Slovakia

EuropeCapital city: BratislavaCapital metro: BratislavaPrime Minister: Robert FicoPresident: Peter Pellegrini
2026 population
5.4M
Rank #124 globally
Area
49k km² (19k sq mi)
Metros tracked
23
55% of population in metros
Composite score
10.4
Rank #97 globally

population: National quarterly estimate (31 Mar 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 23 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography23 metros

Slovakia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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23 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 23 tracked metros
23 metros
🗂️ Regions

8 entries listed under Slovakia. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

8 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Slovak
Currency
Euro (€)
Government
Parliamentary republic
Legislature
National Council of the Slovak Republic
Demonym
Slovak
Time zones
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+421
Internet TLD
.sk
ISO 3166
SK
Established
1993
Highest point
Gerlachovský štít (2,655 m (8,711 ft))
National anthem
Nad Tatrou sa blýska

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#43 / 191
0.880
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#59 / 193
$154.5B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#44 / 193
$28.5k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#46 / 190
$49.3k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#44 / 192
$26.4k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#49 / 194
78.4 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
41.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#128 / 194
53%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#78 / 193
113/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#85 / 193
5.9%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#63 / 175
0.73
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#1 / 166
23.8
World Bank · 2023
Internet users
#55 / 193
90%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#122 / 185
4.0%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#142 / 192
5.3 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#123 / 186
19%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations5 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History18 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Peter Pellegrini✦ Current

2024Present

President

Tenure: 2024-presentHlas-SD

Robert Fico✦ Current

2023Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2023-present (4th term)Smer-SD

Ľudovít Ódor

20232023

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2023 (technocratic caretaker)Independent

Eduard Heger

20212023

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2021-2023OĽaNO

Igor Matovič

20202021

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2020-2021OĽaNO

Zuzana Čaputová

20192024

President

Tenure: 2019-2024Progressive Slovakia

Peter Pellegrini

20182020

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2018-2020 (as PM)Smer-SD

Andrej Kiska

20142019

President

Tenure: 2014-2019Independent

Robert Fico

20122018

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2012-2018 (2nd-3rd term)Smer-SD

Iveta Radičová

20102012

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2010-2012SDKÚ-DS

Robert Fico

20062010

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2006-2010 (1st term)Smer-SD

Ivan Gašparovič

20042014

President

Tenure: 2004-2014HZD / independent
Show all 18 leaders

Rudolf Schuster

19992004

President

Tenure: 1999-2004SOP

Mikuláš Dzurinda

19982006

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1998-2006SDKÚ

Vladimír Mečiar

19941998

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1994-1998 (2nd term)HZDS

Jozef Moravčík

19941994

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1994DEÚS

Michal Kováč

19931998

President

Tenure: 1993-1998HZDS (then independent)

Vladimír Mečiar

19931994

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1993-1994 (1st term as PM of independent Slovakia)HZDS
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#91 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Slovakia · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
5.5m
#119 in the world
Since 1800
2.58×
from 2.1m
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.07%
0.22% in 1800
1.4m2.8m4.1m5.5m18001850190019502000
Slovakia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Slovakia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
2023
5.5m; already passed
2050
4.9m
95% band 4.6m to 5.3m
2100
3.4m
95% band 2.3m to 4.6m
2100 against 2025
0.63×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 2020
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
1.4m2.9m4.3m5.8m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
100k born · 40k died · -6k net migration
TFR 3.61 · life expectancy 60.8 · median age 26.0
1960
89k born · 32k died · +4k net migration
TFR 3.02 · life expectancy 70.3 · median age 26.7
1970
80k born · 43k died · -5k net migration
TFR 2.42 · life expectancy 69.7 · median age 27.3
1980
95k born · 51k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.32 · life expectancy 70.4 · median age 27.9
1990
79k born · 55k died · -9k net migration
TFR 2.08 · life expectancy 70.8 · median age 30.3
2000
55k born · 53k died · -831 net migration
TFR 1.29 · life expectancy 73.1 · median age 33.0
2010
61k born · 53k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.43 · life expectancy 75.5 · median age 36.1
2020
57k born · 60k died · +4k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 76.9 · median age 40.2
Show all 16 decades
2030
44k born · 60k died · -372 net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 79.5 · median age 44.4
2040
43k born · 67k died · -400 net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 81.1 · median age 48.0
2050
42k born · 69k died · -339 net migration
TFR 1.60 · life expectancy 82.6 · median age 49.3
2060
36k born · 69k died · -283 net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 84.0 · median age 49.3
2070
33k born · 70k died · -233 net migration
TFR 1.62 · life expectancy 85.3 · median age 50.4
2080
32k born · 63k died · -263 net migration
TFR 1.62 · life expectancy 86.5 · median age 50.5
2090
29k born · 52k died · -216 net migration
TFR 1.63 · life expectancy 87.7 · median age 50.3
2100
26k born · 48k died · -220 net migration
TFR 1.63 · life expectancy 88.8 · median age 51.4

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

💰 Billionaires2 · $4.8B combined · click to expand
Finance & InvestmentsInvestments
Real EstateReal estate

Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.

🏆 National Teams

Slovakia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.