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Slovenia

2,130,986

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+3.59K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+7.1%from 1.99M
Life expectancy82.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.52births per woman · 2024
Urban population56.0%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Slovenia is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+22.2%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 rate7.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-2.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+2.71Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Slovenia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.98M in 2050—6.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20242.12M
  2. 20501.98M
  3. 21001.63M
Median age in 205047.9years
Births in 205016.96Kduring the year
Deaths in 205027.08Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19601.58M
  2. 19701.72M
  3. 19801.9M
  4. 19902M
  5. 20001.99M
  6. 20102.05M
  7. 20202.1M
  8. 20252.13M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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