Country profile · SK
Slovakia
8 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
5.4m
GDP
€130.2B
GDP per capita
€24,026
Population density
111 /km²
Unemployment
5.5%
pop-weighted
Employment
78.1%
pop-weighted
Area
49,016 km²
NUTS-3 regions
8
Country indicators · 72 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€117.8B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€2.1B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€27.6B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€21.3B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€10.1B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€28.8B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€12,792
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,766 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€23,805
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€52.1B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€14.5B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€104.0B
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€12.5B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€6.0B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€27.0B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€22.3B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
2.4m
country total
Self-employed persons
350k
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
513.5k
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
76.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
18.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
664.2k
country total
Enterprise births
78k
country total
Enterprise deaths
91k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.9%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
27.9
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
5 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
29.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
36.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
20.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
6.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
92.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
14.7m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
502 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
2.5k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
47
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
76.2
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
9
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
3.5m
country total
Population aged 65+
1m
country total
Population aged under 15
856.5k
country total
Median age of population
42.9 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
28.8%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
-1.0 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.4 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
8.5 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
9.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
46.2k
country total
Deaths
53.9k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
52.9%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.42
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
141 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
16.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.5 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
566 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,665 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
269 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.1 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
5.7 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
61.4 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
143 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
48 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
381 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
10 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
99 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
4 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
20.7
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
12.4
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
53.5
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
SK010
Bratislavský kraj
pop 736.4k · gdp €36.5B
SK042
Košický kraj
pop 778.8k · gdp €15.5B
SK021
Trnavský kraj
pop 565.9k · gdp €15.0B
SK031
Žilinský kraj
pop 686.1k · gdp €14.7B
SK023
Nitriansky kraj
pop 665.6k · gdp €14.5B
SK041
Prešovský kraj
pop 810k · gdp €11.8B
SK032
Banskobystrický kraj
pop 611.1k · gdp €11.1B
SK022
Trenčiansky kraj
pop 565.6k · gdp €11.1B