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ISO 3166
MK
Main language + region
mk-MK
Currency
MKD · Macedonian Denar
Region
EMEA

North Macedonia

North Macedonia has 2.1M people, and 2M of them are online. Macedonian is the most widely spoken language at 67%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Macedonian is official nationally, and Albanian is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to mk-MK.

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Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

2M

0%world median 81%100%

93% of 2.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2025 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$10,490

Higher than 53% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

84%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

3

Macedonian 67% · Albanian 25% · Turkish 3.5%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.

English proficiency

595

Very lowVery high

High proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.

Adult literacy

97%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in North Macedonia

share of 2.1M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR records Macedonian in 3 territories and 1.6M speakers in total; North Macedonia holds 89% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Macedonian profile maps the whole footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (mk-MK).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Cyrillic

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21 април 2026 г.

Short: 21.4.2026 г.

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1.234,56 ден.

1,234.56 in MKD · Macedonian Denar