North Macedonia

EuropeCapital city: SkopjeCapital metro: SkopjePresident: Gordana Siljanovska-DavkovaPrime Minister: Hristijan Mickoski
2026 population
1.8M
Rank #155 globally
Area
26k km² (10k sq mi)
Metros tracked
17
76% of population in metros
Composite score
5.0
Rank #131 globally

population: Official estimate (31 Dec 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 17 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography17 metros

North Macedonia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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17 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 17 tracked metros
17 metros
🗂️ Regions

8 entries listed under North Macedonia. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

8 total
📋 At a glance
Official languages
Albanian, Macedonian
Government
Parliamentary republic
Legislature
Assembly of North Macedonia
Demonym
Macedonian
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+389
Internet TLD
.mk
ISO 3166
MK
Established
1991
Highest point
Korab (2,764 m (9,068 ft))
National anthem
Denes nad Makedonija

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#67 / 191
0.815
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#135 / 193
$19.1B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#81 / 193
$10.5k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#74 / 190
$28.0k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#83 / 192
$9.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#71 / 194
76.6 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
40.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#99 / 194
63%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#114 / 193
72/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#70 / 193
8.3%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#113 / 175
0.37
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#64 / 166
33.5
World Bank · 2019
Internet users
#39 / 193
93%
World Bank · 2025
Inflation
#127 / 185
4.1%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#113 / 192
3.6 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#72 / 186
47%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations2 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History14 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Hristijan Mickoski✦ Current

2024Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 10d

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova✦ Current

2024Present

President

Tenure: 2y 1m 21d

Talat Xhaferi

20242024

President

Tenure: 3m 14d

Talat Xhaferi

20242024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4m 26d

Dimitar Kovačevski

20222024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 12d

Stevo Pendarovski

20192024

President

Tenure: 4y 8m 16d

Gjorge Ivanov

20092019

President

Tenure: 10y 0d

Branko Crvenkovski

20042009

President

Tenure: 5y 0d

Ljupčo Jordanovski

20042004

President

Tenure: 2m 16d

Boris Trajkovski

19992004

President

Tenure: 4y 2m 11d

Savo Klimovski

19991999

President

Tenure: 26d

Kiro Gligorov

19951999

President

Tenure: 4y 2d
Show all 14 leaders

Stojan Andov

19951995

President

Tenure: 1m 13d

Kiro Gligorov

19911995

President

Tenure: 4y 16d
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#125 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
North Macedonia · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
1.8m
#152 in the world
Since 1800
4.67×
from 392k
Past its peak
−12.3%
peaked at 2.1m in 2005
Share of world
0.02%
0.04% in 1800
522k1.0m1.6m2.1m18001850190019502000
North Macedonia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. North Macedonia is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for North Macedonia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
2005
2.1m; already passed
2050
1.5m
95% band 1.1m to 2.1m
2100
863k
95% band 263k to 2.7m
2100 against 2025
0.48×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 2020
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
727k1.5m2.2m2.9m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
47k born · 24k died · 0 net migration
TFR 5.14 · life expectancy 50.6 · median age 20.5
1960
44k born · 16k died · -10k net migration
TFR 3.83 · life expectancy 60.5 · median age 20.8
1970
42k born · 14k died · +60 net migration
TFR 3.01 · life expectancy 65.0 · median age 21.6
1980
40k born · 14k died · -189 net migration
TFR 2.36 · life expectancy 69.1 · median age 24.9
1990
38k born · 15k died · -16k net migration
TFR 2.27 · life expectancy 71.3 · median age 27.9
2000
30k born · 18k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.86 · life expectancy 72.6 · median age 30.9
2010
26k born · 19k died · -17k net migration
TFR 1.71 · life expectancy 75.0 · median age 34.5
2020
20k born · 25k died · -23k net migration
TFR 1.63 · life expectancy 74.5 · median age 39.3
Show all 16 decades
2030
15k born · 21k died · -5k net migration
TFR 1.48 · life expectancy 78.4 · median age 42.8
2040
14k born · 23k died · -4k net migration
TFR 1.50 · life expectancy 79.8 · median age 45.9
2050
12k born · 23k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.51 · life expectancy 81.3 · median age 47.8
2060
10k born · 22k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.53 · life expectancy 82.6 · median age 49.3
2070
9k born · 20k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.54 · life expectancy 83.9 · median age 51.9
2080
8k born · 19k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 85.2 · median age 53.2
2090
6k born · 17k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 86.4 · median age 53.5
2100
6k born · 15k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 87.5 · median age 54.6

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

North Macedonia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.