Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 1999, Slovakia's population change decreased by 12.5% compared to 1998, reaching 0.7.

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

Slovakia ranks 11th out of 12 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 75.0% (from 2.8 in 1994).

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