Rakitnica () is a village in the municipality of Demir Hisar, North Macedonia.
Demographics in the 1467/1468 Ottoman defter, the village had 33 households and 1 bachelor. The onomastics consisted mostly of Christian Slavic anthroponyms, with around a fifth being Albanian. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rakitnica was inhabited by 255 Christian Bulgarians.Vasil Kanchov (1900). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia. p. 236.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 37 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 93.
Macedonians 37
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