A consolidated migration profile for North Macedonia:
who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers.
Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.
CapitalSkopje
RegionEurope
SubregionEurope & Central Asia (excluding high income)
Population1,820,909
Refugees hosted20,822People protected here
Refugees from here—Fled abroad
Migrants living here150,902Foreign-born stock
Net migration-5,645Net outflow
Asylum-seekers38Awaiting a decision
Reporting year2025Most recent data
Latest figures · 2025
Key migration numbers
The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.
2025Reporting year
20,822Refugees hosted
38Asylum-seekers
169Applications (year)
Migration balance
Incoming vs outgoing
Annual estimates
Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.
Net migration (year)-5,645Net outflow
Migrants living here150,902Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series
Statistics
Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).
Population profile
Sex, age, religion & more
How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.
Religion
Religious make-up over time
National shares
No religion timeline is recorded for this country yet. See the Religion impact page for the full picture.
Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.
Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.
Sex
Female0.7%
Male0.8%
Unknown98.5%
Age
0-40.4%
12-170.3%
18-590.6%
5-110.4%
Sex
Female0.8%
Male1.2%
Unknown98.0%
Age
0-40.1%
12-170.4%
18-591.0%
5-110.3%
60+0.1%
Sex
Female1.3%
Male1.4%
Unknown97.3%
Age
0-40.2%
12-170.4%
18-591.5%
5-110.5%
60+0.1%
Sex
Female4.9%
Male4.7%
Unknown90.4%
Age
0-40.4%
12-171.6%
18-595.4%
5-111.6%
60+0.6%
Sex
Female44.2%
Male44.4%
Unknown11.4%
Age
0-47.4%
12-1714.9%
18-5949.6%
5-1111.8%
60+4.8%
Sex
Female51.8%
Male48.2%
Age
0-46.9%
12-1716.1%
18-5957.5%
5-1112.6%
60+6.9%
Sex
Female47.8%
Male52.2%
Age
0-47.7%
12-1715.3%
18-5958.0%
5-1113.5%
60+5.5%
Sex
Female52.3%
Male47.7%
Age
0-45.9%
12-1715.9%
18-5958.9%
5-1112.8%
60+6.5%
Sex
Female45.4%
Male43.4%
Unknown11.2%
Age
0-43.9%
12-1714.4%
18-5953.8%
5-1112.1%
60+4.7%
Sex
Female42.8%
Male44.4%
Unknown12.8%
Age
0-45.0%
12-1717.5%
18-5946.2%
5-1113.6%
60+4.9%
Sex
Female44.9%
Male42.7%
Unknown12.4%
Age
0-44.9%
12-1713.1%
18-5949.5%
5-1114.9%
60+5.3%
Sex
Female29.6%
Male61.9%
Unknown8.5%
Age
0-43.2%
12-178.8%
18-5965.2%
5-1111.6%
60+2.7%
Sex
Female31.9%
Male57.4%
Unknown10.7%
Age
0-44.6%
12-1712.0%
18-5959.6%
5-1110.4%
60+2.7%
Sex
Female39.3%
Male46.5%
Unknown14.2%
Age
0-49.0%
12-179.9%
18-5953.1%
5-1111.1%
60+2.6%
Sex
Female42.9%
Male43.4%
Unknown13.7%
Age
0-411.0%
12-179.6%
18-5950.6%
5-1112.3%
60+2.8%
Sex
Female43.7%
Male40.2%
Unknown16.1%
Age
0-410.3%
12-1711.4%
18-5946.2%
5-1113.7%
60+2.4%
Sex
Female42.7%
Male40.2%
Unknown17.1%
Age
0-48.7%
12-1711.5%
18-5946.2%
5-1114.6%
60+1.8%
Sex
Female22.0%
Male22.2%
Unknown55.8%
Age
0-45.1%
12-176.8%
18-5922.0%
5-118.9%
60+1.3%
Sex
Female38.1%
Male36.5%
Unknown25.4%
Age
0-49.0%
12-1711.4%
18-5938.3%
5-1113.5%
60+2.4%
Sex
Female33.5%
Male33.7%
Unknown32.8%
Age
0-48.3%
12-1710.7%
18-5933.1%
5-1113.3%
60+1.8%
Sex
Female23.2%
Male23.0%
Unknown53.8%
Age
0-46.0%
12-178.1%
18-5922.0%
5-118.7%
60+1.3%
Sex
Female13.2%
Male12.4%
Unknown74.4%
Age
0-44.2%
12-174.3%
18-5911.6%
5-114.8%
60+0.7%
Sex
Female9.0%
Male8.6%
Unknown82.4%
Age
5-110.1%
Sex
Female18.9%
Male19.3%
Unknown61.8%
Age
0-43.0%
12-174.7%
18-5921.2%
5-115.4%
60+3.8%
Sex
Female5.8%
Male5.8%
Unknown88.4%
Age
0-40.9%
12-171.5%
18-596.3%
5-111.7%
60+1.2%
Country context
National indicators
Economy
GDP (current US$)19,101,199,817.02 USD2025GDP per capita (current US$)10,489.93 USD2025Unemployment (% of labour force)12.26 %2025Personal remittances received (US$)467,753,136.02 USD2025Personal remittances received (% of GDP)2.45 %2025
Returned refugees5.00 people2023Naturalisations7.00 people2024Returned IDPs6,764.00 people2003
Other
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)76.62 years2024Current health expenditure (% of GDP)7.43 %2023Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)95.76 %2023Gini index33.50 2019Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)3.90 %2019
Context
Migration & quality of life
These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.
Economy
Gross domestic product
World Bank
GDP (current US$)
$19.10B
Reported 2025
GDP per capita (current US$)
$10,490
Reported 2025
Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.
Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).
Public safety
Recorded crime
Not migrant offending
National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.
Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.96
Homicide
1.53
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.32
Homicide
0.98
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.32
Homicide
0.76
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.62
Homicide
0.59
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.51
Homicide
1.21
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.92
Homicide
1.30
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.40
Homicide
1.60
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.60
Homicide
0.97
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.20
Homicide
1.26
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.98
Homicide
1.75
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.68
Homicide
1.09
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.07
Homicide
1.43
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.39
Homicide
1.47
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.44
Homicide
2.10
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.14
Homicide
1.70
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.85
Homicide
1.69
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.04
Homicide
2.02
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.85
Homicide
2.20
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.87
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.15
Homicide
2.35
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.60
Homicide
3.36
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.82
Homicide
2.89
Crime
Rate / 100k
72.00
Homicide
2.66
Crime
Rate / 100k
1.10
Homicide
2.28
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.82
Homicide
1.86
Crime
Rate / 100k
0.92
Homicide
2.36
Public expenditure
Expenses
Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.
Year
Amount (USD)
Category
2023
$414,461,212
ODA received
2022
$225,123,276
ODA received
2021
$339,202,637
ODA received
2020
$283,989,777
ODA received
2019
$140,524,384
ODA received
2018
$170,320,496
ODA received
2017
$149,945,587
ODA received
2016
$168,354,416
ODA received
2015
$214,319,489
ODA received
2014
$211,918,839
ODA received
2013
$196,726,593
ODA received
2012
$147,710,953
ODA received
2011
$192,289,703
ODA received
2010
$194,020,004
ODA received
2009
$194,219,650
ODA received
2008
$202,802,963
ODA received
2007
$201,833,389
ODA received
2006
$200,850,006
ODA received
2005
$227,398,468
ODA received
2004
$264,004,120
ODA received
2003
$266,106,293
ODA received
2002
$273,857,819
ODA received
2001
$247,637,161
ODA received
2000
$250,854,996
ODA received
1999
$276,945,007
ODA received
1998
$104,910,004
ODA received
1997
$98,279,999
ODA received
1996
$105,389,999
ODA received
1995
$78,800,003
ODA received
1994
$104,260,002
ODA received
1993
$3,320,000
ODA received
Sources & notes
Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.
