8 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a drop of the number of passengers that used the public transportation in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, reaching a historic low. Last year, “JSP Skopje” (Public Enterprise for Transportation) buses and the buses of the private transportation companies transported 27.709.556 passengers, which is almost 30 million passengers less […]
22 September 2020
The Car Free Day which is celebrated on the 22nd of September, this year as always is marked with symbolical events from state institutions and municipalities nationwide. As a rule, the officials use this day to photograph themselves as they go on foot to work or as they are driving bicycles. Still, the official statistical […]
2 September 2020
The police officers have registered 43.928 offences of the mandatory face masks wearing measures in the cities throughout the country. During the summer period i.e. during June, July, and August, the biggest number of those offences (20.026) were registered in June, almost twice less were registered in July (11.054) show the data issued by MOI. […]
13 July 2020
The Ministry of Interior (MOI) informed that in the past 24 hours, the police have registered 237 people who were not wearing face masks. This is the smallest number of reported violations by MOI in the past period since the government has issued the order for mandatory wearing personal protection in order to prevent the […]
17 June 2020
The number of traffic accidents with bicyclists has doubled over a period of 15 years. The data provided by the State Statistics Bureau (SSB) shows that in 2019, three bicyclists have died in traffic accidents, while 232 drivers and passengers on bicycles were injured. These numbers are smaller compared to 2018 but are significantly higher […]
4 June 2020
The first four months of the coronavirus crisis in Macedonia have caused serious damage to air traffic. Due to the decision on the 18th of March to close the two airports as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in North Macedonia, by the end of May half a million passengers are “lost”. The […]
8 May 2020
Even with the building of several Sewage Treatment Plants in the country, most of the wastewater that is created is dumped unfiltered in our rivers, lakes, reservoirs and underground water. The data provided by the State Statistical Office show that 72.2% of the total quantities of wastewater is poured into underground and ground waters. In […]
17 February 2020
96,3 % of the young people between the age of 15 and 24, are every day or almost everyday on the Internet where most of the time they use it for sending instant messages via applications such as Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber and Skype, informs the report titled as “The Use of Information-Communication Technologies in Households […]
18 November 2019
At the moment, the City of Skopje lacks 8.000 parking lots in order to solve the problem with the parking of vehicles, but the Gradsko Parking enterprise doesn’t have enough funds to invest in the building of either montage or multistore garage parks that would help in overcoming this lack of parking spaces. \ The […]
8 November 2019
In the center of Skopje, there is a significant demand for parking lots compared to the capacity of the current parking spaces. In the areas that it manages, POC has noticed a lack of 4.030 parking lots. This enterprise stated for Meta.mk that they are managing with 5.173 parking lots on all open and closed […]
1 November 2019
The citizens of Turkey are on the top of the lists of countries ranked by the number of foreign immigrants and the number of foreign tourists in this country, show the latest data provided by the State Statistics Office. Out of вкупно 2.557 foreign settlers in the last year, 812 were from Turkey. Behind them, […]
19 August 2019
The Bosnian market will remain the main foreign market for Macedonian construction companies. According to the data provided by the State Statistics Bureau, the construction workers from this country remain dependent on activities that are accomplished in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to spikes in activities in the period between January and June 2019. The total […]
8 August 2019
Even after the several bus accidents in the country, Macedonian transporters continue importing second-hand buses and minibusses. According to the data of the Customs Administration of the Republic of North Macedonia, in the first six months of the year, 133 busses and minibusses have been imported, out of which up to 120 have already been […]
28 June 2019
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev proclaimed the year 2019 to be the year of the economy and he stressed that an average salary of 500 euros is a limit that is achievable, but among the general public, there is a dilemma whether there is a real possibility of reaching this amount. According to the latest data […]
12 April 2019
The number of transported persons by the public transportation in Macedonia has been dropping through the years, but nevertheless, more and more Macedonian municipalities are deciding to introduce regular public transportation in the cities. The data provided by the State Statistical Bureau indicate that last year 71.400.000 passengers have used urban or suburban transport, while […]
