Population — national citizens

In 2012, Slovakia's population decreased by 7.2% compared to 2011, reaching 4,980,227.

Slovakia ranks 18th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 7.1% (from 5,361,507 in 2007).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.