🇲🇰North Macedonia

Skopje

Europe

Upper middle income

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Population

1.8M

0.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.40

births/woman

Life Expectancy

76.6y

GDP / capita

$10.5K

Pop. Growth

-0.19%

Net Migration

-5.6K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in North Macedonia by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇱Albania68.4K(45.8%)

−3%

🇹🇷Turkiye20.1K(13.4%)

+2%

🇺🇦

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male886.1KTotal 1.8M934.8KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the North Macedonia diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in North Macedonia who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇩🇪Germany147.2K(27.5%)

+150%

🇨🇭Switzerland85.1K(15.9%)

+68%

🇮🇹Italy67.5K(12.6%)

−0%

🇦🇺Australia48.7K(9.1%)

−5%

🇹🇷Turkiye35.5K(6.6%)

−53%

🇷🇸Serbia34.9K(6.5%)

−25%

🇦🇹Austria31.8K(6.0%)

+53%

🇸🇮Slovenia21.7K(4.1%)

+51%

🇸🇪Sweden11.8K(2.2%)

+155%

🇨🇦Canada10.2K(1.9%)

+7%

🇭🇷Croatia9K(1.7%)

−10%

🇧🇬Bulgaria6.3K(1.2%)

+188%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024