North Macedonia published Wednesday the official data of the National Census, where it results that ethnic Albanians make up one-third of the country’s population.
29.5% of the general population consists of ethnic Albanians, of which 24.3% are residential citizens,
Meanwhile, 22.8% of the population in the capital Skopje is Albanian.
Put differently the number of the Albanian population in North Macedonia is 619,187.
Macedonians make up 54.21% of the entire population, that is around 1.1 million inhabitants.
According to the data published by the statistics institute, 1.832.696 people were registered in the census that took place 5-30 September 2021.
The last census in North Macedonia was carried out in 2002. At the time, the country counted nearly 2 million inhabitants, of which some 25% were ethnic Albanians.
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