Population in North Macedonia compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

North Macedonia and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	North Macedonia	United Kingdom	North Macedonia	United Kingdom
1960	1,435,059	52,400,000	-	-
1961	1,455,171	52,800,000	1.4%	0.76%
1962	1,471,745	53,250,000	1.14%	0.85%
1963	1,488,737	53,650,000	1.15%	0.75%
1964	1,510,900	54,000,000	1.49%	0.65%
1965	1,533,466	54,348,050	1.49%	0.64%
1966	1,557,349	54,648,500	1.56%	0.55%
1967	1,582,492	54,943,600	1.61%	0.54%
1968	1,608,930	55,211,700	1.67%	0.49%
1969	1,636,345	55,441,750	1.7%	0.42%
1970	1,664,208	55,663,250	1.7%	0.4%
1971	1,691,216	55,896,223	1.62%	0.42%
1972	1,717,395	56,086,065	1.55%	0.34%
1973	1,743,816	56,194,527	1.54%	0.19%
1974	1,770,545	56,229,974	1.53%	0.06%
1975	1,797,972	56,225,800	1.55%	-0.007%
1976	1,825,830	56,211,968	1.55%	-0.02%
1977	1,853,138	56,193,492	1.5%	-0.03%
1978	1,879,847	56,196,504	1.44%	0.005%
1979	1,906,523	56,246,951	1.42%	0.09%
1980	1,933,038	56,314,216	1.39%	0.12%
1981	1,959,065	56,333,829	1.35%	0.03%
1982	1,978,956	56,313,641	1.02%	-0.04%
1983	1,991,901	56,332,848	0.65%	0.03%
1984	2,003,399	56,422,072	0.58%	0.16%
1985	2,014,331	56,550,268	0.55%	0.23%
1986	2,024,732	56,681,396	0.52%	0.23%
1987	2,035,157	56,802,050	0.51%	0.21%
1988	2,045,737	56,928,327	0.52%	0.22%
1989	2,055,649	57,076,711	0.48%	0.26%
1990	2,063,689	57,247,586	0.39%	0.3%
1991	2,055,994	57,424,897	-0.37%	0.31%
1992	2,032,523	57,580,402	-1.14%	0.27%
1993	2,006,854	57,718,614	-1.26%	0.24%
1994	1,992,666	57,865,745	-0.71%	0.25%
1995	1,998,534	58,019,030	0.29%	0.26%
1996	2,012,553	58,166,950	0.7%	0.25%
1997	1,996,869	58,316,954	-0.78%	0.26%
1998	2,007,523	58,487,141	0.53%	0.29%
1999	2,017,142	58,682,466	0.48%	0.33%
2000	2,026,350	58,892,514	0.46%	0.36%
2001	2,034,882	59,119,673	0.42%	0.39%
2002	2,020,157	59,370,479	-0.72%	0.42%
2003	2,022,725	59,647,577	0.13%	0.47%
2004	2,016,186	59,987,905	-0.32%	0.57%
2005	2,005,330	60,401,206	-0.54%	0.69%
2006	1,994,287	60,846,820	-0.55%	0.74%
2007	1,982,933	61,322,463	-0.57%	0.78%
2008	1,971,493	61,806,995	-0.58%	0.79%
2009	1,958,782	62,276,270	-0.64%	0.76%
2010	1,946,298	62,766,365	-0.64%	0.79%
2011	1,937,398	63,258,810	-0.46%	0.78%
2012	1,929,821	63,711,000	-0.39%	0.71%
2013	1,922,716	64,139,000	-0.37%	0.67%
2014	1,917,557	64,620,000	-0.27%	0.75%
2015	1,912,430	65,088,000	-0.27%	0.72%
2016	1,906,313	65,607,000	-0.32%	0.8%
2017	1,898,657	65,966,000	-0.4%	0.55%
2018	1,889,051	66,289,000	-0.51%	0.49%
2019	1,876,262	66,631,000	-0.68%	0.52%
2020	1,856,124	66,744,000	-1.07%	0.17%
2021	1,837,114	66,984,000	-1.02%	0.36%
2022	1,831,712	67,604,000	-0.29%	0.93%
2023	1,827,816	68,492,000	-0.21%	1.31%
2024	1,792,179	69,226,000	-1.95%	1.07%
2025	1,783,115	69,639,673	-0.51%	0.6%
2026	1,773,550	70,020,350	-0.54%	0.55%
2027	1,763,753	70,382,853	-0.55%	0.52%
2028	1,753,839	70,732,699	-0.56%	0.5%
2029	1,743,553	71,061,482	-0.59%	0.46%
2030	1,732,679	71,377,535	-0.62%	0.44%
2031	1,721,421	71,678,351	-0.65%	0.42%
2032	1,710,089	71,959,934	-0.66%	0.39%
2033	1,698,723	72,234,509	-0.66%	0.38%
2034	1,687,185	72,497,650	-0.68%	0.36%
2035	1,675,373	72,749,096	-0.7%	0.35%
2036	1,663,329	72,990,847	-0.72%	0.33%
2037	1,651,095	73,218,850	-0.74%	0.31%
2038	1,638,881	73,441,349	-0.74%	0.3%
2039	1,626,617	73,658,392	-0.75%	0.3%
2040	1,614,140	73,868,334	-0.77%	0.29%
2041	1,601,579	74,074,316	-0.78%	0.28%
2042	1,588,898	74,275,779	-0.79%	0.27%
2043	1,576,060	74,475,035	-0.81%	0.27%
2044	1,563,352	74,667,284	-0.81%	0.26%
2045	1,550,675	74,848,605	-0.81%	0.24%
2046	1,537,866	75,020,949	-0.83%	0.23%
2047	1,525,180	75,184,478	-0.82%	0.22%
2048	1,512,637	75,337,543	-0.82%	0.2%
2049	1,499,950	75,476,141	-0.84%	0.18%
2050	1,487,102	75,600,588	-0.86%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of North Macedonia decreased by 92,900 people (a 4.63% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, North Macedonia lost -129,315 (a 6.76% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

North Macedonia was ranked 141st most populous country in 2005 and is 150th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.