Population — national citizens

In 2023, Slovakia's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2022, reaching 5,364,540.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 fallen by 0.1% (from 5,370,237 in 2018).

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