North Macedonia - Rural population

Rural population

The value for Rural population in North Macedonia was 860,473 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 982,224 in 1960 and a minimum value of 796,768 in 1994.

Definition: Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 982,224
1961 976,744
1962 970,127
1963 963,287
1964 956,437
1965 949,809
1966 943,499
1967 937,358
1968 930,456
1969 921,790
1970 910,667
1971 900,276
1972 898,061
1973 894,991
1974 892,414
1975 891,245
1976 891,767
1977 893,511
1978 895,470
1979 896,389
1980 895,351
1981 892,967
1982 891,006
1983 887,541
1984 883,036
1985 877,900
1986 872,191
1987 865,924
1988 858,966
1989 851,203
1990 842,624
1991 832,523
1992 820,043
1993 807,676
1994 796,768
1995 801,494
1996 808,111
1997 815,282
1998 823,787
1999 831,930
2000 839,963
2001 847,752
2002 845,840
2003 852,846
2004 859,543
2005 865,012
2006 869,484
2007 873,335
2008 876,584
2009 879,389
2010 881,823
2011 883,278
2012 883,673
2013 883,633
2014 883,141
2015 881,751
2016 879,503
2017 876,519
2018 872,779
2019 867,892
2020 860,473

Rural population (% of total population)

Rural population (% of total population) in North Macedonia was 41.52 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 65.98 in 1960, while its lowest value was 40.21 in 1994.

Definition: Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

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1960 65.98
1961 64.79
1962 63.53
1963 62.25
1964 60.95
1965 59.65
1966 58.32
1967 56.98
1968 55.64
1969 54.28
1970 52.92
1971 51.75
1972 51.17
1973 50.59
1974 50.01
1975 49.43
1976 48.85
1977 48.27
1978 47.69
1979 47.11
1980 46.53
1981 45.99
1982 45.57
1983 45.15
1984 44.72
1985 44.30
1986 43.88
1987 43.46
1988 43.05
1989 42.63
1990 42.21
1991 41.77
1992 41.24
1993 40.71
1994 40.21
1995 40.41
1996 40.62
1997 40.83
1998 41.04
1999 41.24
2000 41.45
2001 41.66
2002 41.87
2003 42.08
2004 42.29
2005 42.47
2006 42.62
2007 42.74
2008 42.83
2009 42.88
2010 42.91
2011 42.91
2012 42.88
2013 42.81
2014 42.72
2015 42.59
2016 42.44
2017 42.25
2018 42.04
2019 41.79
2020 41.52

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization