By the end of this century, there will be half a million less people in Macedonia, according to the latest report on the prospects of the global population of the United Nations, under which the country is on the 29th place in the group of 43 countries that are faced with the problem of depopulation.
The report says that Macedonia in 1950 had a population of 1.2 million, and last year the country had about 2.078.000 citizens. It is estimated that this figure will remain the same in 2030, but twenty years later down the line in 2050, the Macedonian population will decrease by 141 000 people, or 6.8 percent less than in 2015.
According to estimates by the UN in 2050 Macedonia will have a population of 1.9 million, and at the end of the century it will shrink to 1.48 million.
The United Nations also estimated that other Western Balkan countries will also have fewer citizens at the end of the century. According to their predictions, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which currently has 3.81 million inhabitants, in 2100 there will be 1.91 million and Albania from the current 2.89 million in 2100 will have only 1.75 million people. The population will decrease in Croatia, from the current 4.24 million to 2.61 million, while in Montenegro in 2100 there will only be 437 000 citizens, as opposed to the current 626 000.
Declining population will be registered in Slovenia, where in 2100 there will be an estimated 1.69 million citizens, as opposed to the current 2.06 million, while in Serbia from the current 8.58 million in 2100 there will be 5.33 million.
