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Demographics

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features of the population

Population

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of Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

, including population density

Population density

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, ethnicity

Ethnic group

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, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Vital statistics

	Average population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)
1920	1 296	35 246	26 678	8 568	27.2	20.6	6.6
1921	1 304	39 681	27 711	11 970	30.4	21.3	9.2
1922	1 310	39 346	25 088	14 258	30.0	19.2	10.9
1923	1 319	40 710	25 003	15 707	30.9	19.0	11.9
1924	1 328	40 215	23 297	16 918	30.3	17.5	12.7
1925	1 338	39 476	23 405	16 071	29.5	17.5	12.0
1926	1 347	38 267	23 307	14 960	28.4	17.3	11.1
1927	1 355	37 794	23 324	14 470	27.9	17.2	10.7
1928	1 364	37 359	22 355	15 004	27.4	16.4	11.0
1929	1 370	35 201	23 189	12 012	25.7	16.9	8.8
1930	1 379	38 346	20 846	17 500	27.8	15.1	12.7
1931	1 389	36 851	22 925	13 926	26.5	16.5	10.0
1932	1 398	36 832	23 849	12 983	26.3	17.1	9.3
1933	1 407	34 587	22 035	12 552	24.6	15.7	8.9
1934	1 418	33 373	19 585	13 788	23.5	13.8	9.7
1935	1 428	32 433	20 590	11 843	22.7	14.4	8.3
1936	1 436	32 630	20 479	12 151	22.7	14.3	8.5
1937	1 442	31 520	21 221	10 299	21.9	14.7	7.1
1938	1 444	31 199	20 392	10 807	21.6	14.1	7.5
1939	1 447	31 251	19 910	11 341	21.6	13.8	7.8
1940	1 450	31 536	21 001	10 535	21.7	14.5	7.3
1941	1 452	32 456	19 812	12 644	22.4	13.6	8.7
1942	1 449	30 681	22 061	8 620	21.2	15.2	5.9
1943	1 441	31 434	25 149	6 285	21.8	17.5	4.4
1944	1 430	27 379	26 609	770	19.1	18.6	0.5
1945	1 416	20 239	28 572	-8 333	14.3	20.2	-5.9
1946	1 415	28 599	18 145	10 454	20.2	12.8	7.4
1947	1 429	31 312	18 708	12 604	21.9	13.1	8.8
1948	1 443	31 538	17 884	13 654	21.9	12.4	9.5
1949	1 454	33 284	18 838	14 446	22.9	13.0	9.9
1950	1 467	35 992	17 335	18 657	24.5	11.8	12.7
1951	1 480	34 819	18 497	16 322	23.5	12.5	11.0
1952	1 494	34 165	15 617	18 548	22.9	10.5	12.4
1953	1 508	33 754	14 948	18 806	22.4	9.9	12.5
1954	1 521	31 828	14 897	16 931	20.9	9.8	11.1
1955	1 534	32 096	15 109	16 987	20.9	9.8	11.1
1956	1 546	31 466	16 351	15 115	20.4	10.6	9.8
1957	1 556	30 086	14 545	15 541	19.3	9.3	10.0
1958	1 567	28 284	14 082	14 202	18.0	9.0	9.1
1959	1 576	28 429	15 357	13 072	18.0	9.7	8.3
1960	1 580	27 825	15 145	12 680	17.6	9.6	8.0
1961	1 595	28 955	14 013	14 942	18.2	8.8	9.4
1962	1 605	29 035	15 866	13 169	18.1	9.9	8.2
1963	1 614	29 174	15 102	14 072	18.1	9.4	8.7
1964	1 631	29 184	16 729	12 455	17.9	10.3	7.6
1965	1 650	30 587	15 987	14 600	18.5	9.7	8.8
1966	1 670	30 941	15 248	15 693	18.5	9.1	9.4
1967	1 690	29 824	16 353	13 471	17.6	9.7	8.0
1968	1 704	28 580	17 446	11 134	16.8	10.2	6.5
1969	1 714	27 883	18 564	9 319	16.3	10.8	5.4
1970	1 727	27 432	17 353	10 078	15.9	10.0	5.8
1971	1 738	28 278	17 425	10 853	16.3	10.0	6.2
1972	1 752	28 713	18 153	10 560	16.4	10.4	6.0
1973	1 766	29 548	17 614	11 934	16.7	10.0	6.8
1974	1 782	28 625	17 206	11 419	16.1	9.7	6.4
1975	1 800	29 786	18 180	11 606	16.5	10.1	6.4
1976	1 819	30 339	18 157	12 182	16.7	10.0	6.7
1977	1 839	29 904	17 633	12 271	16.3	9.6	6.7
1978	1 863	30 354	18 357	11 997	16.3	9.9	6.4
1979	1 882	30 604	18 148	12 456	16.3	9.6	6.6
1980	1 901	29 902	18 820	11 082	15.7	9.9	5.8
1981	1 917	29 220	18 733	10 487	15.2	9.8	5.5
1982	1 925	28 894	19 647	9 247	15.0	10.2	4.8
1983	1 933	27 200	20 703	6 497	14.1	10.7	3.4
1984	1 943	26 274	20 214	6 060	13.5	10.4	3.1
1985	1 973	25 933	19 854	6 079	13.1	10.1	3.1
1986	1 981	25 570	19 499	6 071	12.9	9.8	3.1
1987	1 989	25 592	19 837	5 755	12.9	10.0	2.9
1988	2 000	25 209	19 126	6 083	12.6	9.6	3.0
1989	1 999	23 447	18 669	4 778	11.7	9.3	2.4
1990	1 998	22 368	18 555	3 813	11.2	9.3	1.9
1991	2 002	21 583	19 324	2 259	10.8	9.7	1.1
1992	1 996	19 982	19 333	649	10.0	9.7	0.3
1993	1 991	19 793	20 012	- 219	9.9	10.1	-0.1
1994	1 989	19 463	19 359	104	9.8	9.7	0.1
1995	1 988	18 980	18 968	12	9.5	9.5	0.0
1996	1 991	18 788	18 620	168	9.4	9.4	0.1
1997	1 987	18 165	18 928	- 763	9.1	9.5	-0.4
1998	1 983	17 856	19 039	-1 183	9.0	9.6	-0.6
1999	1 986	17 533	18 885	-1 352	8.8	9.5	-0.7
2000	1 990	18 180	18 588	- 408	9.1	9.3	-0.2
2001	1 992	17 477	18 508	-1 031	8.8	9.3	-0.5
2002	1 996	17 501	18 701	-1 200	8.8	9.4	-0.6
2003	1 996	17 321	19 451	-2 130	8.7	9.7	-1.1
2004	1 997	17 961	18 523	- 562	9.0	9.3	-0.3
2005	2 001	18 157	18 825	- 668	9.1	9.4	-0.3
2006	2 007	18 932	18 180	752	9.4	9.1	0.4
2007	2 018	19 823	18 584	1 239	9.8	9.2	0.6
2008	2 029	21 817	18 308	3 509	10.8	9.0	1.7
2009	2 040	21 601	18 727	2 874	10.6	9.2	1.4
2010	2 052	22 443	18 509	3 976	10.9	8.9	1.9

Ethnic groups

The majority of Slovenia

Slovenia

's population is Slovene (83.06%). Hungarians

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

and Italians

Italy

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have the status of indigenous minorities under the Constitution of Slovenia

Constitution of Slovenia

The Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia was adopted by the Slovenian National Assembly on December 23, 1991. The document is divided into ten chapters:# General Provisions# Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms# Economic and Social Relations...

, which guarantees them seats in the National Assembly. Most other minority groups, particularly those from other parts of the former Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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(except for one part of autochtonous community of Serbs and Croats), relocated after World War II

World War II

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for economic reasons.

**Population of Slovenia according to ethnic group 1948-2002¹**
Ethnic group	census 1948		census 1953		census 1961		census 1971		census 1981		census 1991		census 2002
Ethnic group	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Slovenes	1,350,149	97.0	1,415,448	96.5	1,522,248	95.6	1,578,963	94.0	1,668,623	90.8	1,689,657	88.3	1,631,363	83.1
Serbs Serbs The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...	7,048	0.5	11,225	0.8	13,609	0.9	20,209	1.2	41,695	2.3	47,401	2.5	38,964	2.0
Croats Croats Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...	16,069	1.2	17,978	1.2	31,429	2.0	41,556	2.5	53,882	2.9	52,876	2.8	35,642	1.8
Muslims	179	0.0	1,617	0.1	465	0.0	3,197	0.2	13,339	0.7	26,577	1.4	10,467	0.5
Bosniacs	179	0.0	1,617	0.1	465	0.0	3,197	0.2	13,339	0.7	26,577	1.4	21,542	1.1
Hungarians	10,579	0.8	11,019	0.8	10,498	0.7	8,943	0.5	8,777	0.5	8,000	0.4	6,243	0.3
Albanians Albanians Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...	216	0.0	169	0.0	282	0.0	1,266	0.1	1,933	0.1	3,534	0.2	6,186	0.3
Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...	366	0.0	640	0.0	1,009	0.1	1,572	0.1	3,227	0.2	4,371	0.2	3,972	0.2
Romani	46	0.0	1,663	0.1	158	0.0	951	0.1	1,393	0.1	2,259	0.1	3,246	0.2
Montenegrins	521	0.0	1,356	0.1	1,384	0.1	1,950	0.1	3,175	0.2	4,339	0.2	2,667	0.1
Italians	1,458	0.1	854	0.1	3,072	0.2	2,987	0.2	2,138	0.1	2,959	0.2	2,258	0.1
Others/undeclared	5.242	0.4	4,456	0.3	7,369	0.5	19,212	1.1	40,199	2.2	79,374	4.1	201,486	10.3
Total	1,391,873		1,466,425		1,591,523		1,679,051		1,838,381		1,913,355		1,964,036
¹ Source: http://www.stat.si/popis2002/en/rezultati/rezultati_red.asp?ter=SLO&st=7.

Religion

Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

57.8%, atheist

Atheism

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10.1%, Muslim

Islam

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2.4%, Orthodox Christian

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...

2.3%, Protestant

Protestantism

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0.9%, other and unknown 26.5% (2002
The majority of Slovenians (57%) are Roman Catholic, though the country also has a small number of Protestants, Orthodox Christians

Eastern Orthodox Church

, Muslim

Muslim

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s, and Jews.

Language

About 30 languages are spoken in Slovenia, yet there is only one official language (Slovene) and two recognized minority languages: Prekmurje

Prekmurje

Prekmurje is a geographically, linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined region settled by Slovenes and lying between the Mur River in Slovenia and the Rába Valley in the most western part of Hungary...

Hungarian and Istrian Italian in designated municipalities

Municipalities of Slovenia

Slovenia is divided into 211 municipalities , of which 11 have urban status.Slovene is an official language of all the municipalities. Hungarian is a second official language of 3 municipalities in Prekmurje: Dobrovnik , Hodoš and Lendava...

.
Slovene is a Slavic language, written in the Roman script. The second largest language is Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...

spoken mainly in the larger cities and industrial centres.

Slovene 87.7%, Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian language

8%, Hungarian

Hungarian language

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0.4%, Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

0.4%, Macedonian

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

0.2%, Romani

Romani language

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0.2%, Italian

Italian language

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0.2%, German

German language

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0.1%, other 0.1% (Russian

Russian language

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, Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

, Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

, Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

, Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

, French

French language

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, Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

, Arabic

Arabic language

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, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, Dutch

Dutch language

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, Vlach, Rusyn

Rusyn language

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, Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

, Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

, Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

or Armenian

Armenian language

The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...

), unknown 2.7% (2002)

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Age structure

0–14 years:
14% (male 145,016/female 137,012)

15–64 years:
70.6% (male 715,629/female 704,079)

65 years and over:
15.4% (male 118,298/female 191,036) (2005 est.)

0-14 years: 13.5% (male 139,880/female 131,826)

15-64 years: 69.9% (male 707,219/female 695,470)

65 years and over: 16.5% (male 129,662/female 201,635) (2010 est.)

Sex ratio

at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female

under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female

15–64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female

65 years and over:
0.57 male(s)/female

total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

total population:
74.86 years

male:
70.97 years

female:
78.97 years (2000 est.)

Literacy

definition:
NA

total population:
99%

male:
NA%

female:
NA%

External links

Demography and Social Statistics of Slovenia, SURS
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia is an independent Slovenian state institution in charge of official statistical surveying. It is responsible directly to the Prime Minister of Slovenia...
Results of the 2002 census, SURS

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