Population (total, 1 January)

In 2014, Slovakia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.1% compared to 2013, reaching 5,415,949.

Slovakia accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 442,268,078.

Slovakia ranks 18th 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 0.1% (from 5,412,254 in 2009).

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