World population/Slovakia
Europe
Population of Slovakia
5,451,343
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#124
world rank
0.07%
of world population
-0.18%
yearly change
-9,902
people this year
47,925
births a year
56,997
deaths a year
How the figure for Slovakia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Slovakia at 5,451,343 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,441,441 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Slovakia at number 124 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.07 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 47,925 births and 56,997 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
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