Population

Demographics of the Republic of Macedonia , Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

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• Total: 2,022,547 (2002 census); 2,071,210 (July 2004 est.)

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• 0-14 years: 21.5% (male 231,078; female 213,906)
• 15-64 years: 67.8% (male 707,298; female 696,830)
• 65 years and over: 10.7% (male 97,437; female 124,661) (2004 est.)

Population growth rate

• 0.39% (2004 est.)
• Birth rate: 13.14 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
• Death rate: 7.83 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)

Net migration rate

• -1.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (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

• 1.74 children born/woman (2004 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

Ethnic map of the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 1981 census

Ethnic map of the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2002 census

Ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia, according to the 2002 census

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• Macedonians: 1297981 or 64.18%. (This also includes Macedonian Muslims.)
• Albanians: 509083 or 25.17%
• Turks: 77959 or 3.85%
• Roma: 53879 or 2.66%
• Serbs: 35939 or 1.78%
• Bosniaks and Muslims by nationality: 19571 or 0,968%
  • Bosniaks 17018 or 0.841%
  • Muslims by nationality: 2553 or 0,126%
• Aromanians: 9695 or 0.479%
• Egyptians: 3713 or 0,184%
• Montenegrins: 2686 or 0,133%
• Hungarians: 2003 or 0,1%
• Bulgarians: 1417 or 0,073%
• 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%
• Croats: 129 or 0,006%
• 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%
• Regionaly affiliated: 829 or 0,041%
• Non-declared: 404 or 0,02%
• Others: 5332 or 0,264%

Religions The Macedonian Muslims (Macedonian:Македонци Муслимани), also known as Muslim Macedonians or Torbesh (the later name is somewhat pejorative and means the bag carriers), are a minority religious group within the community of ethnic Macedonians who are Muslims. ... The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ... Serbs (Serbian: Срби or Srbi) are a South Slavic people who live mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia. ... The Bosniaks (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, IPA: ) are a South Slav people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro, with a smaller autochthonous population also present in Kosovo. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... The Bosniaks (Bosnian: Bošnjaci, IPA: ) are a South Slav people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro, with a smaller autochthonous population also present in Kosovo. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Aromanians (also called: Arumanians or Macedo-Romanians; in Aromanian they call themselves Arumâni, Armâni, Ramani, Rumâni or Aromâni) are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Romania (Dobrogea). ... Montenegrins (Serbian and Montenegrin: Црногорци / Crnogorci) are a South Slavic people who are primarily associated with the Republic of Montenegro. ... Croats (Croatian: Hrvati) are a South Slavic people mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. ... Rusyns, also called Ruthenians, Ruthenes, Rusins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt a Ukrainian national identity and become Ukrainians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...

• Eastern Orthodox (Macedonian Orthodox ): 70%
• Muslim: 29%
• other: 1%

Languages Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ... The Macedonian Orthodox Church is a body of Eastern Orthodox Christians faithful residing in the Republic of Macedonia or having migrated from it. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...

• Macedonian: 68%
• Albanian: 25%
• Turkish: 3%
• Serbo-Croatian: 2%
• other: 2%

Literacy Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian (also Croatian or Serbian, Serbian or Croatian) (srpskohrvatski or cрпскохрватски or hrvatskosrpski or hrvatski ili srpski or srpski ili hrvatski), earlier also Serbo-Croat, was an official language of Yugoslavia (along with Slovenian, Macedonian). ...

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• total population: NA%
• male: NA%
• female: NA%

Trends

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 are very high among rural Muslims: Turks and Torbesh 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 8% after WWII to 25% in the 1990s. This have caused political tension for a long time and ultimately after a brief conflict forced the country to undertake reforms that decentralized the government. The Torbesh are a Muslim Slav Macedonian peoples. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

See also

• Republic of Macedonia

Anthem: (Macedonian for Today over Macedonia) Capital (and largest city) Skopje Macedonian, Albanian1 Government Parliamentary republic  - President Branko Crvenkovski  - Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Independence from Yugoslavia   - Declared September 8, 1991  Area  - Total 25,333 km² (148th) 9,779 sq mi   - Water (%) 1. ...

External links

• Results of the 2002 census
• CIA's World Factbook entry on the Republic of Macedonia

References

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