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Geography
Area : 49,035 km²
Borders : 1.474 km: Austria (91 km), Czech Republic (197 km), Hungary (676 km), Poland (420 km), Ukraine (90 km)
Capital : Bratislava
Official language : Slovak
Source : The CIA World Factbook
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Population
Population : 5,425,319 inhabitants (2023 est.)
Crude natural change rate : -1,2‰ (est. 2023)
Population repartition: 16.1% under 15 years old, 17.9% over 65 years old (2023)
Foreign residents: 1% EU nationals, 0.3% non-EU nationals (2019)
Crude net migration rate: -0.2‰ (2023 est.)
First time asylum applicants: 410 (2023)
Life expectancy: men 74.7 years, women 81.5 years (2023)
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.)
Ethnic groups: Slovak 80.7%, Hungarian 8.5%, Roma 2%, other and unspecied 8.8% (est. 2011)
Source : Eurostat
Economy
Currency: Euro
GDP: € 122,812.8 million (2023)
GDP per capita (PPS): € 16,490 (2023)
GDP growth : 1.6% (2023)
Inflation: 2.6% (May 2024)
Public debt: 56% (Q4 2023)
Unemployment: 5.6% (April 2024)
Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 62% of GDP (2022)
Performance sectors: automobile industry, steel industry, chemistry
Budget balance: -10.1% of GDP (Q4 2023)
Source : Eurostat, BNP Paribas
Political system
Republic, parliamentary democracy (Constitution of 1st January 1993, revised in 1999 to allow for direct universal election of the president):
Head of State: Peter Pellegrini, elected on 6th April 2024
Prime Minister: Robert Fico (SMERSD) since 23rd October 2023. He leads a government coalition with the centreleft HLAS and nationalist SNS parties.
Unicameral parliamentary system: The National Council (Národná rada) is made up of 150 seats. Representatives are elected for four years by proportional representation with a 5% vote threshold.
Political representation
Parliament composition (in February 2023):
- 42 seats SMER-SD (Direction Social Democracy)
- 32 seats PS (Progressive Slovakia)
- 27 seats Voice (Hlas)
- 16 seats OL'aNO (Party of Ordinary People and Independants)
- 12 seats KDH (Christian Democratic Movement)
- 11 seats SaS (Freedom and Solidarity)
- 10 seats SNS (National Party)
Women's representations
- In the government: 3/16
- In the Národná rada: 32/150
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