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Slovak Republic

5,413,813

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-8.26K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+0.5%from 5.39M
Life expectancy78.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.46births per woman · 2024
Urban population53.2%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Slovak Republic is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+19.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-1.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-31.38Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Slovak Republic look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 4.94M in 2050—10.4% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.51M
  2. 20504.94M
  3. 21003.43M
Median age in 205049.3years
Births in 205042.42Kduring the year
Deaths in 205069.01Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19604.07M
  2. 19704.54M
  3. 19804.98M
  4. 19905.3M
  5. 20005.39M
  6. 20105.39M
  7. 20205.46M
  8. 20255.41M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/16/2026

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