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features of the

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Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

, including

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, education level, health of the populace, economic status,

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and other aspects of the population. The demographic statistics are from the Statistical Office of the SR, unless otherwise indicated.

Population

Total population: (as of ). Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2021. *One birth every 10 minutes *One death every 9 minutes *One net migrant every 480 minutes *Net gain of one person every 1440 minutes

Population overtime

Population growth rate

:-0.08% (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 202nd

Fertility

The

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is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources:

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. 1.45 children born/woman (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 211th

Mother's mean age at first birth

:27.2 years (2019 est.)

Life expectancy

:total population: 78.07 years :male: 74.56 years :female: 81.82 years (2021 est.)

Age structure

:''0-14 years:'' 15.13% (male 423,180 /female 400,128) :''15-24 years:'' 10.06% (male 280,284 /female 266,838) :''25-54 years:'' 44.61% (male 1,228,462 /female 1,198,747) :''55-64 years:'' 13.15% (male 342,142 /female 373,452) :''65 years and over:'' 17.05% (male 366,267 /female 561,120) (2020 est.)

Median age

:total: 41.8 years. Country comparison to the world: 41st :male: 40.1 years :female: 43.6 years (2020 est.)

Vital statistics

Current vital statistics

Languages

Slovak (official) 81.77%, Hungarian 8.48%, Roma 1.84%,

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0.71%, other or unspecified 7.2% (2021 census)

Employment and income

Unemployment, youth ages 15–24

:Total: 19.4%. Country comparison to the world: 81st :Male: 18.3% :Female: 21.2% (2020 est.)

Ethnic groups

Mother tongue ratio in Slovakia districts 2021

The majority of the 5.4 million inhabitants of

are Slovak (83.82%).

Hungarians Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Urali ...

are the largest ethnic minority (7.75%) and are concentrated in the southern and eastern regions of Slovakia. Other ethnic groups include

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(1.23%),

Czechs The Czechs ( cs, Češi, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, c ...

Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, G ...

Rusyns Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group from the Carpathian Rus', Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn language, Rusyn, an East Slavic languages, East Slavi ...

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Germans , native_name_lang = de , region1 = , pop1 = 72,650,269 , region2 = , pop2 = 534,000 , region3 = , pop3 = 157,000 3,322,405 , region4 = , pop4 = ...

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and

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(about 2,300 remain of the estimated pre-

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population of 120,000). While both international organizations (the United Nations and the World Bank) and the official Slovak statistics office offer population figures for ethnic groups, these figures seldom come close to agreement. Figures for the Roma population (for a variety of reasons) vary between 1% and 10% of the population. In the most recent survey carried out by the Slovak Government's Roma Plenipotentiary, the figure for the percentage of Roma was arrived at through interview with municipality representatives and mayors, according to how many Roma they think live in their jurisdictions. The figure arrived at by this means was in the region of 300,000 (about 5.6%). Note that in the case of the 5.6%, however, the above percentages of Hungarians and Slovaks are lower accordingly. The official state language is Slovak, and Hungarian is widely spoken in the southern regions. Despite its modern

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an economy and society, Slovakia has a significant rural element. About 45% of Slovaks live in villages with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, and 14% in villages with fewer than 1,000.

Religion

The Slovak constitution guarantees

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. The majority of Slovak citizens (55,76%) practice

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; the second-largest group consider themselves atheists (23.79%). About 5.27% are

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, 4% are

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, and 0.93% are

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and

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Church 1.56% (2021 census).

References

External links

* * * (in Czech) summary of villages in Hungary in 1864 - 1865, PETROV, Alexej Leonidovich
''Sborník Fr. Pestyho Helység névtara-Seznam osad v Uhrách z r. 1864-65, : jako pramen historicko-demografických údajů o slovenských a karpatoruských osadách.''
Praha : Česká akademie věd a umění, 1927. 174 s. - available online at

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