Slovakia

Facts

Population:  5,414,937 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  18.86% (male 522,563; female 498,832) 15-64 years:  69.6% (male 1,872,496; female 1,896,249) 65 years and over:  11.54% (male 236,996; female 387,801) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.13% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  10.05 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  9.25 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0.53 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.99 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.61 male(s)/female total population:  0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  8.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  73.97 years male:  69.95 years female:  78.2 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.25 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  less than 0.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  400 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Slovak(s) adjective:  Slovak
Ethnic groups:  Slovak 85.7%, Hungarian 10.6%, Roma 1.6% (the 1992 census figures underreport the Gypsy/Romany community, which is about 500,000), Czech, Moravian, Silesian 1.1%, Ruthenian and Ukrainian 0.6%, German 0.1%, Polish 0.1%, other 0.2% (1996)
Religions:  Roman Catholic 60.3%, atheist 9.7%, Protestant 8.4%, Orthodox 4.1%, other 17.5%
Languages:  Slovak (official), Hungarian
Literacy:  definition:  NA total population:  NA% male:  NA% female:  NA%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $55.3 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  2.2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $10,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  4.5% industry:  29.3% services:  66.2% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  5.1% highest 10%:  18.2% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  12.2% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  3 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:  industry 29.3%, agriculture 8.9%, construction 8%, transport and communication 8.2%, services 45.6% (1994)
Unemployment rate:  17% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $5.2 billion expenditures:  $5.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999)
Industries:  metal and metal products; food and beverages; electricity, gas, coke, oil, nuclear fuel; chemicals and manmade fibers; machinery; paper and printing; earthenware and ceramics; transport vehicles; textiles; electrical and optical apparatus; rubber products
Industrial production growth rate:  9.3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  22.582 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  37.56% hydro:  18.27% nuclear:  44.17% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  21.471 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  930 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  1.4 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, cattle, poultry; forest products
Exports:  $12 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  machinery and transport equipment 39.4%, intermediate manufactured goods 27.5%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 13%, chemicals 8% (1999)
Exports - partners:  EU 59.7% (Germany 27.8%, Austria 8%, Italy 8.9%), Czech Republic 18.1% (1999)
Imports:  $12.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and transport equipment 37.7%, intermediate manufactured goods 18%, fuels 13%, chemicals 11%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 9.5% (1999)
Imports - partners:  EU 51.4% (Germany 26%, Italy 7.1%), Czech Republic 16.6%, Russia 11.9% (1999)
Debt - external:  $10.3 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $421.9 million (1995)
Currency:  Slovak koruna (SKK)
Currency code:  SKK
Exchange rates:  koruny per US dollar - 48.09 (March 2001), 46.395 (2000), 41.363 (1999), 35.233 (1998), 33.616 (1997), 30.654 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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