Country Sheet : North-macedonia

Population : 2,133,410 (2023 est.)

Crude natural change rate : -2.4‰ (2022)

Crude net migration rate: -0.4 (2023 est.)

Life expectancy: men 75 years, women 79,3 years (2023 est.)

Religions: Macedonian Orthodox 46.1%, Muslim 32.2%, other Christian 13.8%, other and non-believers 0.5%, unspecified 0.2% (2021)

Source : The CIA World Factbook, Eurostat

Currency: Denar (MKD) (exchange rate for November 2023: 1€ = 61,65 MKD)

GDP: € 13,655.4 million (est. 2023)

GDP per capita (PPS): € 5,124 (December 2022)

GDP growth : 1.1% (June 2023)

Inflation: 4.6% (May 2024)

Public debt: 51% of GDP (December 2022)

Unemployment: 13.2% (June 2023)

Public deficit: -4.1% of GDP (December 2022)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 6.4% of GDP (2022)

Source : Eurostat, Trading Economics, World Banks

Current parliamentary composition (elections on May 8th 2024)

• 58 seats coalition VMRO- DPMNE (Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity), DPSM (Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia), SPM (Socialist Party of Macedonia)
• 18 seats coalition BDI/DUI (Democratic Union for Integration), PDSh/DPA (Democratic Party of Albanians), AA (Alliance for Albanians)
• 18 seats coalition SDSM (Social Democratic Union of Macedonia), LDP (Liberal-Democrat Party), NSDP (New Social Democratic Party)
• 14 seats coalition LB/DB (Besa Movement), Alternative, AA (Alliance for Albanians)
• 6 seats ZNAM (For Our Macedonia)
• 6 seats Levica

• On 9th April 2001, the Foreign Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the European Union in Luxembourg, which entered into force in April 2004. On 16th December 2005, the FYROM was granted the candidate status to the European Union by the European Council. The liberalisation of visas has entered into force on 19th December 2009. On 29th March 2012, the European Commission launched a High Level Accession Dialogue with Skopje.
• On 26th June 2018 the General Affairs Council adopted conclusions on the EU-Western Balkans stabilisation and association process, covering the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Council agreed to respond positively to the progress made by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and set out the path towards opening accession negotiations with this country in autumn of 2019. On 25th March 2020, the member states of the EU gave their agreement to start negotiations to integrate Macedonia into the Union. On 19th July 2022, the EU authorized the opening of accession negotiations with the country.

• in government: 3/20
• in Parliament: 46/120

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