Population in North Macedonia compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

North Macedonia and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	North Macedonia	Spain	North Macedonia	Spain
1960	1,435,059	30,455,000	-	-
1961	1,455,171	30,739,250	1.4%	0.93%
1962	1,471,745	31,023,366	1.14%	0.92%
1963	1,488,737	31,296,651	1.15%	0.88%
1964	1,510,900	31,609,195	1.49%	1%
1965	1,533,466	31,954,292	1.49%	1.09%
1966	1,557,349	32,283,194	1.56%	1.03%
1967	1,582,492	32,682,947	1.61%	1.24%
1968	1,608,930	33,113,134	1.67%	1.32%
1969	1,636,345	33,441,054	1.7%	0.99%
1970	1,664,208	33,814,531	1.7%	1.12%
1971	1,691,216	34,224,490	1.62%	1.21%
1972	1,717,395	34,604,469	1.55%	1.11%
1973	1,743,816	34,988,947	1.54%	1.11%
1974	1,770,545	35,373,335	1.53%	1.1%
1975	1,797,972	35,757,900	1.55%	1.09%
1976	1,825,830	36,137,812	1.55%	1.06%
1977	1,853,138	36,511,638	1.5%	1.03%
1978	1,879,847	36,864,898	1.44%	0.97%
1979	1,906,523	37,191,330	1.42%	0.89%
1980	1,933,038	37,491,165	1.39%	0.81%
1981	1,959,065	37,758,631	1.35%	0.71%
1982	1,978,956	37,986,012	1.02%	0.6%
1983	1,991,901	38,171,525	0.65%	0.49%
1984	2,003,399	38,330,364	0.58%	0.42%
1985	2,014,331	38,469,512	0.55%	0.36%
1986	2,024,732	38,584,624	0.52%	0.3%
1987	2,035,157	38,684,815	0.51%	0.26%
1988	2,045,737	38,766,939	0.52%	0.21%
1989	2,055,649	38,827,764	0.48%	0.16%
1990	2,063,689	38,867,322	0.39%	0.1%
1991	2,055,994	38,966,376	-0.37%	0.25%
1992	2,032,523	39,157,685	-1.14%	0.49%
1993	2,006,854	39,361,262	-1.26%	0.52%
1994	1,992,666	39,549,108	-0.71%	0.48%
1995	1,998,534	39,724,050	0.29%	0.44%
1996	2,012,553	39,889,852	0.7%	0.42%
1997	1,996,869	40,057,389	-0.78%	0.42%
1998	2,007,523	40,223,509	0.53%	0.41%
1999	2,017,142	40,386,875	0.48%	0.41%
2000	2,026,350	40,567,864	0.46%	0.45%
2001	2,034,882	40,850,412	0.42%	0.7%
2002	2,020,157	41,431,558	-0.72%	1.42%
2003	2,022,725	42,187,645	0.13%	1.82%
2004	2,016,186	42,921,895	-0.32%	1.74%
2005	2,005,330	43,653,155	-0.54%	1.7%
2006	1,994,287	44,397,319	-0.55%	1.7%
2007	1,982,933	45,226,803	-0.57%	1.87%
2008	1,971,493	45,954,106	-0.58%	1.61%
2009	1,958,782	46,362,946	-0.64%	0.89%
2010	1,946,298	46,576,897	-0.64%	0.46%
2011	1,937,398	46,742,697	-0.46%	0.36%
2012	1,929,821	46,773,055	-0.39%	0.06%
2013	1,922,716	46,604,197	-0.37%	-0.36%
2014	1,917,557	46,460,733	-0.27%	-0.31%
2015	1,912,430	46,422,303	-0.27%	-0.08%
2016	1,906,313	46,458,139	-0.32%	0.08%
2017	1,898,657	46,571,232	-0.4%	0.24%
2018	1,889,051	46,782,011	-0.51%	0.45%
2019	1,876,262	47,118,501	-0.68%	0.72%
2020	1,856,124	47,359,424	-1.07%	0.51%
2021	1,837,114	47,443,821	-1.02%	0.18%
2022	1,831,712	47,786,102	-0.29%	0.72%
2023	1,827,816	48,352,528	-0.21%	1.19%
2024	1,824,359	48,848,840	-0.19%	1.03%
2025	1,815,133	48,827,866	-0.51%	-0.04%
2026	1,805,395	48,787,930	-0.54%	-0.08%
2027	1,795,422	48,738,456	-0.55%	-0.1%
2028	1,785,331	48,683,694	-0.56%	-0.11%
2029	1,774,860	48,619,674	-0.59%	-0.13%
2030	1,763,791	48,542,955	-0.62%	-0.16%
2031	1,752,330	48,454,221	-0.65%	-0.18%
2032	1,740,795	48,362,482	-0.66%	-0.19%
2033	1,729,225	48,271,264	-0.66%	-0.19%
2034	1,717,480	48,177,551	-0.68%	-0.19%
2035	1,705,456	48,077,695	-0.7%	-0.21%
2036	1,693,196	47,970,911	-0.72%	-0.22%
2037	1,680,741	47,860,116	-0.74%	-0.23%
2038	1,668,308	47,747,343	-0.74%	-0.24%
2039	1,655,824	47,629,540	-0.75%	-0.25%
2040	1,643,124	47,504,152	-0.77%	-0.26%
2041	1,630,336	47,373,061	-0.78%	-0.28%
2042	1,617,428	47,234,914	-0.79%	-0.29%
2043	1,604,359	47,092,497	-0.81%	-0.3%
2044	1,591,423	46,942,712	-0.81%	-0.32%
2045	1,578,519	46,778,501	-0.81%	-0.35%
2046	1,565,479	46,604,170	-0.83%	-0.37%
2047	1,552,566	46,421,312	-0.82%	-0.39%
2048	1,539,797	46,230,109	-0.82%	-0.41%
2049	1,526,883	46,024,720	-0.84%	-0.44%
2050	1,513,804	45,808,469	-0.86%	-0.47%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of North Macedonia decreased by 87,974 people (a 4.41% decline), while Spain gained 2,060,820 people (a 4.64% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, North Macedonia lost -100,918 (a 5.29% decline), while Spain's population increased by 2,329,791 (a 5.01% growth).

North Macedonia was ranked 142nd most populous country in 2006 and is 150th in 2026. Spain was ranked 28th in 2006 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) North Macedonia's population will shrink by 16.2% to 1,513,804 people with a rank change from 150th to 152nd. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.11% to 45,808,469 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.