SLOVAKIA

Capital Bratislava
Area (km2) 49 012
Total population (thousands, 2018) 5 447
Population density (per km2) 111
National currency Euro (EUR)
National statistical office www.statistics.sk
Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
Women in the labour force, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 45%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2017 22%
   hourly wage, 2018 19%
Women in part-time employment, 2019
   percentage of employed women 7%
Female tertiary students, 2016
   percentage of total for both sexes 59%
Female victims of homicide, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 26%
Women researchers, 2018
   percentage of total for both sexes 41%
Life expectancy at birth, 2018
   females, years 80.8
   males, years 73.9
Life expectancy at 65, 2018
   females, years 19.3
   males, years 15.4
Total fertility rate, 2018
   average number of children per woman 1.5
Adolescent fertility rate, 2018
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 26.3
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2017
   age in years 27.8
 
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
1.4
2.0
2.4
2.2
2.0
1.2
Unemployment rate
 (%)
13.2
11.5
9.7
8.1
6.5
5.8
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
29.7
26.5
22.2
18.9
14.9
16.1
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2019 186 409
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 34 183
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 93.1
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 92.1
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 25 869
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   EUR per USD, US=1, 2019 0.505
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 40
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 98
Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2018 3 627
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2018 482
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 1 266
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 46
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2018 3 915
      million tonne-kilometres, 2018 8 691
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2018 5 304
      million tonne-kilometres, 2018 35 590