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The number of illiterate people in North Macedonia is 18,897, show the numbers from the third set of the 2021 census data that was published by the State Statistical Office (SSO) at the start of this month. According to the census that was carried out last year, 1.2% of the population is illiterate. What is especially alarming is that...

We should do more in North Macedonia if we want to lower the number of young people that are fleeing the country. I think we don't have problems when it comes to creating strategies for solving this problem, but the implementation has been lacking, said Meta.mk's Deputy Editor-in-Chief Bojan Blazhevski, speaking at the "The economic migration and brain drain"...

In North Macedonia, there are 638.000 people up to 29 years of age, which is 34.7% of the total resident population in the country. According to the last census performed last year, this is 1,836,713 people. On the other hand, there are 419,125 people aged from 60 to beyond 85, which is 22.8% of the total population. According to the...

At the 2021 Census in North Macedonia, a total of 2,097,319 persons were evidenced, out of whom 1,836,713 are residents living in Macedonia, while 260 606 are non-resident population, announced the Director of the State Statistical Office, Apostol Simovski during yesterday's press conference. Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, has 526,502 residents i.e. the number of the population has been...

North Macedonia has a total of 3,504 people who declared themselves Bulgarians in the census conducted last year, and whose results were announced yesterday. The number of people who reported that they usually speak Bulgarian at home is 762, or more than four times less than the number of registered Bulgarians. Also, this figure is about two times smaller than...

During the Leaders' meeting yesterday between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the opposition party's leader Hristijan Mickoski, it was agreed that the census in North Macedonia will be postponed from April to September, i.e between the 5th and 30th of September this year. This is the key issue that the leaders of the biggest political parties have agreed upon. VMRO-DPMNE...

The self-evidencing records of the State Statistical Office show a number of 171 620 citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia that live abroad and have self-registered themselves using the electronic application since the start of this process i.e. from the 1st of March until today. "In the past 24 hours, 11 101 persons were registered and the numbers according...

The State Statistical Office -SSO of the Republic of North Macedonia - RNM informed this morning that new 6 600 RNM nationals living abroad self-registered themselves online in the census 2021. With this info, in a period of 25 days, since the census began, a total of 143.755 citizens have registered themselves through the application that is available at...

Bujar Osmani, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) informed that the headcount of the diplomatic service ends today, but the online census of the RNM nationals living abroad continues. The number of registered people who live in the diaspora has exceeded 60.000, and most of the people registered live in Switzerland - 16.000, Germany...

Until this morning at 8:50 am, a total of 40 397 persons from the Diaspora were evidenced in the self-evidencing application for the census by the State Statistical Office -SSO, of North Macedonia. The number of registered persons is growing each day and SSO informs that every day they are monitoring the process and are communicating with the North...

Opposition party VMRO-DPMNE announced it will not recognize the results from the census in North Macedonia if it is implemented according to the draft law for the census that entered the parliament today. Party's president Hristijan Mickoski announced during a press conference that the party will start with collecting signatures for the adoption of a new draft law that will...

The Centre for Democratic Transition (CDT) from Podgorica, the leading civil society organization fostering development of democracy in Montenegro, on October 20 published an initiative not to collect data on nation, religion and language in the upcoming census. CTD proposed the initiative with an aim to improve the democratic dialogue between relevant social actors on the future population and housing...

At today's session, the Government also determined the text for the Draft Law on the Census of the Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of North Macedonia for 2020. It was then submitted it to Parliament. The latest news is that the census, to be carried out in the period from April 1 to 21, 2020, will be conducted...

If the population's census in 2020 does not take into account the ethnicity of the population, it risks failing as it did in 2011, as well as the possibility of violating the principle of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) and the Constitution of Macedonia for equitable representation, reports "Portalb.mk". Experts have urged political parties to insist on ethnic and religious...

With over 91% of votes 'For', voters in Macedonia have shown tremendous support to the European path and for a greater perspective of their country in the EU and NATO, said deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Johann David Wadephul. The ruling German CDU/CSU believes that the opposition must not block Macedonia's NATO and EU perspective....

Each of us is obliged to take responsibility for the future of our country. Your vote is your right, do not let anyone take it away. I will commit to respecting the outcome of your choice, regardless of the result. This was announced by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in his address to the public, attended by all ministers in the Government. He called...

The population census will be conducted from 1 to 21 April in 2020. Approximately 5,000 census enumerators will be engaged in the field, and this time round, officials will use combined methods, not solely using only field data, but also data from registers. Operational costs are estimated at 8.5 million euros. This information was given by the director of the...

Katica Janeva and the Special Public Prosecutor's Office turned into caricature, because of the humility in carrying out political orders, VMRO-DPMNE said at today's SPO press conference, where three new investigations were announced - for the annulment of the 2011 census, for Antonio Milososki and for the contract regarding construction of the Demir Kapija-Smokvica highway signed with the Greek...

With 54 votes “for” and 8 “against,” the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (AFET) adopted the draft – resolution for the advancement of the Republic of Macedonia in its European integrations during 2016, reports MIA. Previously, the Euro-MPs had adjusted 28 compromised amendments and today they adopted them all. All of them contain terms such...

The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) has expressed great concern regarding the current situation of Macedonian society and calls for mutual respect, forgiveness, and responsibility. The Synod of the MOC, through a statement after today's session is appealing to all political leaders to preserve the constitutional position of the Macedonian language on the territory of Macedonia, in accordance...