Population (total, 1 January)

In 2017, Slovakia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.2% compared to 2016, reaching 5,435,343.

Slovakia accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 444,670,605.

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 0.6% (from 5,404,322 in 2012).

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