Demographics
The first census after the creation of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1953 recorded the population of Tetovo at 20,594 individuals, of whom a plurality of 7,916 (38.4%) were Macedonian, 7,174 or 34.8% were Albanian, 4,472 or 21.7% were Turkish and 503 or 2.4% were Serbs.
As of 2002, the city of Tetovo has 52,915 inhabitants and the ethnic composition was the following:
- Albanians - 28,897 (54.6%)
- Macedonians - 18,555 (35.1%)
- Roma - 2,352 (4.5%)
- Turks - 1,878 (3.6%)
- Serbs - 587 (1.1%)
- Bosniaks - 156 (0.3%)
- others - 490 (0.9%)
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