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Population density in Slovenia by municipality

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Demographic features of the population of Slovenia include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

With 101 inhabitants per square kilometre (262/sq mi), Slovenia ranks low among the European countries in population density (compared to 402/km2 (1042/sq mi) for the Netherlands or 195/km2 (505/sq mi) for Italy). The Littoral–Inner Carniola Statistical Region has the lowest population density, and the Central Slovenia Statistical Region has the highest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

According to the 2002 census, Slovenia's main ethnic group are Slovenes (83%). At least 13% of the population were immigrants from other parts of former Yugoslavia, primarily ethnic Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Croats and Serbs and their descendants.<ref name="Medvesek">Template:Cite news</ref> They have settled mainly in cities and suburbanised areas.<ref name="Repolusk">Template:Cite news</ref> Relatively small but protected by the Constitution of Slovenia are the Hungarian and the Italian national community.<ref name="MDL2010">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Constitution">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A special position is held by the geographically dispersed Roma ethnic community.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Slovenia is among the European countries with the most pronounced ageing of population, ascribable to a low birth rate and increasing life expectancy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Almost all Slovenian inhabitants older than 64 are retired, with no significant difference between the genders.<ref name="Hoff2011">Template:Cite book</ref> The working-age group is diminishing in spite of immigration.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The proposal to raise the retirement age from the current 57 for women and 58 for men was rejected in a referendum in 2011.<ref name="CNBC2012-01-23">Template:Cite news</ref> Also the difference among the genders regarding life expectancy is still significant.<ref name="Hoff2011" /> In 2007, it was 74.6 years for men and 81.8 years for women.<ref name=stat2009>Complete life table for the population of Slovenia, 2007 Template:Webarchive, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2009.</ref> In addition, in 2009, the suicide rate in Slovenia was 22 per 100,000 persons per year, which places Slovenia among the highest ranked European countries in this regard.<ref name="stat2009suicide">Template:Cite web</ref>

Population

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Census date Population<ref name="auto"/> Population density
(per km2)
1857 1,101,854 54.4
1869 1,128,768 55.7
1880 1,182,223 58.3
1890 1,234,056 60.9
1900 1,268,055 62.5
1910 1,321,098 65.2
1921 1,304,800 64.4
1931 1,397,650 68.9
1948 1,439,800 71.0
1953 1,504,427 74.2
1961 1,591,523 78.5
1971 1,727,137 85.2
1981 1,891,864 93.3
1991 1,913,355 94.4
2002 1,964,036 96.9
2011 2,050,189 101.1
2021 2,108,977 104.0

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Vital statistics

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Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Mid-year population Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1000) Crude death rate (per 1000) Natural change (per 1000) Total fertility rate Female fertile population (15–49 years)
1950 1,466,881 35,992 17,335 18,657 24.5 11.8 12.7 3.12 389,726
1951 1,480,245 34,819 18,497 16,322 23.5 12.5 11.0 2.98 391,462
1952 1,493,550 34,165 15,617 18,548 22.9 10.5 12.4 2.91 393,199
1953 1,508,428 33,754 14,948 18,806 22.4 9.9 12.5 2.80 394,935
1954 1,521,485 31,828 14,897 16,931 20.9 9.8 11.1 2.58 395,721
1955 1,533,998 32,096 15,109 16,987 20.9 9.8 11.1 2.58 396,506
1956 1,545,591 31,466 16,351 15,115 20.4 10.6 9.8 2.51 397,292
1957 1,556,521 30,086 14,545 15,541 19.3 9.3 10.0 2.38 398,077
1958 1,566,979 28,284 14,082 14,202 18.1 9.0 9.1 2.22 398,863
1959 1,576,204 28,429 15,357 13,072 18.0 9.7 8.3 2.23 399,648
1960 1,580,145 27,825 15,145 12,680 17.6 9.6 8.0 2.18 400,434
1961 1,595,450 28,955 14,013 14,942 18.1 8.8 9.4 2.26 401,219
1962 1,604,980 29,035 15,866 13,169 18.1 9.9 8.2 2.27 406,216
1963 1,614,414 29,174 15,102 14,072 18.1 9.4 8.7 2.28 411,214
1964 1,630,553 29,184 16,729 12,455 17.9 10.3 7.6 2.32 416,211
1965 1,650,413 30,587 15,987 14,600 18.5 9.7 8.8 2.45 421,209
1966 1,669,606 30,941 15,248 15,693 18.5 9.1 9.4 2.48 426,206
1967 1,690,939 29,824 16,353 13,471 17.6 9.7 8.0 2.38 431,203
1968 1,703,708 28,580 17,446 11,134 16.8 10.2 6.5 2.28 436,201
1969 1,714,022 27,883 18,564 9,319 16.3 10.8 5.4 2.17 441,198
1970 1,726,513 27,432 17,354 10,078 15.9 10.1 5.8 2.21 446,196
1971 1,738,101 28,278 17,425 10,853 16.3 10.0 6.2 2.16 451,193
1972 1,751,506 28,713 18,153 10,560 16.4 10.4 6.0 2.14 453,763
1973 1,766,125 29,548 17,614 11,934 16.7 10.0 6.8 2.18 456,332
1974 1,782,470 28,625 17,206 11,419 16.1 9.7 6.4 2.10 458,902
1975 1,800,022 29,786 18,180 11,606 16.5 10.1 6.4 2.16 461,471
1976 1,819,276 30,339 18,157 12,182 16.7 10.0 6.7 2.17 464,041
1977 1,839,358 29,904 17,633 12,271 16.3 9.6 6.7 2.16 466,610
1978 1,862,620 30,354 18,357 11,997 16.3 9.9 6.4 2.19 469,180
1979 1,882,304 30,604 18,148 12,456 16.3 9.6 6.6 2.22 471,749
1980 1,901,208 29,902 18,820 11,082 15.7 9.9 5.8 2.11 474,319
1981 1,917,469 29,220 18,733 10,487 15.2 9.8 5.5 1.96 476,888
1982 1,924,877 28,894 19,647 9,247 15.0 10.2 4.8 1.93 480,333
1983 1,933,104 27,200 20,703 6,497 14.1 10.7 3.4 1.82 482,847
1984 1,942,802 26,274 20,214 6,060 13.5 10.4 3.1 1.75 484,847
1985 1,973,151 25,933 19,854 6,079 13.1 10.1 3.1 1.72 486,852
1986 1,980,718 25,570 19,499 6,071 12.9 9.8 3.1 1.65 489,508
1987 1,989,462 25,592 19,837 5,755 12.9 10.0 2.9 1.64 503,828
1988 1,999,988 25,209 19,126 6,083 12.6 9.6 3.0 1.63 506,828
1989 1,999,404 23,447 18,669 4,778 11.7 9.3 2.4 1.52 508,310
1990 1,998,090 22,368 18,555 3,813 11.2 9.3 1.9 1.46 509,166
1991 2,001,768 21,583 19,324 2,259 10.8 9.7 1.1 1.42 511,191
1992 1,995,832 19,982 19,333 649 10.0 9.7 0.3 1.34 512,506
1993 1,990,623 19,793 20,012 -219 9.9 10.1 -0.1 1.33 511,866
1994 1,988,850 19,463 19,359 104 9.8 9.7 0.1 1.32 511,534
1995 1,987,505 18,980 18,968 12 9.5 9.5 0.0 1.29 514,298
1996 1,991,169 18,788 18,620 168 9.4 9.4 0.1 1.28 516,690
1997 1,986,848 18,165 18,928 -763 9.1 9.5 -0.4 1.25 516,585
1998 1,982,603 17,856 19,039 -1,183 9.0 9.6 -0.6 1.23 516,296
1999 1,985,557 17,533 18,885 -1,352 8.8 9.5 -0.7 1.21 516,261
2000 1,990,272 18,180 18,588 -408 9.1 9.3 -0.2 1.26 515,258
2001 1,992,035 17,477 18,508 -1,031 8.8 9.3 -0.5 1.21 512,358
2002 1,995,718 17,501 18,701 -1,200 8.8 9.4 -0.6 1.21 510,692
2003 1,996,773 17,321 19,451 -2,130 8.7 9.7 -1.1 1.20 507,713
2004 1,997,004 17,961 18,523 -562 9.0 9.3 -0.3 1.25 504,530
2005 2,001,114 18,157 18,825 -668 9.1 9.4 -0.3 1.26 500,449
2006 2,008,516 18,932 18,180 752 9.4 9.1 0.4 1.31 496,853
2007 2,019,406 19,823 18,584 1,239 9.8 9.2 0.6 1.31 491,536
2008 2,022,629 21,817 18,308 3,509 10.8 9.1 1.7 1.53 486,506
2009 2,042,335 21,856 18,750 3,106 10.7 9.2 1.5 1.53 483,681
2010 2,049,261 22,343 18,609 3,734 10.9 9.1 1.8 1.57 479,815
2011 2,052,496 21,947 18,699 3,248 10.7 9.1 1.6 1.56 474,646
2012 2,056,262 21,938 19,257 2,681 10.7 9.4 1.3 1.58 469,442
2013 2,059,114 21,111 19,334 1,777 10.3 9.4 0.9 1.55 463,138
2014 2,061,623 21,165 18,886 2,279 10.3 9.2 1.1 1.58 456,811
2015 2,063,077 20,641 19,834 807 10.0 9.6 0.4 1.57 450,224
2016 2,064,241 20,345 19,689 656 9.9 9.5 0.3 1.58 443,390
2017 2,066,161 20,241 20,509 -268 9.8 9.9 -0.1 1.62 436,478
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2,070,050 19,585 20,485 -900 9.5 9.9 -0.4 1.61 430,225
2019<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2,089,310 19,328 20,588 -1,260 9.3 9.9 -0.6 1.61 428,255
2020<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2,100,126 18,767 24,016 -5,249 8.9 11.4 -2.5 1.60 426,155
2021<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 2,107,007 18,984 23,261 -4,277 9.0 11.0 -2.0 1.64 425,310
2022 2,108,732 17,627 22,492 -4,865 8.4 10.7 -2.3 1.55 423,301
2023 2,120,937 16,989 21,540 -4,551 8.0 10.2 -2.1 1.51 423,982
2024p 2,126,324 16,628 21,426 -4,798 7.8 10.1 -2.3

Current vital statistics

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Period Live births Deaths Natural increase
January-March 2024 3,925 5,947 −2,022
January-March 2025 3,994 5,766 −1,772
Difference Template:Increase +69 (+1.76%) Template:Decreasepositive -181 (-3.04%) Template:Increase +250

Total fertility rates by region

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Regions TFR
Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region 1.82
Carinthia Statistical Region 1.78
Upper Carniola Statistical Region 1.72
Savinja Statistical Region 1.69
Littoral–Inner Carniola Statistical Region 1.67
Lower Sava Statistical Region 1.64
Gorizia Statistical Region 1.62
Eastern Slovenia 1.61
Mura Statistical Region 1.59
Western Slovenia 1.49
Drava Statistical Region 1.43
Central Slovenia Statistical Region 1.43
Coastal–Karst Statistical Region 1.33

Structure of the population

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Age Group Male Female Total %
Total 1 059 938 1 049 039 2 108 977 100
0–4 51 230 48 119 99 349 4.71
5–9 56 155 52 767 108 922 5.16
10–14 56 285 53 175 109 460 5.19
15–19 48 450 45 497 93 947 4.45
20–24 55 500 48 158 103 658 4.92
25–29 60 660 52 345 113 005 5.36
30–34 71 309 62 333 133 642 6.34
35–39 79 855 70 219 150 074 7.12
40–44 85 952 75 862 161 814 7.67
45–49 80 250 72 516 152 766 7.24
50–54 76 913 72 888 149 801 7.10
55–59 76 799 75 553 152 352 7.22
60–64 71 998 72 474 144 472 6.85
65-69 66 495 70 032 136 527 6.47
70-74 50 200 57 623 107 823 5.11
75-79 32 465 43 273 75 738 3.59
80-84 23 621 37 431 61 052 2.89
85-89 11 656 24 986 36 642 1.74
90-94 3 569 11 129 14 698 0.70
95-99 525 2 429 2 954 0.14
100+ 51 230 281 0.01
Age group Male Female Total Percent
0–14 163 670 154 061 317 731 15.07
15–64 707 686 647 845 1 355 531 64.27
65+ 188 582 247 133 435 715 20.66

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Life expectancy at birth

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File:Life expectancy in Slovenia.svg
Life expectancy in Slovenia since 1950
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Life expectancy in Slovenia since 1960 by gender
Period Life expectancy in

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1950–1955 65.60
1955–1960 Template:Increase 67.88
1960–1965 Template:Increase 69.15
1965–1970 Template:Increase 69.17
1970–1975 Template:Increase 69.81
1975–1980 Template:Increase 70.97
1980–1985 Template:Increase 71.21
1985–1990 Template:Increase 72.69
1990–1995 Template:Increase 73.74
1995–2000 Template:Increase 75.26
2000–2005 Template:Increase 76.66
2005–2010 Template:Increase 78.55
2010–2015 Template:Increase 80.31

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Marriages and divorces

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Immigration

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Largest groups of foreign residents<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Rank Nationality Population (2023)
1 Template:Flag 87,446
2 Template:Flag 27,013
3 Template:Flag 17,652
4 Template:Flag 14,863
5 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 9,819
6 Template:Flag 8,524
7 Template:Flag 4,172
8 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 3,135
9 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 2,695
10 Template:Flag 1,285
11 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 1,051
12 Template:Flag 1,029
13 Template:Flag 713
14 Template:Flag 670
15 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 656
16 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 506
17 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 476
18 Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flag 468
19 Template:Flag 468
20 Template:Flag 369

Net Migration

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Slovenia International Migration Statistics (1961-present)
Year Immigrants from Abroad Emigrants to Abroad Net Migration from Abroad
1961 6,537 5,707 830
1962 7,373 5,357 2,016
1963 8,850 6,056 2,794
1964 9,364 5,999 3,365
1965 10,513 6,250 4,263
1966 9,457 5,046 4,411
1967 9,272 5,686 3,586
1968 7,051 6,112 939
1969 7,834 6,705 1,129
1970 7,168 5,665 1,503
1971 7,442 4,913 2,529
1972 7,832 4,475 3,357
1973 8,271 4,956 3,315
1974 9,646 5,281 4,365
1975 11,325 4,479 6,846
1976 12,682 4,570 8,112
1977 13,132 5,113 8,019
1978 12,770 5,432 7,338
1979 13,877 5,780 8,097
1980 11,983 6,710 5,273
1981 11,482 7,220 4,262
1982 10,644 6,207 4,437
1983 9,781 5,977 3,804
1984 9,224 5,910 3,314
1985 8,912 5,386 3,526
1986 9,194 5,294 3,900
1987 8,580 4,124 4,456
1988 7,782 4,089 3,693
1989 7,151 4,730 2,421
1990 7,075 4,908 2,167
1991 5,989 9,060 -3,071
1992 3,461 3,848 -387
1993 2,745 1,390 1,355
1994 1,919 983 936
1995 5,879 3,372 2,507
1996 9,495 2,985 6,510
1997 7,889 5,447 2,442
1998 4,603 6,708 -2,105
1999 4,941 2,606 2,335
2000 6,185 3,570 2,615
2001 7,803 4,811 2,992
2002 9,134 7,269 1,865
2003 9,279 5,867 3,412
2004 10,171 8,269 1,902
2005 15,041 8,605 6,436
2006 20,016 13,749 6,267
2007 29,193 14,943 14,250
2008 30,693 12,109 18,584
2009 30,296 18,788 11,508
2010 15,416 15,937 -521
2011 14,083 12,024 2,059
2012 15,022 14,378 644
2013 13,871 13,384 487
2014 13,846 14,336 -490
2015 15,420 14,913 507
2016 16,623 15,572 1,051
2017 18,808 17,555 1,253
2018 28,455 13,527 14,928
2019 31,319 15,106 16,213
2020 36,110 17,745 18,365
2021 23,624 21,144 2,480
2022 35,613 20,956 14,657
2023 33,939 22,411 11,528

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Ethnic groups

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Percentage of people who used Italian as a "language of daily use" in Istria (Istrian Italians) in 1910<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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Distribution by municipality of native Italian speakers in the Croatian Istria in 2001

The majority of Slovenia's population are ethnic Slovenes (83.06%). Hungarians and Istrian Italians have the status of indigenous minorities under the Constitution of Slovenia, which guarantees them seats in the National Assembly. Most other minority groups, particularly those from other parts of the former Yugoslavia (except for one part of autochthonous community of Serbs and Croats), relocated after World War II for economic reasons. Istrian Italians were more than 50% of the total population of Istria for centuries,<ref name="iemed">Template:Cite web</ref> while making up about a third of the population in 1900.<ref name="EB1911">Template:Cite EB1911</ref> while making up about a third of the population in 1900.<ref name="EB1911">Template:Cite EB1911</ref> The Istrian–Dalmatian exodus (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) was the post-World War II exodus and departure of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) as well as ethnic Croats from Yugoslavia. The emigrants, who had lived in the now Yugoslav territories of the Julian March (Karst Region and Istria), Kvarner and Dalmatia, largely went to Italy, but some joined the Italian diaspora in the Americas, Australia and South Africa.<ref name="rainews">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ilgiornale">Template:Cite web</ref> According to various sources, the exodus is estimated to have amounted to between 230,000 and 350,000 Italians (the others being ethnic Slovenes and Croats who chose to maintain Italian citizenship)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> leaving the areas in the aftermath of the conflict.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="query.nytimes.com">Template:Cite news</ref> According to the census organized in Croatia in 2001 and that organized in Slovenia in 2002, the Italians who remained in the former Yugoslavia amounted to 21,894 people (2,258 in Slovenia and 19,636 in Croatia).<ref name="dzs">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="stat">Template:Cite web</ref> The number of speakers of Italian is larger if taking into account non-Italians who speak it as a second language.

Around 12.4% of the inhabitants of Slovenia were born abroad.<ref>Vsak osmi prebivalec Slovenije priseljenec :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija. Rtvslo.si. Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref> According to data from 2008, there were around 100,000 non-EU citizens living in Slovenia, or around 5% of the overall population of the country.<ref>Odgovor na pisno poslansko vprašanje v zvezi z nastanitvijo tujcev v Sloveniji – Računovodja.com. Racunovodja.com. Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref> The highest number came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, followed by immigrants from Serbia, North Macedonia, Croatia (which has since joined the EU itself) and Kosovo. In April 2019, there were 143,192 foreign citizens living in Slovenia, representing 6.87% of Slovenia's population.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The number of people migrating to Slovenia has been steadily rising from 1995;<ref name="autogenerated1">Statistični urad RS – Selitveno gibanje, Slovenija, 2007 Template:Webarchive. Stat.si. Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref> and the rate of immigration itself has been increasing year-on-year, reaching its peak in 2016. Since Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, the yearly inflow of immigrants has doubled by 2006 and tripled by 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2007, Slovenia was one of the countries with the fastest growth of net migration rate in the European Union.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

Population of Slovenia by ethnic group, 1948–20021
Ethnic
group 		1948 census 1953 census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 2002 census
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Slovenes 1,350,149 97.0 1,415,448 96.5 1,522,248 95.6 1,578,963 94.0 1,668,623 90.8 1,689,657 88.3 1,631,363 83.1
Serbs 7,048 0.5 11,225 0.8 13,609 0.9 20,209 1.2 41,695 2.3 47,401 2.5 38,964 2.0
Croats 16,069 1.2 17,978 1.2 31,429 2.0 41,556 2.5 53,882 2.9 52,876 2.8 35,642 1.8
Ethnic Muslims 179 0.0 1,617 0.1 465 0.0 3,197 0.2 13,339 0.7 26,577 1.4 10,467 0.5
Bosniaks 21,542 1.1
Hungarians 10,579 0.8 11,019 0.8 10,498 0.7 8,943 0.5 8,777 0.5 8,000 0.4 6,243 0.3
Albanians 216 0.0 169 0.0 282 0.0 1,266 0.1 1,933 0.1 3,534 0.2 6,186 0.3
Macedonians 366 0.0 640 0.0 1,009 0.1 1,572 0.1 3,227 0.2 4,371 0.2 3,972 0.2
Romani 46 0.0 1,663 0.1 158 0.0 951 0.1 1,393 0.1 2,259 0.1 3,246 0.2
Montenegrins 521 0.0 1,356 0.1 1,384 0.1 1,950 0.1 3,175 0.2 4,339 0.2 2,667 0.1
Italians 1,458 0.1 854 0.1 3,072 0.2 2,987 0.2 2,138 0.1 2,959 0.2 2,258 0.1
Others/undeclared 5,242 0.4 4,456 0.3 7,369 0.5 19,212 1.1 40,199 2.2 79,374 4.1 201,486 10.3
Total 1,391,873 1,466,425 1,591,523 1,679,051 1,838,381 1,913,355 1,964,036
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Religion

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Template:Main Traditionally, Slovenes are predominantly Roman Catholic. Before World War II, 97% of Slovenes declared as Roman Catholics, around 2.5% were Lutheran, and only around 0.5% belonged to other denominations. Catholicism was an important feature of both social and political life in pre-communist Slovenia. After 1945, the country underwent a process of gradual but steady secularization. After a decade of severe persecution of religions, the communist regime adopted a policy of relative tolerance towards the churches, but limited their social functioning. After 1990, the Roman Catholic Church regained some of its former influence, but Slovenia remains a largely secularized society. According to the 2002 census, 57.8% of the population is Roman Catholic. As elsewhere in Europe, affiliation with Roman Catholicism is dropping: in 1991, 71.6% were self-declared Catholics, which means a drop of more than 1% annually.<ref>Source: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Census of Population, Households and Housing, 2002</ref> The vast majority of Slovenian Catholics belong to the Latin Church. A small number of Eastern Catholics live in the White Carniola region.<ref>Uskoška dediščina Bele krajine na RTVS|Ljudje|Lokalno aktualno. Lokalno.si. Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref>

Despite a relatively small number of Protestants (less than 1% in 2002), the Protestant legacy is important because of its historical significance, since the bases of Slovene standard language and Slovene literature were established by the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Nowadays, a significant Lutheran minority lives in the easternmost region of Prekmurje, where they represent around a fifth of the population and are headed by a bishop with the seat in Murska Sobota.<ref>Predstavitev Template:Webarchive. Evang-cerkev.si. Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref>

Besides these two Christian denominations, a small Jewish community has also been historically present. Despite the losses suffered during the Holocaust, Judaism still numbers a few hundred adherents, mostly living in Ljubljana, site of the sole remaining active synagogue in the country.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

According to the 2002 census, Islam is the second largest religious denomination with around 2.4% of the population. Most Slovenian Muslims came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The third largest denomination, with around 2.2% of the population, is Orthodox Christianity, with most adherents belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Church, whereas a minority belong to the Macedonian Orthodox Church and other Orthodox churches.

In the 2002, around 10% of Slovenes declared themselves as atheists, another 10% professed no specific denomination, and around 16% decided not to answer the question about their religious affiliation. According to the Eurobarometer Poll 2005,<ref name=EUROBAROMETER>Template:Cite web</ref> 37% of Slovenian citizens responded that "they believe there is a god", whereas 46% answered that "they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force" and 16% that "they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, god, or life force".

The distribution of the residents of Slovenia by religion is the following: Roman Catholic 57.8%, atheist 10.1%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox Christian 2.3%, Protestant 0.9%, other and unknown 26.5% (2002).

According to the published data from the 2002 Slovenian census, out of a total of 47,488 Muslims (2.4% of the total population) 2,804 Muslims (5.90% of the total Muslims in Slovenia) declared themselves as ethnic Slovenian Muslims.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Language

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Template:Main The official language in Slovenia is Slovene, which is a member of the South Slavic language group. In 2002, Slovene was the native language of around 88% of Slovenia's population according to the census, with more than 92% of the Slovenian population speaking it in their home environment.<ref name="siol.net">Slovenščina materni jezik za 88 odstotkov državljanov Template:Webarchive. SiOL.net (19 February 2009). Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref><ref name="stat.si">verska, jezikovna in narodna sestava.pmd Template:Webarchive. (PDF) . Retrieved on 26 December 2010.</ref> This places Slovenia among the most homogeneous countries in the EU in terms of the share of speakers of predominant mother tongue.<ref name="Dular">Template:Cite news</ref> Slovene is sometimes characterized as the most diverse Slavic language in terms of dialects,<ref name="MLD 2009">Template:Cite news</ref> with different degrees of mutual intelligibility.Template:Citation needed Accounts of the number of dialects range from as few as seven<ref>McDonald, Gordon C. 1979. Yugoslavia: A Country Study. Washington, DC: American University, p. 93</ref><ref>Greenberg, Marc L. 2009. "Slovene." In Keith Brown & Sarah Ogilvie (eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, pp. 981–984. Oxford: Elsevier, p. 981.</ref><ref>Brown, E. K. & Anne Anderson. 2006. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: Sca-Spe. Oxford: Elsevier, p. 424</ref> dialects, often considered dialect groups or dialect bases that are further subdivided into as many as 50 dialects.<ref>Sussex, Roland, & Paul V. Cubberley. 2006. The Slavic languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 502.</ref> Other sources characterize the number of dialects as nine<ref>Sławski, Franciszek. 1962. Zarys dialektologii południowosłowiańskiej. Warsaw: PAN.</ref> or eight.<ref>Priestly, Tom M. S. 1993. "On 'Drift' in Indo-European Gender Systems.' Journal of Indo-European Studies 11: 339–363.</ref>

The distribution of speakers by language is the following: Slovene 87.7%, Serbo-Croatian 8%, Hungarian 0.4%, Albanian 0.4%, Macedonian 0.2%, Romani 0.2%, Italian 0.2%, German 0.1%, other 0.1% (Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, English, Slovak, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, French, Bulgarian, Arabic, Spanish, Dutch, "Vlach", Rusyn, Greek, Swedish, Danish or Armenian), unknown 2.7% (2002)

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

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The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Population

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2,102,678 (July 2020 est.)

Age structure

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0–14 years: 13.4% (male 138,604/female 130,337)
15–64 years: 69.8% (male 703,374/female 692,640)
65 years and over: 16.8% (male 132,096/female 203,068) (2011 est.)

Median age

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total: 42.8 years
male: 41.1 years
female: 44.5 years (2012 est.)

Urbanization

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urban population: 50% of total population (2012 est.)
rate of urbanization: 0.2% annual rate of change (2010-2015 est.)

Sex ratio

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at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15–64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.66 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2011 est.)

Infant mortality rate

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4.12 deaths/1,000 live births (2010)

Life expectancy at birth

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total population: 80 years
male: 77 years
female: 83 years (2013 est)

See also

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References

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