962	1 423	40 615	16 155	24 460	28.5	11.4	17.2
1963	1 442	41 284	13 229	28 055	28.6	9.2	19.5
1964	1 462	42 897	13 286	29 611	29.3	9.1	20.3
1965	1 481	42 433	12 758	29 675	28.7	8.6	20.0
1966	1 499	41 434	12 307	29 127	27.6	8.2	19.4
1967	1 516	40 763	12 523	28 240	26.9	8.3	18.6
1968	1 532	40 123	12 461	27 662	26.2	8.1	18.1
1969	1 550	40 342	13 112	27 230	26.0	8.5	17.6
1970	1 568	37 862	12 430	25 432	24.1	7.9	16.2
1971	1 587	37 904	12 447	25 457	23.9	7.8	16.0
1972	1 608	38 187	13 096	25 091	23.7	8.1	15.6
1973	1 629	37 478	12 217	25 261	23.0	7.5	15.5
1974	1 652	38 382	12 143	26 239	23.2	7.4	15.9
1975	1 676	39 579	12 629	26 950	23.6	7.5	16.1
1976	1 701	39 809	12 377	27 432	23.4	7.3	16.1
1977	1 728	38 932	12 899	26 033	22.5	7.5	15.1
1978	1 754	38 790	12 577	26 213	22.1	7.2	14.9
1979	1 777	39 407	12 653	26 754	22.2	7.1	15.1
1980	1 795	39 784	13 534	26 250	22.2	7.5	14.6
1981	1 806	39 488	13 378	26 110	21.9	7.4	14.5
1982	1 812	39 789	13 502	26 287	22.0	7.5	14.5
1983	1 816	39 210	14 391	24 819	21.6	7.9	13.7
1984	1 820	38 861	14 066	24 795	21.4	7.7	13.6
1985	1 828	38 722	14 408	24 314	21.2	7.9	13.3
1986	1 841	38 234	14 438	23 796	20.8	7.8	12.9
1987	1 857	38 572	14 644	23 928	20.8	7.9	12.9
1988	1 875	37 879	14 565	23 314	20.2	7.8	12.4
1989	1 893	35 927	14 592	21 335	19.0	7.7	11.3
1990	1 909	35 401	14 643	20 758	18.5	7.7	10.9
1991	1 923	34 830	14 789	20 041	18.1	7.7	10.4
1992	1 934	33 238	16 022	17 216	17.2	8.3	8.9
1993	1 944	32 374	15 591	16 783	16.7	8.0	8.6
1994	1 954	33 487	15 771	17 716	17.1	8.1	9.1
1995	1 963	32 154	16 338	15 816	16.4	8.3	8.1
1996	1 974	31 403	16 063	15 340	15.9	8.1	7.8
1997	1 984	29 478	16 596	12 882	14.9	8.4	6.5
1998	1 994	29 244	16 870	12 374	14.7	8.5	6.2
1999	2 004	27 309	16 789	10 520	13.6	8.4	5.2
2000	2 012	29 308	17 253	12 055	14.6	8.6	6.0
2001	2 018	27 010	16 919	10 091	13.4	8.4	5.0
2002	2 024	27 761	17 962	9 799	13.7	8.9	4.8
2003	2 028	27 011	18 006	9 005	13.3	8.9	4.4
2004	2 032	23 361	17 944	5 417	11.5	8.8	2.7
2005	2 037	22 482	18 406	4 076	11.0	9.0	2.0
2006	2 040	22 585	18 630	3 955	11.1	9.1	1.9
2007	2 044	22 688	19 594	3 094	11.1	9.6	1.5
2008	2 047	22 945	18 982	3 963	11.2	9.3	1.9
2009	2 051	23 684	19 060	4 624	11.5	9.3	2.3
2010 (p)	2 055	24 424	19 148	5 276	11.9	9.3	2.6

p=preliminary

Ethnic groups

The process of industrialization and urbanization after the WWII that caused the population growth to decrease involved the Macedonians to a greater extent than the Muslims. Rates of increase were very high among rural Muslims: Turks and Torbesh (Macedonian Muslims) are 2.5 times those of the Macedonian majority, while Albanians and Roma have 3 times as high. This has resulted in a significant demographic change as the Albanian population part has swelled from 17% after WWII to 25% in the 1990s. This has 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), Vlax(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) [2].

**Population of Macedonia according to ethnic group 1948-2002^[3]**
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	197,3891	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
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
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
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
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
Yugoslavs					1,260	0.1	3,652	0.2	14,240	0.7
Vlachs	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
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
Others or 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

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

Religions

Eastern Orthodox (Macedonian Orthodox ): 1,310,184 or 64.78%
Muslim: 674,015 or 33.33%
Catholics: 7,008 or 0.34%
other: 31,340 or 1.55%

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

External links

References

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

^ Institut national d'études démographique (INED)
^ State Statistical Office Republic of Macedonia
^ http://www.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/databasetree.asp Censuses of Population 1948-2002 State Statistical Office

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