Population — national citizens

In 2022, Slovakia's population decreased by 0.1% compared to 2021, reaching 5,371,646.

Slovakia accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

Slovakia ranks 16th 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 5,365,648 in 2017).

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