Slovakia

Facts & Figures

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  • President: Zuzana Caputova (2019)

    Prime Minister: Eduard Heger (2021)

    Land area: 18,842 sq mi (48,800 sq km); total area: 18,859 sq mi (48,845 sq km)

    Population (2022 est.): 5,431,252 (growth rate: -0.1%); birth rate: 8.94/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.82/1000; life expectancy: 78.31

    Capital and largest city (2022 est.): Bratislava, 439,000

    Other large city: Kosice, 240,688

    Monetary unit: Koruna

    National name: Slovenska Republika

    Current government officials

    Languages: Slovak (official) 81.8%, Hungarian 8.5%, Roma 1.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified 5.7% (2021 est.)

    Ethnicity/race: Slovak 83.8%, Hungarian 7.8%, Romani 1.2%, other 1.8% (includes Czech, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish), unspecified 5.4% (2021 est.)

    Religions: Roman Catholic 55.8%, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession 5.3%, Greek Catholic 4%, Reformed Christian 1.6%, other 3%, none 23.8%, unspecified 6.5% (2021 est.)

    Literacy rate: 99.6% (2004 est.)

    Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2020 est.): $165.57 billion; per capita $30,300. Real growth rate: 2.4%. Inflation: 2.6%. Unemployment: 19.4% (2020 est.). Arable land: 28.9%. Agriculture: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, cattle, poultry; forest products. Labor force: 2.511 million (2020 est.); agriculture 3.9%, industry 22.7%, services 73.4% (2015). Industries: metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity, gas, coke, oil, nuclear fuel; chemicals, synthetic fibers; machinery; paper and printing; earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and optical apparatus; rubber products. Natural resources: brown coal and lignite; small amounts of iron ore, copper and manganese ore; salt; arable land. Exports: $89.92 billion (2020 est.): vehicles 21%, machinery and electrical equipment 35.9%, base metals 11.3%, chemicals and minerals 8.1%, plastics 4.9% (2009).Major trading partners (exports): Germany 22%, Czechia 11%, Poland 7%, France 7%, Hungary 6%, Austria 5%, United Kingdom 5% (2019). Imports: $87.95 billion (2020 est.): machinery and transport equipment 31%, mineral products 13%, vehicles 12%, base metals 9%, chemicals 8%, plastics 6% (2009). Major trading partners: Germany 18%, Czechia 18%, Poland 8%, Hungary 7%, Russia 5% (2019). 

    Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 648,462 (2020); mobile cellular: 7,399,530 (2019). Radio broadcast stations: AM 15, FM 78, shortwave 2 (2008); state-owned public broadcaster, Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS), operates 2 national TV stations and multiple national and regional radio networks; roughly 50 privately owned TV stations operating nationally, regionally, and locally; about 40% of households are connected to multi-channel cable or satellite TV; 32 privately owned radio stations. Radios: 3.12 million (1997). Television broadcast stations: 38 (plus 864 repeaters) (1995). Televisions: 2.62 million (2008). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1.384 million (2012). Internet users: 4,917,528 (2022).

    Transportation: Railways: total: 3,580 km (2016). Highways: total: 56,926 km; paved: 38,238 km (including 417 km of expressways); unpaved: 5,678 km (2016). Waterways: 172 km on the Danube. Ports and harbors: Bratislava, Komarno. Airports: 35 (2021).

    International disputes: bilateral government, legal, technical and economic working group negotiations continued in 2006 between Slovakia and Hungary over Hungary's completion of its portion of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along the Danube; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Slovakia has implemented the strict Schengen border rules.

    Major sources and definitions

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