Slovenia 
Facts
Population:
1,930,132 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
16.09% (male 159,428; female 151,134)
15-64 years:
69.61% (male 681,333; female 662,170)
65 years and over:
14.3% (male 101,354; female 174,713) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.14% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
9.32 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
9.98 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.58 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
4.51 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
75.08 years
male:
71.2 years
female:
79.17 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.28 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
200 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Slovene(s)
adjective:
Slovenian
Ethnic groups:
Slovene 88%, Croat 3%, Serb 2%, Bosniak 1%, Yugoslav 0.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, other 5% (1991)
Religions:
Roman Catholic 68.8%, Uniate Catholic 2%, Lutheran 1%, Muslim 1%, atheist 4.3%, other 22.9%
Languages:
Slovenian 91%, Serbo-Croatian 6%, other 3%
Literacy:
definition:
NA
total population:
99%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $22.9 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $12,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
4%
industry:
35%
services:
61% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.2%
highest 10%:
20.7% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
8.9% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
857,400
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:
7.1% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$8.11 billion
expenditures:
$8.32 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries:
ferrous metallurgy and rolling mill products, aluminum reduction and rolled products, lead and zinc smelting, electronics (including military electronics), trucks, electric power equipment, wood products, textiles, chemicals, machine tools
Industrial production growth rate:
6.2% (2000)
Electricity - production:
12.451 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
34.44%
hydro:
29.58%
nuclear:
35.98%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
10.024 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
2.2 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
645 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
potatoes, hops, wheat, sugar beets, corn, grapes; cattle, sheep, poultry
Exports:
$8.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
Exports - partners:
Germany 31%, Italy 14%, Croatia 8%, Austria 7%, France 6% (1999)
Imports:
$9.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, food
Imports - partners:
Germany 21%, Italy 17%, France 11%, Austria 8%, Croatia 4%, Hungary, Russia (1999)
Debt - external:
$6.2 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
ODA, $5 million (1993)
Currency:
tolar (SIT)
Currency code:
SIT
Exchange rates:
tolars per US dollar - 225.93 (January 2001), 222.66 (2000), 181.77 (1999), 166.13 (1998), 159.69 (1997), 135.36 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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Bancni Vestnik
(Business and Banking),
(Independent), Ljubljana
http://www.delo.si/
(Moderate, left-wing), Ljubljana
http://www.dnevnik.si/
(Catholic weekly), Ljubljana
http://www.druzina.si/
(Business), Ljubljana
http://www.finance-on.net
(Independent weekly), Ljubljana
http://www.mladina.si
(weekly edition fo the daily Dnevnik), Ljubljana
http://www.dnevnik.si
Slovenia in the News
Comment from Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Macedonia
Zurich's Neue Zurcher Zeitung looks at youth culture in Slovenia.
World Press Review - From Belgrade's independent weekly newspaper The Reporter, a contextual primer on the roots of the Balkan conflict.
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