Slovenia

EuropeCapital city: LjubljanaCapital metro: LjubljanaPresident: Nataša Pirc MusarPrime Minister: Janez Janša
2026 population
2.1M
Rank #150 globally
Area
20k km² (8k sq mi)
Metros tracked
17
59% of population in metros
Composite score
10.3
Rank #99 globally

population: Natl quarterly est (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 17 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography17 metros

Slovenia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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17 polygons

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

🏙️ 17 tracked metros
17 metros
🗂️ Regions

12 entries listed under Slovenia. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

12 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Slovene
Currency
Euro (€)
Government
Democratic republic
Legislature
Slovenian Parliament
Demonym
Slovene
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+386
Internet TLD
.si
ISO 3166
SI
Established
1991
Highest point
Triglav (2,864 m (9,396 ft))
National anthem
Zdravljica

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#20 / 191
0.931
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#85 / 193
$79.6B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#32 / 193
$37.4k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#34 / 190
$59.2k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#35 / 192
$35.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#26 / 194
82.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
43.9 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#119 / 194
56%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#83 / 193
105/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#40 / 193
14.9%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#33 / 175
0.90
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#3 / 166
24.7
World Bank · 2023
Internet users
#53 / 193
91%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#73 / 185
2.4%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#150 / 192
6.0 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#82 / 186
40%
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 & Organisations4 full memberships

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History19 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.

Independence era

Janez Janša✦ Current

2026Present

Prime Minister

SDS

Nataša Pirc Musar✦ Current

2022Present

President

Independent

Robert Golob

20222026

Prime Minister

Freedom Movement (GS)

Janez Janša

20202022

Prime Minister

SDS

Marjan Šarec

20182020

Prime Minister

LMŠ

Miro Cerar

20142018

Prime Minister

SMC

Alenka Bratušek

20132014

Prime Minister

PS

Borut Pahor

20122022

President

SD / Independent

Janez Janša

20122013

Prime Minister

SDS

Borut Pahor

20082012

Prime Minister

SD

Danilo Türk

20072012

President

Independent

Janez Janša

20042008

Prime Minister

SDS
Show all 19 leaders

Janez Drnovšek

20022007

President

LDS

Anton Rop

20022004

Prime Minister

LDS

Janez Drnovšek

20002002

Prime Minister

LDS

Andrej Bajuk

20002000

Prime Minister

SLS+SKD / NSi

Janez Drnovšek

19922000

Prime Minister

LDS

Milan Kučan

19912002

President

Independent (ex-ZKS)

Lojze Peterle

19901992

Prime Minister

SKD
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#92 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Slovenia · 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
2.1m
#149 in the world
Since 1800
4.51×
from 470k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.03%
0.05% in 1800
530k1.1m1.6m2.1m18001850190019502000
Slovenia · 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 Slovenia: 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 on the median
2024
2.1m on the UN median
2050
2.0m
95% band 1.8m to 2.2m
2100
1.6m
95% band 1.2m to 2.2m
2100 against 2025
0.77×
median falling from 2025
Deaths outnumber births
since 2017
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
594k1.2m1.8m2.4m1950197520002025205020752100

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
34k born · 17k died · -423 net migration
TFR 2.99 · life expectancy 61.8 · median age 26.0
1960
29k born · 15k died · -929 net migration
TFR 2.19 · life expectancy 68.5 · median age 28.0
1970
28k born · 17k died · +260 net migration
TFR 2.11 · life expectancy 69.0 · median age 29.8
1980
32k born · 18k died · +3k net migration
TFR 2.10 · life expectancy 71.8 · median age 30.4
1990
22k born · 19k died · +618 net migration
TFR 1.46 · life expectancy 73.5 · median age 33.2
2000
18k born · 19k died · +3k net migration
TFR 1.25 · life expectancy 75.8 · median age 37.0
2010
22k born · 19k died · -410 net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 79.3 · median age 40.5
2020
19k born · 24k died · +29k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 80.4 · median age 43.0
Show all 16 decades
2030
16k born · 23k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 82.7 · median age 46.4
2040
18k born · 26k died · +3k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 84.1 · median age 48.8
2050
17k born · 27k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.60 · life expectancy 85.4 · median age 47.9
2060
15k born · 27k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 86.6 · median age 47.8
2070
15k born · 26k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 87.8 · median age 48.3
2080
15k born · 23k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.62 · life expectancy 88.9 · median age 47.6
2090
14k born · 20k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.62 · life expectancy 90.0 · median age 48.0
2100
13k born · 19k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.63 · life expectancy 91.1 · median age 49.4

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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.

🏆 National Teams

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