Countries/Western Balkans

North Macedonia

Western Balkans · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy desk-coded

56.5composite, 0–100

26 / 45rank · 2 of 6 in Western Balkans

+2.2change since 2015, time-varying indicators

North MacedoniaWestern Balkans average

Dimensions

Dimension	Score	Rank /45	WB6	EU-27	Indicators
Political	67.2	21	53.2	71.5	7 / 8
Economic	48.8	37	51.5	62.8	13 / 20
Legal	48.7	28	66.5	63.8	7 / 12
Institutional	43.1	43	45.3	61.9	10 / 16
Financial	74.9	14	51.7	71.0	3 / 7
Composite	56.5	26	53.6	66.2	40 / 63

Indicators = scored now / in the full SEI matrix. Ties share a rank.

Composite, 2015–2024

North MacedoniaWestern Balkans average

Same goalposts every year. Legal and financial scores are held at their single readings, so change comes from governance, social and labour statistics, firm demography and early-stage entrepreneurship.

North Macedonia was the SEI pilot. The 2020 pilot, which included the survey of social enterprises, scored 45.3; the provisional Diamond scores 56.5. Most of the gap is financial (39.0 in the pilot against 74.9 now): the provisional score records whether funding lines exist, while the pilot also asked enterprises whether they could reach them.

Social-enterprise policy and legal framework, end-2025

SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 National Strategy for Development of Social Enterprises 2021-2027 (adopted 2021) · source	3/3
Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (and successor social-policy ministry); 2021 Working Group on SE policy and legislation	1/2
Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 Law on Public Procurement (in force 1 April 2019) - reserved contracts · source	1/2
Official SE definition 3.1 National Strategy for Development of Social Enterprises 2021-2027	1/1
Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Draft Law on Social Enterprises (in preparation since 2021) — draft only · source	0/2
SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 National Center for Support of Social Enterprises (Skopje, 2021) and centres/local points in the eight planning regions · source	2/2
EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 EU IPA project 'Support to Social Enterprises' (Eptisa consortium; National Center opened Nov 2021) · source	2/2
Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 ad hoc Fund for Innovation and Technology Development call for SE; otherwise donor/IPA funding	1/2

Policy composite 68.8 of 100 (mean of the eight codes). Most advanced policy framework in the region (dedicated SE Strategy 2021-2027 with official definition, EU-built support network), but no SE law in force at end-2025; draft pending.

SEI 2021 pilot note

The 2021 note on North Macedonia, with its country facts, charts and sources, is kept in the archive as published. Its figures date from 2020–21 and are not updated.

Cite this profile

Social Entrepreneurship Observatory & SENIC. (2026). North Macedonia: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/north-macedonia/