Population — national citizens

In 2024, Slovakia's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2023, reaching 5,358,701.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 0.3% (from 5,374,305 in 2019).

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