First residence permits — family

In 2021, Slovakia's first residence permits increased by 27.8% compared to 2020, reaching 3,707.

Slovakia accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 816,287.

Slovakia ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 43.6% (from 2,582 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.