Population — national citizens

In 2017, Slovakia's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2016, reaching 5,365,648.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

Slovakia ranks 16th 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 7.7% (from 4,980,227 in 2012).

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