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People (45)
- 2,135,107 people live in Slovenia – 109,241 more than in 2008.
- Most popular baby names in 2025: Mark (198) and Hana (182).
- The most common surname is Novak, with 10,510 people. Second is Horvat.
- The most common first name in Slovenia is Marija (41,402 people, 2026).
- A newborn girl can expect to live 85.1 years, a boy 79.7 – a gap of 5.4 years.
- Women live longest in Osrednjeslovenska (85.5 years) and least long in Posavska (83.3).
- 16,961 babies were born in 2025. The most since 1954 was 32,096 in 1955.
- Mothers are on average 29.8 at the birth of their first child – in 1954 they were 24.8.
- The biggest move between regions is from Osrednjeslovenska to Gorenjska: 2,300 people in 2025.
- Most babies are born on September 20 (62.3 a day on average), fewest on November 1 (37.6); 2000–2025.
- In 2026, 94% of households had internet access, up from 58% in 2007.
- In 1960, 35.1 of every 1,000 babies died before their first birthday; in 2025, 2.1.
- People in Slovenia rate their life satisfaction at 7.6 out of 10 on average (2025).
- 1,306,529 people lived in Slovenia in 1922, and 2,130,850 in 2025.
- The oldest population lives in Pomurska (average age 47.4), the youngest in Osrednjeslovenska (42.9); 2026.
- There are now more people over 65 than children under 15: 22.5% against 14.2% (2026). In 2000 it was 14.0% against 15.9%.
- At today's death rates, 2.6% of newborn girls and 1.7% of boys would live to see their 100th birthday (2025).
- More than half of babies are born to unmarried parents: 55.1% in 2025, compared with 40.2% in 2002.
- For every 100 girls, 107.0 boys were born in 2025.
- In 2025, 10.5% of babies weighed 4 kilograms or more at birth, and 20 weighed over 5 kilograms.
- 1,326 people in Slovenia were born on 29 February – they get a real birthday only every four years (2026).
- In 2025, most babies were born in September (50.9 a day on average) and the fewest in April (42.9).
- In 2016–2025, the most people died in January (69.2 deaths a day on average) and the fewest in June (51.9).
- In 2025, most brides were aged 25–29; in 1988, most were 20–24.
- In 2025, 20% of divorces ended marriages that had lasted 25 years or more; in 2003, 18%.
- 34% of households are people living alone (2021); in 2011, 33%.
- The most common citizenship among immigrants in 2025: Bosnia and Herzegovina – 8,024 of 30,854 (26%).
- In 2025, more Slovenian citizens moved abroad (4,928) than came back (3,950).
- Where Slovenian citizens most often emigrate to: Austria – 20% of all emigrants in 2025.
- Foreigners most often move to Slovenia for work (58% in 2024), followed by family reunification (25%).
- 76% of foreign citizens in Slovenia come from former Yugoslav countries and 10% from the EU; the EU share among foreigners is highest in Pomurska (25%); 2026.
- 231,074 foreign citizens live in Slovenia, 10.8% of the population (Q3 2026); in 2008 they were 2.9%.
- In 2025, more people died in Slovenia than were born (natural change −4,262), but migration from abroad made up for it (net migration +8,519).
- In Zasavska, only 47% of employed people work in their home region – the rest commute elsewhere; in Osrednjeslovenska, 89% do (2025).
- Osrednjeslovenska has 246 people per km², Primorsko-notranjska only 37 – a 6.7-fold difference (2026).
- 85% of preschool-age children go to kindergarten (2025); in 2004, 61%.
- Among 30- to 34-year-olds, 55% of women and 30% of men have a tertiary education (2025).
- 19,364 students graduated from higher education in 2025 – 60% of them women.
- New doctors of science are on average 36.9 years old when they graduate; first-cycle university graduates 24.0 (2025).
- 74% of adults in Slovenia speak English and 41% German (2022).
- 74% of people aged 65–74 use the internet (2026); in 2015, 27%.
- 69% of people aged 16–74 shopped online in the past year (2026); in 2007, just 16%.
- In 2025, the average person spent 55.1 minutes a day travelling: 24.9 for leisure and 14.5 commuting to work.
- An average theatre or opera ticket cost EUR 13.35 in 2025, and EUR 8.48 in 2016.
- Museum and gallery exhibitions counted 2,977,498 visits in 2025 – 31% by foreigners and 24% by children and young people.
Economy & work (40)
- The highest average gross wage is in Osrednjeslovenska (€2,782), the lowest in Primorsko-notranjska (€2,206).
- GDP per person in Osrednjeslovenska is 2.8 times that of Zasavska (2024).
- Prices rose by 2.7% on average in 2025. The biggest rise was in the group “Health” (5.9%).
- The unemployment rate was 3.6% in September 2026; among young people (15–24) it was 15.8%.
- In 2025, 11.1% of new cars were electric (6,430); in 2015 just 123.
- Tourists spent 17,843,311 nights in Slovenia in 2025 – 75% of them foreign visitors.
- Slovenian airports handled 1,591,825 passengers in 2025; the record was 1,813,440 in 2018.
- In 2025, a kilo of bread cost 24 minutes of work; in 1990, 21 minutes.
- Slovenia's biggest export market is Switzerland: 43% of all goods exports (2025).
- Slovenian ports handled 1,248,970 containers (TEU) in 2025, up from 333,891 in 2009.
- 38% of companies with at least 10 employees used artificial intelligence in 2026, up from 12% in 2021.
- At the end of 2025, 24,548 electric cars were registered in Slovenia; at the end of 2014, just 133.
- Slovenia's GDP was €71.2 billion in 2025 (current prices) – €33,380 per person.
- Since 1996, Slovenia's worst year was 2009, when GDP shrank by 7.6% in real terms; the best was 2021, with growth of 8.4%.
- Osrednjeslovenska produces 40% of Slovenia's GDP but is home to only 27% of its people (2024).
- The average gross monthly wage was €2,519 in 2025, while half of employees earned less than €2,139 gross (the median).
- In 2025, workers aged 65 or more earned the highest average gross wage (€3,028), those aged 15–24 the lowest (€1,743).
- The best-paid occupational group is “Chief executives, senior officials and legislators” (€6,429 average gross a month), the lowest-paid “Cleaners and helpers” (€1,505; 2025).
- The average monthly wage in August 2026 was €2,696 gross, or €1,689 net – so 63% of the gross amount ended up in the pocket.
- The most common gross monthly wage in 2022 was around €1,165: 4.4% of employees earned between €1,140 and €1,190.
- In 2022, women earned on average 6.1% less than men; the gap was largest in Posavska (10.8%) and smallest in Jugovzhodna Slovenija (1.7%).
- In 2025, the employment rate was highest in Primorsko-notranjska (73.8%) and lowest in Pomurska (62.9%).
- 938,185 people living in Slovenia were in employment in August 2026; the record was 948,444 in November 2024.
- In 2025, 27% of all people in employment worked in the public sector; 64% of them were women.
- The job vacancy rate was highest in “Construction” (6.0%), against 2.5% across all activities (Q3 2026).
- 20% of all jobs in Slovenia are in manufacturing – in Jugovzhodna Slovenija as many as 34% (2024).
- Slovenia spent 2.14% of GDP on research and development in 2024; Jugovzhodna Slovenija spent the most: 3.89% of its regional GDP.
- Homes cost 9.1% more than a year earlier (Q2 2026).
- Second-hand flats in Ljubljana cost 117% more than on average in 2015 (Q4 2025).
- A second-hand flat in Ljubljana sold for €287,000 on average, elsewhere in Slovenia for €164,000 (Q2 2026).
- In 2025, Pomurska issued the most building permits per 1,000 people (5.6) and Osrednjeslovenska the fewest (1.2).
- 75% of Slovenia's exports of goods and services went to EU countries in 2025, 62% to the euro area alone.
- The five largest exporters accounted for 40% of all Slovenian goods exports in 2024; the top 100 for 70%.
- Adjusted for purchasing power, Slovenia's GDP per person was 90% of the EU average in 2025, 16th among the 27 member states.
- Slovenia's biggest foreign tourism market in 2025 was Germany: 2,037,276 overnight stays, 15% of all nights spent by foreign guests. Next came Italy and Austria.
- Tourism accounted for 5.4% of Slovenia's GDP in 2025 (4.9% in 2012).
- Trains carried 20.9 million passengers in 2025 – the most since 1996.
- Ljubljana Airport's busiest country connection in 2025 was Germany: 15% of all passengers. Next came Turkey.
- At the end of 2025, 54% of passenger cars in Slovenia were 10 years old or more, and 13% at least 20.
- Slovenian lorries drove 1.6 billion kilometres in 2025 – 20% of them empty.
Finance (16)
- Pensions and social benefits reduce income inequality: the Gini coefficient falls from 42.7% to 24.6% (2025).
- The effective interest rate (APRC) on new housing loans was 3.8% in September 2026. It was lowest in January 2022: 2.0%.
- Banks granted households EUR 2.15 billion in new housing loans in 2025. The record was EUR 2.31 billion in 2022.
- Households owed banks EUR 9.97 billion in housing loans in September 2026, compared with EUR 1.98 billion in January 2007.
- Households hold EUR 30.53 billion in deposits at banks in Slovenia (September 2026). Of this, 87% is in overnight deposits, available any day.
- The long-term interest rate (yield on Slovenian government bonds) was 3.99% in October 2026. In December 2020 it was even negative: −0.23%.
- General government debt was 65.1% of GDP at the end of 2025 (EUR 46.33 billion). It peaked at 83.4% in 2015.
- In 2025, the government spent EUR 1.81 billion more than it took in – a deficit of 2.5% of GDP. The last surplus was in 2019 (0.7% of GDP).
- VAT brought in EUR 5.61 billion in 2025 – 20.2% of all taxes and social contributions.
- The biggest item of government spending is social protection: EUR 11.51 billion, or 37% of the total (2024).
- Among people aged 65 and over, 29.4% of women and 21.7% of men live below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold (2025). For the whole population it is 14.3%.
- The at-risk-of-poverty threshold for a single person is EUR 1,021 a month (2025); in 2005 it was EUR 440.
- Disposable household income is highest in Osrednjeslovenska: a median of EUR 21,991 a year per equivalent adult. It is lowest in Koroška: EUR 18,823 (2025).
- The richest tenth of people have an average disposable income of EUR 44,193 a year, the poorest tenth EUR 8,700 (2025, per equivalent adult).
- Households saved 14.8% of their disposable income in 2025. The highest saving rate since 1995 was 22.9% in 2020.
- Households spend 15.3% of their consumption on food and non-alcoholic drinks (2025); in 1995 it was 17.2%.
Health (21)
- The most common cause of death is diseases of the circulatory system: 36% of all deaths in 2024.
- 7,971 doctors and specialist doctors work in health care (2025), up from 6,530 in 2017.
- There are 40 hospital beds per 10,000 people – in 1992 there were 59.
- Slovenia spends 9.3% of GDP on health (2024).
- 68 people died on Slovenian roads in 2024, compared with 171 in 2009.
- In 2024, the party at fault had been drinking in 1,697 road accidents – 8.3% of all.
- In 2025, the average adult in Slovenia drank 9.4 litres of pure alcohol, 3.8 litres of it in wine.
- In the 2024/25 school year, 42% of girls in year 6 were vaccinated against HPV.
- The most common reason for a hospital stay due to illness is heart and blood vessel diseases: 15% of all such stays (2025).
- In 2025, people had 17,846,214 contacts with primary health care (visits, check-ups, remote consultations) – 8.4 per resident on average.
- In 2025, 93.9% of preschool children were vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella. The lowest share since 2003 was 92.3% in 2016.
- In the 2025/26 season, 7.7% of the population got a flu vaccine, compared with 8.3% in 2003/04.
- In 2025, employees were on sick leave for 20.8 calendar days on average. The most days were lost to muscle, bone and joint disorders (22% of all days).
- The most common cause of road deaths in 2024 was speeding (driving too fast for the conditions): 30 of 68 people killed.
- In 2024, falls killed 9.0 times as many people as transport accidents: 838 deaths compared with 93.
- The most prescribed medicines in 2025 were painkillers and fever reducers: 1,666,407 of 21,631,390 prescriptions.
- 14,401 injuries at work were reported in 2025, 23 of them fatal; in 2008 there were 25,036.
- 76,841 people received long-term care in 2023 (60,795 in 2011). More were cared for at home (29,501) than in institutions (22,877).
- In 2022, 68% of adults rated their health as good or very good (54% in 2005): 92% in the youngest age group and 40% in the oldest.
- In 2025, 5.9% of boys and 4.5% of girls (children and teenagers) were obese, compared with 2.5% and 2.1% in 1991.
- A hospital stay due to illness lasted 7.1 days on average in 2025, compared with 8.9 days in 2003.
Energy & environment (27)
- The nuclear power plant produced 39% of Slovenia's electricity in 2025.
- Solar power plants produced 1,598 GWh in 2025 – 5.8 times as much as in 2015.
- In 2025, 7% of municipal waste ended up in landfill, compared with 65% in 2010.
- Forest covers 58% of Slovenia (1,177,119 hectares, 2024).
- Slovenian beekeepers produced 4,045 tonnes of honey in 2025, and 1,094 tonnes in 2024.
- Hunters in Slovenia culled 177 brown bears in 2024.
- A litre of 95-octane petrol cost EUR 1.64 (Q2 2026), and EUR 1.42 at the start of 2012.
- Slovenia grows only 32% of the vegetables it consumes (2025).
- Hydro power plants produced 29% of Slovenia's electricity in 2025 (4,276 GWh).
- Solar power plants produced 1,598 GWh of electricity in 2025, wind turbines just 7.4 GWh – solar gave 216 times as much.
- Solar power plants had their best month ever in July 2026: 240 GWh, 23% of all electricity produced that month.
- Households paid on average EUR 0.196 per kWh of electricity in 2025, all taxes included (in 2016: EUR 0.160). The energy itself makes up 57% of that.
- In H2 2025, households in Slovenia paid 27% less for electricity than the EU average (taxes included).
- Households drew 3,292 TJ of ambient heat with heat pumps in 2025 – 120 times as much as in 2000.
- Wood fuels provided 28% of the energy used by households in 2025, compared with 38% in 2000.
- Slovenia emitted 14,804 kt of greenhouse gases (CO2 eq) in 2023, 32% less than in the peak year 2008.
- Per million euros of output, Slovenia's economy emitted 57% less greenhouse gas in 2023 than in 2008.
- Each person uses on average 106 litres of public tap water a day at home (38.7 m³ a year, 2025).
- In 2025, 28% of the water put into public water supply was lost in the pipes (48.9 million m³).
- Cows in Slovenia gave 630,765 tonnes of milk in 2025 – on average 1,728 tonnes a day.
- Poultry has overtaken pork: in 2025, 35.2 kg of poultry and 33.5 kg of pork per person were available for eating; in 2000, 24.8 kg and 38.1 kg.
- In 2024, 29.3 litres of wine per person were available for drinking, 69% of it white. In 2009 it was 37.7 litres.
- Winegrowers harvested 89,971 tonnes of grapes in 2025, 71% of them white.
- Orchards produced 36,388 tonnes of apples in 2025. The best harvest was 93,900 tonnes in 2002, the worst 13,605 tonnes in 2017.
- Slovenian fishers caught 91 tonnes of fish and other sea animals in 2025, compared with 5,859 tonnes in 1990.
- Slovenia's forests yielded 4.9 million m³ of roundwood in 2024. The record was 5.5 million m³ in 2016.
- The number of wild boar culled rose by 109%, from 7,103 in 2002 to 14,812 in 2024.