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Why is it so difficult to hold a census in North Macedonia?


Why is it so difficult to hold a census in North Macedonia?
Fatjona Mejdini
© A man passes an ethnic Albanian mural in Skopje, North Macedonia, on October 1, 2018 [File:AP/Thanas.
A man passes an ethnic Albanian mural in Skopje, North Macedonia, on October 1, 2018 [File:AP/Thanassis Stavrakis]
Registering a country’s population is a routine statistical endeavour, carried out once every five or 10 years without much fanfare or disagreement in most countries. But this has never been the case in North Macedonia, a multiethnic country in the Balkan region.
The complexity of the process, its politicisation, and fears over the potential repercussions of revealing the exact breakdown of different ethnicities have left the NATO country and aspiring European Union-member without census data for 20 years. ....

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