Macedonia is above the European average in terms of the percentage of the working-age population. In the country, 59.5% of the population is of working age (persons aged 20 to 64), whereas in the EU, this group accounts for 58.3% of the population, according to Eurostat data.
Among Macedonia’s eight planning regions, the Polog region has the highest percentage of working-age citizens (61.6%), while the Skopje region has the lowest (58.3%).
In the EU, the proportion of the working-age population is highest in 22 German regions (63.0%), as well as in several regions of Denmark and the Spanish island regions. Conversely, in 189 EU regions, the working-age population accounts for less than 55.0% of the total population.