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	48,347,910	-0.21%	1.18%
2024	1,792,179	48,807,137	-1.95%	0.95%
2025	1,783,115	48,786,181	-0.51%	-0.04%
2026	1,773,550	48,746,279	-0.54%	-0.08%
2027	1,763,753	48,696,847	-0.55%	-0.1%
2028	1,753,839	48,642,132	-0.56%	-0.11%
2029	1,743,553	48,578,166	-0.59%	-0.13%
2030	1,732,679	48,501,513	-0.62%	-0.16%
2031	1,721,421	48,412,854	-0.65%	-0.18%
2032	1,710,089	48,321,195	-0.66%	-0.19%
2033	1,698,723	48,230,054	-0.66%	-0.19%
2034	1,687,185	48,136,421	-0.68%	-0.19%
2035	1,675,373	48,036,650	-0.7%	-0.21%
2036	1,663,329	47,929,957	-0.72%	-0.22%
2037	1,651,095	47,819,257	-0.74%	-0.23%
2038	1,638,881	47,706,580	-0.74%	-0.24%
2039	1,626,617	47,588,878	-0.75%	-0.25%
2040	1,614,140	47,463,597	-0.77%	-0.26%
2041	1,601,579	47,332,618	-0.78%	-0.28%
2042	1,588,898	47,194,588	-0.79%	-0.29%
2043	1,576,060	47,052,293	-0.81%	-0.3%
2044	1,563,352	46,902,636	-0.81%	-0.32%
2045	1,550,675	46,738,565	-0.81%	-0.35%
2046	1,537,866	46,564,383	-0.83%	-0.37%
2047	1,525,180	46,381,681	-0.82%	-0.39%
2048	1,512,637	46,190,642	-0.82%	-0.41%
2049	1,499,950	45,985,428	-0.84%	-0.44%
2050	1,487,102	45,769,362	-0.86%	-0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of North Macedonia decreased by 92,900 people (a 4.63% decline), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, North Macedonia lost -129,315 (a 6.76% decline), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

North Macedonia was ranked 141st most populous country in 2005 and is 150th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) North Macedonia's population will shrink by 16.6% to 1,487,102 people with a rank change from 150th to 155th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.