Population (total, 1 January)

In 2023, Slovakia's population (total, 1 january) decreased by 0.1% compared to 2022, reaching 5,428,792.

Slovakia accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 447,695,350.

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 fallen by 0.3% (from 5,443,120 in 2018).

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