Editing Debar (section)

==Population==

In the late Ottoman period, Debre (Debar) was a town with 20,000 inhabitants, 420 shops, 9 mosques, 10 madrasas, 5 tekkes, 11 government run primary schools, 1 secondary school, 3 Christian primary schools and 1 church. In the early 19th century, when Debar rebelled against the Turkish Sultan, the French traveller, publicist, and scientist [[Ami Boue]] observed that Debar had 64 shops and 4,200 residents. <ref name="Gawrych3536"/> 

According to the statistics of the [[Bulgaria]]n ethnographer [[Vasil Kanchov]] in 1900 the population of Debar was 15,500 consisting of 10,500 [[Albanians]], 4,500 [[Bulgarians]], and 500 [[Romani people|Romani]].<ref>В. Кѫнчовъ, Македония. Етнография и статистика. (I изд. Бълг. Книжовно Д-во, София, 1900; II фототипно изд. "Проф. М. Дринов", София, 1996),  {{ISBN|954430424X}}, стр. 210</ref>

According to the last census data from 2002, the city of Debar has a population of 14,561, made up of
*10,768 (74.0%) [[Albanians in North Macedonia|Albanians]],
* 1,415 (9.7%) [[Turks in North Macedonia|Turks]],
* 1,079 (7.2%) [[Romani people in North Macedonia|Roma]],
* 1,054 (7.2%) [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]], and
*245 (1.7%) others.<ref name = Statisticaloffice>Macedonian Census (2002), [http://www.stat.gov.mk/publikacii/knigaX.pdf  ''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion''], The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 89.</ref>

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'''City of Debar population according to ethnic group 1948-2021<ref name="Censuses of population 1948 - 2002">[http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp Censuses of population 1948 - 2002] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014071758/http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp |date=14 October 2013 }}</ref>'''
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | census 1948
! colspan="2" | census 1953
! colspan="2" | census 1961
! colspan="2" | census 1971
! colspan="2" | census 1981
! colspan="2" | census 1994
! colspan="2" | census 2002
! colspan="2" |census 2021
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
!Number
! %
|-
| [[Albanians in North Macedonia|Albanians]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 4,122
| align="right" | 74.7
| align="right" | 4,507
| align="right" | 71.3
| align="right" | 6,681
| align="right" | 75.7
| align="right" | 8,625
| align="right" | 70.7
| align="right" | 9,400
| align="right" | 70.5
| align="right" | 10,768
| align="right" | 74.0
| align="right" |8,194
| align="right" |69.8
|-
| [[Turks in North Macedonia|Turks]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 53
| align="right" | 1.0
| align="right" | 195
| align="right" | 3.1
| align="right" | 367
| align="right" | 4.2
| align="right" | 573
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 1,175
| align="right" | 8.8
| align="right" | 1,415
| align="right" | 9.7
| align="right" |911
| align="right" |7.8
|-
| [[Romani people in North Macedonia|Roma]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 83
| align="right" | 1.5
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 1,030
| align="right" | 8.5
| align="right" | 1,103
| align="right" | 8.3
| align="right" | 1,079
| align="right" | 7.4
| align="right" |1,140
| align="right" |9.7
|-
| [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 1,110
| align="right" | 20.1
| align="right" | 1,009
| align="right" | 16.0
| align="right" | 1,276
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 1,106
| align="right" | 9.1
| align="right" | 1,431
| align="right" | 10.7
| align="right" | 1,054
| align="right" | 7.3
| align="right" |419
| align="right" |3.6
|-
| [[Vlachs in the Republic of Macedonia|Vlachs]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" |2
| align="right" |0.0
|-
| [[Serbs in North Macedonia|Serbs]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 87
| align="right" | 1.6
| align="right" | 57
| align="right" | 0.9
| align="right" | 105
| align="right" | 1.2
| align="right" | 37
| align="right" | 0.3
| align="right" | 34
| align="right" | 0.3
| align="right" | 22
| align="right" | 0.2
| align="right" |4
| align="right" |0.0
|-
| [[Bosniaks in North Macedonia|Bosniaks]]
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 0
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0.0
| align="right" |5
| align="right" |0.0
|-
| Others
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | ..
| align="right" | 63
| align="right" | 1.2
| align="right" | 555
| align="right" | 8.8
| align="right" | 394
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 830
| align="right" | 6.8
| align="right" | 196
| align="right" | 1.5
| align="right" | 219
| align="right" | 1.5
| align="right" | 146
| align="right" | 1.2
|-
| Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources
| colspan="14" |
| align="right" | 914
| align="right" | 7.8
|-
|-bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! align="left" | Total
! colspan="2" | 4,698
! colspan="2" | 5,520
! colspan="2" | 6,323
! colspan="2" | 8,823
! colspan="2" | 12,201
! colspan="2" | 13,340
! colspan="2" | 14,561
! colspan="2" |11,735
|-
| colspan="17" | <small></small>
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