Demographics & population — North Macedonia
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for North Macedonia: 2,125,971
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Population overview
- Population
2,125,971
- Population Growth Rate
0.22%
- Urban Population
- Population in Major Urban Areas
SKOPJE (capital) 499,000
Age & family
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
-0.48
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Macedonian 58.4%, Albanian 24.3%, Turkish 3.9%, Romani 2.5%, Serb 1.3%, other 2.3%, persons for whom data were taken from administrative sources and no ethnic affiliation data was available 7.2%
- Language Note
The official language is Macedonian, which is written in a Cyrillic script. Albanian, Turkish, and Serbian are spoken widely. Sixty-seven per cent of the population in Macedonia are Macedonian, 22.9% are Albanian and there are between 2-3% Gypsy and Serb minorities.
- Nationality Noun
Macedonian(s)
Education
- Literacy - total population
96.1%
- Literacy - male
98.2%
- Literacy - female
94.1%
- Literacy Definition
NA
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
10
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
2.62
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
4.6
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
6.6%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
21.1%
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- Underweight - percent of children under five years
1.8%