Tag: statistics
Economy 24.10.19 | 17:14

Mickoski: Zaev is cooking the books to paint a fake rosy picture of the economy

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski accused the Zaev Government of manipulating macro-economic data to portray a fake rosy picture of the Macedonian economy. Each of the passing three years the Government promised to focus on the economy and to deliver a 5 percent GDP growth. It failed to get half...

Macedonia 20.09.19 | 10:44

Zaev’s head of the Statistics Bureau denies his claims about “phantom voters”

Apostol Simovski, the head of the State Statistics Bureau, dismissed one of the most frequently repeated claims by Zoran Zaev, while he was in the opposition. Zaev and his SDSM party insisted that there is a huge number of phantom voters on the electoral rolls, and refused to participate in elections...

Macedonia 21.03.19 | 10:55

Number of students in elementary and high school education drops by 0.9 and 2.2 percent

The number of elementary school pupils in Macedonia dropped by 0.9 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, down to a total of 188.517. The drop among high school students was even greater, by 2.2 percent, down to 70.861, reported the DZS State Statistics Bureau. About 120.000 of elementary school...

Economy 12.03.19 | 15:05

Drop in the number of foreign tourists

The number of tourists in Macedonia dropped by 0.7 percent in January, and the number of nights they spent in the country was down 4.3 percent. Statistics show that the number of domestic tourists grew by 2.6 percent, and the drop was due to the 2.7 drop in foreign tourists. A total of 49.021 tourists...