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Spatial population mobility is a demographic process that has a serious cause and consequential link with several factors including socio-economic development. Migration as an integral part of human life has been quite intense. Due to the significant differences in the level of development and living conditions between rural and urban areas in North Macedonia, the migration from rural to urban was most pronounced, especially in the past. The changes that took place in the second half of the last century in terms of spatial redistribution of the population have led to serious transformations in the rural area, and thus to an increased disparity in the domain of spatial, regional, economic, functional, demographic and sustainable development. This paper focuses on the relocation of the population from and to the Macedonian rural municipalities in the period 2005-2018. The permanent demographic discharge of the rural area has serious implications for the current and future balanced and planned development of the country. Unless appropriate measures are taken, rural areas affected by emigration will be found at a disadvantage, as the outflow of populations means an open road to stagnation and decline in the rural economy itself and at the same time, means jeopardizing the sustainable functional development of more rural areas. This has far-reaching economic, functional and demographic problems that will appear on a national level. In the paper are analyzed the scope and structure of migration from rural municipalities in order to identify which ones are most exposed at risk, the transformation that has taken place in the population number and to predict possible directions for their future development.

MIGRATION AS A FACTOR IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL MUNICIPALITIES - THE CASE OF NORTH MACEDONIA