Slovenia’s Population 1,997,590 at the End of Last Year

Ljubljana, 16 July

At the end of 2004 1,997,590 people were living in Slovenia – or 0.06 percent more than at the end of 2003.

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the population of Slovenia increased in the first three quarters of last year and was 0.1 percent higher at the end of the third quarter. In the final quarter it fell by 0.06 percent, mainly as the result of a drop in the number of foreign nationals with temporary residence permits (a fall of 1365).

The average age of the population of Slovenia at the end of last year was 40.3, while over the last three years the average age has increased by one year. At the end of 2004 there were some 42 age-dependent people per 100 working-age people in Slovenia, or six fewer than 20 years ago.

In the last five years the population has increased by 0.5 per cent or 9835 people. The average annual growth in this period has been 0.1 percent. The increase in the size of the population of Slovenia has for the most part been the consequence of positive net migrations by foreign nationals.

The most evident changes recorded by the Statistics Office in this period are in the group of foreign nationals with permanent residence (an increase of 230.3 percent) and the group of foreign nationals with temporary residence (a fall of 37.9 percent). The changes are largely the consequence of the Aliens Act, which sets the condition of eight years of uninterrupted residence in the country as a condition for acquiring a permanent residence permit. As a result of the regular naturalisation of immigrant foreign nationals, the number of citizens of Slovenia has also increased over the last five years (by 0.4 percent).

Slovenia’s Population 1,997,590 at the End of Last Year

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