Tag: demographics
Macedonia 16.12.23 | 13:53

Population collapse: Macedonia will have just 1.3 million people in 2070

Macedonia faces population collapse, and will be down to 1.3 million citizens by 2070, estimates a recent report prepared by the Stata Statistics Bureau. The alarming report was presented at the Parliament yesterday. The main reason for this situation is the high level of emigration, followed by the...

Macedonia 31.07.20 | 13:31

In 10 years, high school lost a quarter of their students

The number of high school students dropped by 23.6 percent in ten years, a report by the State Statistics Bureau found. According to the report, there were 94,387 high school students in 2008. This number dropped to 86,936 in 2013 and by the 2018-2019 school year it was down to 72,123. This is a net...

World 05.09.19 | 21:35

Orban: If a nation vanishes, something irreplaceable will be lost from the world

Hungarian Prime Minister viktor Orban declared that for the survival of a nation, it is fundamentally important to understand and pass appropriate family policies, in his remarks at the 3rd Demographic Summit in Budapest. A family support system shall be introduced which guarantees that the life standards...

Macedonia 02.07.19 | 15:10

Gjorcev on the 2018 drop in births: Macedonia is imploding

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Vladimir Gjorcev presented the latest demographics figures in Macedonia as catastrophic. Gjorcev said that the number of newborns fell to 21.333 in 2018, the lowest number in the past 70 years and a drop of 1.700 in two years. This is a reduction of 7.3 percent. If the...