Population, Slovenia, 1 April 2016

On 1 April 2016 Slovenia's population 2,063,371 or 817 less than three months earlier

On 1 April 2016 Slovenia had a population of 2,063,371 or 817 less than three months earlier. The number of Slovene citizens decreased while the number of foreign citizens increased and exceeded 5.3%.

29 July 2016 at 10:30
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Fewer citizens of Slovenia, more foreign citizens

According to the Statistical Office of Slovenia, the population of Slovenia decreased by over 800 in the first quarter of 2016. The number of citizens of Slovenia decreased by nearly 2,000 (0.1%), while the number of foreign citizens increased by more than 1,100 (1.1%). On 1 April 2016 the 108,899 foreign citizens represented 5.3% of Slovenia’s population.

Increasing share of women among foreign citizens

On 1 April 2016 the population of Slovenia consisted of 1,023,153 men and 1,040,218 women. The share of women among citizens of Slovenia was 51.3% (this share has been slowly decreasing for a number of years); among foreign citizens there were 34.8% women (their share has increased by 3.7 percentage points in the last four years).

Chart 1: Foreign citizens among population, Slovenia

Source: SURS

Table 1: Population by groups and sex, Slovenia

	1. 4. 2015	1. 7. 2015	1. 10. 2015	1. 1. 2016	1. 4. 2016
Population	2,061,952	2,063,077	2,064,632	2,064,188	2,063,371
men	1,021,819	1,022,554	1,023,392	1,023,333	1,023,153
women	1,040,133	1,040,523	1,041,240	1,040,855	1,040,218
Citizens of the Republic of Slovenia	1,959,402	1,958,880	1,958,146	1,956,422	1,954,472
men	954,054	953,907	953,594	952,862	952,112
women	1,005,348	1,004,973	1,004,552	1,003,560	1,002,360
Foreign citizens	102,550	104,197	106,486	107,766	108,899
men	67,765	68,647	69,798	70,471	71,041
women	34,785	35,550	36,688	37,295	37,858