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Some statistics are from the 2002 census data, while the rest are estimates from the CIA World Factbook publication.

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

Age structure

• 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 groups (based on 2002 census)

• 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

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

Languages

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

Literacy

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

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 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). [1]

• Republic of Macedonia

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

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