Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 1998, Slovakia's population change decreased by 38.5% compared to 1997, reaching 0.8.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 0.2.

Slovakia ranks 10th out of 14 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 79.5% (from 3.9 in 1993).

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