Population — national citizens

In 2021, Slovakia's population decreased by 0.0% compared to 2020, reaching 5,377,706.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 0.3% (from 5,360,412 in 2016).

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