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North Macedonia: data.gov.mk

data.gov.mk holds 768 public datasets with 1,605 resources from 62 active publishers.

Catalogue overview

Datasets

768

Resources

1,605

2.09 per dataset

Active publishers

62

Listed organisations

132

registered on the portal, incl. 70 with no public dataset

Groups

9 listed

1 in use, by 4 datasets

Platform

CKAN 2.10.9

41 extensions installed, incl. dcat, dcat_json_interface, mk_dcatap

Homepage on 9 Oct 2026: · · · Later validation readings; the canonical values above come from the research snapshot.

Regional context: North Macedonia and SerbiaContext only

Regional context only: Serbia is not part of the core comparison, and these figures are not a ranking.

North Macedonia and Serbia, regional context

  • Datasets

    North Macedonia
    768 datasets
    Serbia (context)
    3,509 datasets
    Note
    Both count datasets; CKAN 2.10.9 and udata.

  • Resources

    North Macedonia
    1,605 resources
    Serbia (context)
    7,113 resources
    Note
    Files and links attached to datasets.

  • Organisations

    North Macedonia
    132 listed
    Serbia (context)
    219 registered
    Note
    Listed or registered organisations, not active publishers.

  • Largest publisher

    North Macedonia
    Municipality of Karpoš: 68 datasets (8.9 %)
    Serbia (context)
    1,627 datasets (46.4 %)
    Note
    Share of each portal's own datasets.

  • Records on data.europa.eu

    North Macedonia
    0 records
    Serbia (context)
    3,527 records
    Note
    Same provenance facet of the EU portal (S1).

Who publishes?

62 of 132 listed organisations published at least one public dataset in the snapshot; 70 had none.

62 of 132 listed organisations published at least one public dataset

Listed organisations by publishing status · S2

In words: All listed (132): 62 published (47.0 %), 70 did not; Local government (72): 18 published (25.0 %), 54 did not; Central bodies and others (60): 44 published (73.3 %), 16 did not.

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  • Published at least one public dataset
  • No public dataset in the snapshot

Listed organisations are not the same as active publishers.

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:02 UTC · ·

Three municipalities publish the most datasets; the top five hold 32.3 %

Datasets per active publisher, top 15 with ties kept · S2

In words: Datasets per publisher: Municipality of Karpoš 68, Municipality of Demir Hisar 57, Municipality of Gazi Baba 52, Ministry of Internal Affairs 38, Agency for Administration of North Macedonia 33, Municipality of Valandovo 33, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning 26, Municipality of Kruševo 25, Government of the Republic of North Macedonia 24, Municipality of Konče 24, Municipality of Kriva Palanka 24, Ministry of Social Policy, Demography and Youth 23, Municipality of Demir Kapija 23, Ministry of Finance 22, Municipality of Novaci 20.

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  • Local government (project rule)
  • Central bodies and others

47 other active publishers hold 276 datasets (35.9 %).

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

The five largest publishers hold 248 datasets (32.3 %).

Active publishers in the snapshot (ranked by datasets; ties share a rank)

  • Municipality of Karpoš

    Rank
    1
    Original title
    Општина Карпош
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    68
    Share of datasets
    8.9 %

  • Municipality of Demir Hisar

    Rank
    2
    Original title
    Општина Демир Хисар
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    57
    Share of datasets
    7.4 %

  • Municipality of Gazi Baba

    Rank
    3
    Original title
    Општина Гази Баба
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    52
    Share of datasets
    6.8 %

  • Ministry of Internal Affairs

    Rank
    4
    Original title
    МВР
    Type
    Central body or other
    Datasets
    38
    Share of datasets
    4.9 %

  • Agency for Administration of North Macedonia

    Rank
    5
    Original title
    Агенција за администрација на РСМ
    Type
    Central body or other
    Datasets
    33
    Share of datasets
    4.3 %

  • Municipality of Valandovo

    Rank
    5
    Original title
    Општина Валандово
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    33
    Share of datasets
    4.3 %

  • Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning

    Rank
    7
    Original title
    МЖСПП
    Type
    Central body or other
    Datasets
    26
    Share of datasets
    3.4 %

  • Municipality of Kruševo

    Rank
    8
    Original title
    Општина Крушево
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    25
    Share of datasets
    3.3 %

  • Government of the Republic of North Macedonia

    Rank
    9
    Original title
    Влада на Република Северна Македонија
    Type
    Central body or other
    Datasets
    24
    Share of datasets
    3.1 %

  • Municipality of Konče

    Rank
    9
    Original title
    Општина Конче
    Type
    Local government
    Datasets
    24
    Share of datasets
    3.1 %

Source: data.gov.mk organisations and S2 crawl (mk_publishers.csv, mk_publisher_names_en.csv) · · Download the table

The snapshot does not record why a listed organisation has no public dataset.

What topics does the data cover?

653 of 768 datasets (85.0 %) carry at least one theme; 115 (15.0 %) carry none.

85.0 % of North Macedonian datasets carry at least one theme

Share of 768 datasets with at least one EU data-theme code · S2 crawl

In words: 653 of 768 datasets (85.0 %) carry at least one theme; 115 (15.0 %) carry none.

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  • With a theme
  • No theme

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

Government and economy lead the 13 themes used in North Macedonia

Datasets per theme code, of 768 datasets · S2 crawl

In words: Datasets per theme: Government 312 (40.6 %), Economy and finance 171 (22.3 %), Regions and cities 73 (9.5 %), Agriculture and food 56 (7.3 %), Population and society 55 (7.2 %), Education, culture, sport 52 (6.8 %), Environment 39 (5.1 %), Justice and safety 32 (4.2 %), Transport 13 (1.7 %), Health 7 (0.9 %), Energy 7 (0.9 %), Science and technology 3 (0.4 %), International issues 1 (0.1 %). Themes overlap.

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Theme assignments overlap because a dataset may belong to more than one theme: 821 assignments on 653 datasets. Shares are never summed.

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

Government is 38.0 % of North Macedonian theme tags, three times its EU-portal share

Share of theme assignments: North Macedonia (S2 crawl) and the EU-portal profile (S1)

Same vocabulary, but the EU profile counts aggregated records dominated by one country.

In words: Share of theme tags, North Macedonia versus EU portal: Government 38.0 % vs 12.1 %; Economy and finance 20.8 % vs 9.2 %; Regions and cities 8.9 % vs 8.1 %; Agriculture and food 6.8 % vs 20.9 %; Population and society 6.7 % vs 8.2 %; Education, culture, sport 6.3 % vs 3.5 %; Environment 4.8 % vs 11.7 %; Justice and safety 3.9 % vs 9.6 %; Transport 1.6 % vs 3.7 %; Health 0.9 % vs 2.6 %; Energy 0.9 % vs 1.0 %; Science and technology 0.4 % vs 9.1 %; International issues 0.1 % vs 0.2 %.

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  • North Macedonia
  • EU portal (reference)

The EU-portal profile is a reference, not a target: 49.2 % of its records come from Germany.

Source: data.europa.eu, S1, 2026-10-08 22:22 UTC · ·

No cross-country theme mapping is used where a reliable taxonomy crosswalk is unavailable. North Macedonia is compared only with the EU portal, which uses the same EU data-theme vocabulary; the other national portals keep their own category schemes.

Counts overlap because datasets can have more than one theme. CKAN groups are a separate mechanism: 9 listed, 1 used by 4 datasets. Explained in methodology

In what formats?

1,605 resources were crawled; XLSX and XLS make up 57.3 % of them.

Spreadsheets are 57.3 % of data.gov.mk resources; JSON appears 7 times

Resources by normalised format, of 1,605 resources · S2 crawl

In words: Resources by format: XLSX 785 (48.9 %), CSV 513 (32.0 %), XLS 134 (8.3 %), PDF 69 (4.3 %), No format given 45 (2.8 %), DOC/DOCX 27 (1.7 %), XML 18 (1.1 %), HTML 7 (0.4 %), JSON 7 (0.4 %).

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  • Open and machine-readable
  • Machine-readable, proprietary
  • Not machine-readable
  • No format given

Format classes follow the project rule; see Methodology, format normalisation.

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

452 datasets (58.9 %) offer CSV; 7 (0.9 %) offer JSON.

Netherlands: JSON in 45.6 % of records (same dataset-level measure).

Show the raw format labels and the format each maps to

19 raw labels map to 9 formats, for example "CSV", ".csv" and "cvs". 45 resources carry no format.

Raw format labels on data.gov.mk resources

  • XLSX

    Normalised format
    XLSX
    Resources
    430

  • CSV

    Normalised format
    CSV
    Resources
    428

  • .xlsx

    Normalised format
    XLSX
    Resources
    334

  • XLS

    Normalised format
    XLS
    Resources
    126

  • .csv

    Normalised format
    CSV
    Resources
    84

  • PDF

    Normalised format
    PDF
    Resources
    67

  • (empty)

    Normalised format
    No format given
    Resources
    45

  • xlxs

    Normalised format
    XLSX
    Resources
    21

  • XML

    Normalised format
    XML
    Resources
    15

  • .doc

    Normalised format
    DOC/DOCX
    Resources
    13

  • .xls

    Normalised format
    XLS
    Resources
    8

  • .word

    Normalised format
    DOC/DOCX
    Resources
    8

  • HTML

    Normalised format
    HTML
    Resources
    7

  • JSON

    Normalised format
    JSON
    Resources
    7

  • DOCX

    Normalised format
    DOC/DOCX
    Resources
    4

  • .xml

    Normalised format
    XML
    Resources
    3

  • .pdf

    Normalised format
    PDF
    Resources
    2

  • DOC

    Normalised format
    DOC/DOCX
    Resources
    2

  • cvs

    Normalised format
    CSV
    Resources
    1
Formats are normalised and classed by the project rule. Explained in methodology

How machine-readable is it?

Two project-defined indicators summarise the 1,605 resources. Neither is an official rating.

90.78 % of resources are machine-readable under the project rule

Share of 1,605 resources · S2 crawl

Not an official rating or quality score.

In words: Machine-readable: 1,457 / 1,605 = 90.78 %. Not machine-readable: 148. Project-defined indicator.

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  • Not machine-readable

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

33.52 % of resources use an open format under the project rule

Share of 1,605 resources · S2 crawl

Not an official rating or quality score.

In words: Open format: 538 / 1,605 = 33.52 %. Other formats: 1,067. Project-defined indicator.

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  • Open format
  • Other formats

Source: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

697 datasets (90.8 %) offer at least one machine-readable resource.

Both indicators are project rules, not official ratings or quality scores. Explained in methodology

Is the licence stated?

171 of 768 datasets (22.3 %) carry an open-licence identifier.

22.3 % of North Macedonian datasets carry an open-licence identifier; 89.6 % of Dutch records do

Share of each portal's own records by licence identifier · MK S1, NL S2

Same CKAN license_id field in both portals.

In words: North Macedonia: open-licence id 171 (22.3 %), not specified 390 (50.8 %), no licence id 207 (27.0 %). Netherlands: open-licence id 18,624 (89.6 %), other or none 2,167 (10.4 %).

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  • Open-licence identifier (North Macedonia)
  • Licence "not specified"
  • No licence identifier
  • Open-licence identifier (Netherlands)
  • Other or none

Open-licence identifiers: CC0 116 · other open 39 · other public domain 12 · CC-BY 4

The Dutch register also contains non-public records.

Sources: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S1, 2026-10-08 22:21 UTC; data.overheid.nl (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

A licence identifier tells reusers, from the metadata alone, which terms apply. Where it is missing or 'not specified', reusers must check each dataset separately. This describes the metadata, not the legal status of the data.

Metadata records modified in the last 12 months

North Macedonia 33.6 %, United Kingdom 53.0 %, Netherlands 81.7 %

Metadata records modified in the last 12 months

North Macedonia 33.6 %, United Kingdom 53.0 %, Netherlands 81.7 %

Same CKAN query on all three portals; S1 and S2 about 42 minutes apart.

In words: Share of own records with metadata modified in 12 months: North Macedonia 258 / 768 = 33.59 %; United Kingdom 31,543 / 59,491 = 53.02 %; Netherlands 16,982 / 20,791 = 81.68 %.

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metadata_modified reflects catalogue metadata activity and does not necessarily mean the underlying dataset itself changed.

Sources: data.gov.mk (CKAN API), S1, 2026-10-08 22:21 UTC; data.gov.uk (CKAN API), S1, 2026-10-08 22:21 UTC; data.overheid.nl (CKAN API), S2, 2026-10-08 23:03 UTC · ·

metadata_modified reflects catalogue metadata activity and does not necessarily mean the underlying dataset itself changed. The same CKAN query was run on all three portals; North Macedonia and the United Kingdom in S1, the Netherlands in S2, about 42 minutes later. Explained in methodology

Is North Macedonia visible on the EU portal?

North Macedonia: 0 records (absent from the complete provenance facet)

Records on data.europa.eu

0

0 records: North Macedonia is absent from the complete 38-value provenance facet.

North Macedonia had no records on data.europa.eu; Serbia, Montenegro and Albania did

Records on data.europa.eu by provenance, selected non-EU European countries · S1

Same provenance facet for every country.

In words: Records on data.europa.eu: Serbia 3,527, Montenegro 917, Albania 153, North Macedonia 0.

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  • North Macedonia
  • Serbia (regional context)
  • Other non-EU European countries

Countries are shown only where the snapshot's provenance facet lists them; North Macedonia's 0 is recorded because the complete facet does not list it.

Source: data.europa.eu, S1, 2026-10-08 22:22 UTC · ·

The national portal has DCAT-related extensions installed (dcat, dcat_json_interface, mk_dcatap), but no North Macedonian records were present in the data.europa.eu snapshot. The snapshot does not show why.

Opportunities supported by the evidence

Actions on the catalogue that the evidence above supports. They are not a ranking or a criticism of any body.

  1. Complete licence metadata

    Evidence: 597 of 768 datasets (77.7 %) have no open-licence identifier

    See Licensing

  2. Offer more web-ready formats such as JSON

    Evidence: JSON in 7 of 1,605 resources; no GeoJSON label among the 19 raw labels

    See Formats

  3. Improve visibility on the EU aggregator

    Evidence: 0 records on data.europa.eu

    See EU discoverability

  4. Broaden publisher participation

    Evidence: 70 of 132 listed organisations have no public dataset; 18 of 72 local-government bodies publish

    See Publishers

  5. Classify the remaining datasets by theme

    Evidence: 115 datasets (15.0 %) have no theme

    See Themes

  6. Standardise format labels

    Evidence: 19 free-text labels; 45 resources have no format

    See Formats

  7. Review catalogue metadata regularly

    Evidence: 33.6 % of records had metadata modified in the last 12 months (UK 53.0 %, NL 81.7 % on the same query)

    See Metadata activity

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