Population (total, 1 January)

In 2009, Slovakia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.2% compared to 2008, reaching 5,412,254.

Slovakia ranks 15th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.6% (from 5,380,053 in 2004).

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