Population (total, 1 January)

In 2019, Slovakia's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.1% compared to 2018, reaching 5,450,421.

Slovakia accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 446,149,924.

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 5,415,949 in 2014).

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