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Macedonia: the total population has dropped 10 percent in the past 20 years (Photo: Bojan Rantasa)

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Demographic crisis in the Balkans

Macedonia: the total population has dropped 10 percent in the past 20 years (Photo: Bojan Rantasa)

No country in the Balkans has been spared from a dangerous combination of migration and population ageing.

Demographically, the tiny nation of Macedonia has it worse than many. The Balkan nation has lost a quarter of its population since the early 1990s. The

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Cristian Gherasim is a freelance journalist contributing to EUobserver, Euronews, EU Reporter, Katoikos, Von Mises Institute, and bne IntelliNews, with a particular focus on European and regional affairs.

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