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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	North Macedonia	Ukraine	North Macedonia	Ukraine
1960	1,435,059	42,824,093	-	-
1961	1,455,171	43,399,766	1.4%	1.34%
1962	1,471,745	43,943,674	1.14%	1.25%
1963	1,488,737	44,462,372	1.15%	1.18%
1964	1,510,900	44,951,156	1.49%	1.1%
1965	1,533,466	45,386,892	1.49%	0.97%
1966	1,557,349	45,802,519	1.56%	0.92%
1967	1,582,492	46,215,988	1.61%	0.9%
1968	1,608,930	46,614,325	1.67%	0.86%
1969	1,636,345	46,976,256	1.7%	0.78%
1970	1,664,208	47,261,306	1.7%	0.61%
1971	1,691,216	47,573,287	1.62%	0.66%
1972	1,717,395	47,946,893	1.55%	0.79%
1973	1,743,816	48,277,121	1.54%	0.69%
1974	1,770,545	48,576,570	1.53%	0.62%
1975	1,797,972	48,865,229	1.55%	0.59%
1976	1,825,830	49,120,842	1.55%	0.52%
1977	1,853,138	49,336,481	1.5%	0.44%
1978	1,879,847	49,521,243	1.44%	0.37%
1979	1,906,523	49,721,381	1.42%	0.4%
1980	1,933,038	49,955,152	1.39%	0.47%
1981	1,959,065	50,189,281	1.35%	0.47%
1982	1,978,956	50,402,724	1.02%	0.43%
1983	1,991,901	50,637,029	0.65%	0.46%
1984	2,003,399	50,887,599	0.58%	0.49%
1985	2,014,331	51,108,770	0.55%	0.43%
1986	2,024,732	51,318,745	0.52%	0.41%
1987	2,035,157	51,515,732	0.51%	0.38%
1988	2,045,737	51,724,853	0.52%	0.41%
1989	2,055,649	51,917,817	0.48%	0.37%
1990	2,063,689	52,054,092	0.39%	0.26%
1991	2,055,994	52,170,961	-0.37%	0.22%
1992	2,032,523	52,323,671	-1.14%	0.29%
1993	2,006,854	52,350,126	-1.26%	0.05%
1994	1,992,666	52,075,998	-0.71%	-0.52%
1995	1,998,534	51,665,539	0.29%	-0.79%
1996	2,012,553	51,226,109	0.7%	-0.85%
1997	1,996,869	50,786,885	-0.78%	-0.86%
1998	2,007,523	50,379,731	0.53%	-0.8%
1999	2,017,142	49,976,446	0.48%	-0.8%
2000	2,026,350	49,556,660	0.46%	-0.84%
2001	2,034,882	49,106,855	0.42%	-0.91%
2002	2,020,157	48,677,281	-0.72%	-0.87%
2003	2,022,725	48,315,136	0.13%	-0.74%
2004	2,016,186	47,979,507	-0.32%	-0.69%
2005	2,005,330	47,585,556	-0.54%	-0.82%
2006	1,994,287	47,278,694	-0.55%	-0.64%
2007	1,982,933	47,062,798	-0.57%	-0.46%
2008	1,971,493	46,819,175	-0.58%	-0.52%
2009	1,958,782	46,623,731	-0.64%	-0.42%
2010	1,946,298	46,456,003	-0.64%	-0.36%
2011	1,937,398	46,307,853	-0.46%	-0.32%
2012	1,929,821	46,210,056	-0.39%	-0.21%
2013	1,922,716	46,126,770	-0.37%	-0.18%
2014	1,917,557	45,972,380	-0.27%	-0.33%
2015	1,912,430	45,784,896	-0.27%	-0.41%
2016	1,906,313	45,616,832	-0.32%	-0.37%
2017	1,898,657	45,436,041	-0.4%	-0.4%
2018	1,889,051	45,208,907	-0.51%	-0.5%
2019	1,876,262	44,957,458	-0.68%	-0.56%
2020	1,856,124	44,680,014	-1.07%	-0.62%
2021	1,837,114	44,298,640	-1.02%	-0.85%
2022	1,831,712	41,048,766	-0.29%	-7.34%
2023	1,827,816	37,732,836	-0.21%	-8.08%
2024	1,792,179	37,860,221	-1.95%	0.34%
2025	1,783,115	38,980,379	-0.51%	2.96%
2026	1,773,550	39,535,850	-0.54%	1.43%
2027	1,763,753	39,245,208	-0.55%	-0.74%
2028	1,753,839	38,952,086	-0.56%	-0.75%
2029	1,743,553	38,654,416	-0.59%	-0.76%
2030	1,732,679	38,353,848	-0.62%	-0.78%
2031	1,721,421	38,050,624	-0.65%	-0.79%
2032	1,710,089	37,746,688	-0.66%	-0.8%
2033	1,698,723	37,442,088	-0.66%	-0.81%
2034	1,687,185	37,135,839	-0.68%	-0.82%
2035	1,675,373	36,828,149	-0.7%	-0.83%
2036	1,663,329	36,519,767	-0.72%	-0.84%
2037	1,651,095	36,209,679	-0.74%	-0.85%
2038	1,638,881	35,897,705	-0.74%	-0.86%
2039	1,626,617	35,584,263	-0.75%	-0.87%
2040	1,614,140	35,270,911	-0.77%	-0.88%
2041	1,601,579	34,957,580	-0.78%	-0.89%
2042	1,588,898	34,641,778	-0.79%	-0.9%
2043	1,576,060	34,324,132	-0.81%	-0.92%
2044	1,563,352	34,004,074	-0.81%	-0.93%
2045	1,550,675	33,680,448	-0.81%	-0.95%
2046	1,537,866	33,351,499	-0.83%	-0.98%
2047	1,525,180	33,017,828	-0.82%	-1%
2048	1,512,637	32,680,968	-0.82%	-1.02%
2049	1,499,950	32,338,515	-0.84%	-1.05%
2050	1,487,102	31,990,136	-0.86%	-1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of North Macedonia decreased by 92,900 people (a 4.63% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, North Macedonia lost -129,315 (a 6.76% decline), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

North Macedonia was ranked 141st most populous country in 2005 and is 150th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.