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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	North Macedonia	Syria	North Macedonia	Syria
1960	1,435,059	4,673,500	-	-
1961	1,455,171	4,815,466	1.4%	3.04%
1962	1,471,745	4,959,340	1.14%	2.99%
1963	1,488,737	5,110,467	1.15%	3.05%
1964	1,510,900	5,269,087	1.49%	3.1%
1965	1,533,466	5,435,267	1.49%	3.15%
1966	1,557,349	5,609,047	1.56%	3.2%
1967	1,582,492	5,790,198	1.61%	3.23%
1968	1,608,930	5,978,742	1.67%	3.26%
1969	1,636,345	6,175,166	1.7%	3.29%
1970	1,664,208	6,380,609	1.7%	3.33%
1971	1,691,216	6,598,094	1.62%	3.41%
1972	1,717,395	6,826,024	1.55%	3.45%
1973	1,743,816	7,060,321	1.54%	3.43%
1974	1,770,545	7,302,160	1.53%	3.43%
1975	1,797,972	7,554,364	1.55%	3.45%
1976	1,825,830	7,817,320	1.55%	3.48%
1977	1,853,138	8,090,501	1.5%	3.49%
1978	1,879,847	8,372,759	1.44%	3.49%
1979	1,906,523	8,661,909	1.42%	3.45%
1980	1,933,038	8,957,663	1.39%	3.41%
1981	1,959,065	9,260,189	1.35%	3.38%
1982	1,978,956	9,572,511	1.02%	3.37%
1983	1,991,901	9,904,809	0.65%	3.47%
1984	2,003,399	10,258,398	0.58%	3.57%
1985	2,014,331	10,625,672	0.55%	3.58%
1986	2,024,732	11,002,844	0.52%	3.55%
1987	2,035,157	11,388,923	0.51%	3.51%
1988	2,045,737	11,782,264	0.52%	3.45%
1989	2,055,649	12,179,060	0.48%	3.37%
1990	2,063,689	12,579,208	0.39%	3.29%
1991	2,055,994	12,980,821	-0.37%	3.19%
1992	2,032,523	13,385,571	-1.14%	3.12%
1993	2,006,854	13,795,686	-1.26%	3.06%
1994	1,992,666	14,208,583	-0.71%	2.99%
1995	1,998,534	14,616,801	0.29%	2.87%
1996	2,012,553	15,018,104	0.7%	2.75%
1997	1,996,869	15,417,542	-0.78%	2.66%
1998	2,007,523	15,820,413	0.53%	2.61%
1999	2,017,142	16,228,061	0.48%	2.58%
2000	2,026,350	16,637,888	0.46%	2.53%
2001	2,034,882	17,051,338	0.42%	2.48%
2002	2,020,157	17,468,332	-0.72%	2.45%
2003	2,022,725	17,889,296	0.13%	2.41%
2004	2,016,186	18,336,875	-0.32%	2.5%
2005	2,005,330	18,814,091	-0.54%	2.6%
2006	1,994,287	19,637,022	-0.55%	4.37%
2007	1,982,933	20,884,125	-0.57%	6.35%
2008	1,971,493	21,636,564	-0.58%	3.6%
2009	1,958,782	21,976,969	-0.64%	1.57%
2010	1,946,298	22,482,421	-0.64%	2.3%
2011	1,937,398	22,878,098	-0.46%	1.76%
2012	1,929,821	22,759,763	-0.39%	-0.52%
2013	1,922,716	21,666,917	-0.37%	-4.8%
2014	1,917,557	20,273,659	-0.27%	-6.43%
2015	1,912,430	19,424,618	-0.27%	-4.19%
2016	1,906,313	19,193,834	-0.32%	-1.19%
2017	1,898,657	19,224,668	-0.4%	0.16%
2018	1,889,051	19,577,845	-0.51%	1.84%
2019	1,876,262	20,353,534	-0.68%	3.96%
2020	1,856,124	21,049,429	-1.07%	3.42%
2021	1,837,114	21,628,839	-1.02%	2.75%
2022	1,831,712	22,462,173	-0.29%	3.85%
2023	1,827,816	23,594,623	-0.21%	5.04%
2024	1,792,179	24,672,760	-1.95%	4.57%
2025	1,783,115	25,620,422	-0.51%	3.84%
2026	1,773,550	26,472,499	-0.54%	3.33%
2027	1,763,753	27,261,544	-0.55%	2.98%
2028	1,753,839	28,006,558	-0.56%	2.73%
2029	1,743,553	28,719,309	-0.59%	2.54%
2030	1,732,679	29,395,545	-0.62%	2.35%
2031	1,721,421	30,029,824	-0.65%	2.16%
2032	1,710,089	30,633,661	-0.66%	2.01%
2033	1,698,723	31,212,478	-0.66%	1.89%
2034	1,687,185	31,768,138	-0.68%	1.78%
2035	1,675,373	32,294,792	-0.7%	1.66%
2036	1,663,329	32,788,153	-0.72%	1.53%
2037	1,651,095	33,258,407	-0.74%	1.43%
2038	1,638,881	33,710,718	-0.74%	1.36%
2039	1,626,617	34,131,238	-0.75%	1.25%
2040	1,614,140	34,533,185	-0.77%	1.18%
2041	1,601,579	34,916,936	-0.78%	1.11%
2042	1,588,898	35,279,863	-0.79%	1.04%
2043	1,576,060	35,623,325	-0.81%	0.97%
2044	1,563,352	35,944,394	-0.81%	0.9%
2045	1,550,675	36,265,295	-0.81%	0.89%
2046	1,537,866	36,583,260	-0.83%	0.88%
2047	1,525,180	36,878,640	-0.82%	0.81%
2048	1,512,637	37,171,029	-0.82%	0.79%
2049	1,499,950	37,477,690	-0.84%	0.83%
2050	1,487,102	37,793,378	-0.86%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of North Macedonia decreased by 92,900 people (a 4.63% decline), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, North Macedonia lost -129,315 (a 6.76% decline), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

North Macedonia was ranked 141st most populous country in 2005 and is 150th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th 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 Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.