Population — national citizens

In 2025, Slovakia's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2024, reaching 5,350,766.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Slovakia ranks 15th 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 0.5% (from 5,378,937 in 2020).

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