Slovakia – SK

EU regions: Slovakia

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	1.976
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.141
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	10.5
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	12.1
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	11.2
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2024q3	3.4
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q3	38.6
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	5.1
percentage of part time workers	2023	3.4
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	2.13
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	4.81
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2024q3	39.6
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2023	43
monthly minimum wage in €	2024q3	750
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2024q3	843.05
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2023	14 758
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2022	17.7
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2023	51.8
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	106.3
gender gap in employment rate	2024q3	89.25
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	101.72
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	59
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q3	12.2
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2019q3	28.2
NEET	2023	8.9
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	71
HICP inflation	November 2024	3.6
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2023	1.2
Employment
employment rate	2023	72
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	14.8
job vacancies rate	2024q3	1.2

More on wikipedia wikidata Q214 on OpenStreetMap Slovakia slovensky: SK

Subregions: Slovakia, Bratislava Region, Western Slovakia, Central Slovakia, Eastern Slovakia

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024q3	5.5
youth unemployment rate	2024q3	18.9
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q3	41.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q3	3.4
share of long term unemployed	2024q3	63.3
Unemployment according to labour offices
number of registered unemployed	November 2024	162 381
number of unemployed women	November 2024	33 654
number of long-term unemployed	November 2024	63 887
number of vacancies	November 2024	458 042

Comparison of unemployment according to ILO methodology and registered unemployment yields some differences.

Data on unemployment in counties of Slovakia are available at Local Administrative Units data of Visegrad countries.

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Slovakia

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 44.4 E: 7.2; U: 13.1; I: 24.1	P: 370.5 E: 230.7; U: 25.8; I: 114.0	P: 162.9 E: 111.3; U: 5.5; I: 46.1
Y30-39	P: 55.4 E: 19.6; U: 12.6; I: 23.2	P: 428.6 E: 361.2; U: 26.0; I: 41.4	P: 316.8 E: 290.2; U: 5.8; I: 20.8
Y40-49	P: 49.6 E: 20.5; U: 12.0; I: 17.1	P: 581.6 E: 514.3; U: 23.4; I: 43.9	P: 244.6 E: 234.5; U: 3.9; I: 6.2
Y50-59	P: 39.9 E: 9.9; U: 12.3; I: 17.7	P: 529.1 E: 444.7; U: 17.3; I: 67.1	P: 133.7 E: 127.0; U: 0.9; I: 5.8
Y60-69	P: 70.1 E: 5.1; U: 0.7; I: 64.3	P: 486.5 E: 146.6; U: 3.9; I: 336.0	P: 117.0 E: 57.7; U: 0.7; I: 58.6

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	5 428 792
population density	2022	111.5
old-age dependency ratio	2023	27
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q3	3.3
aggregate replacement ratio	2023	0.62
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2023	0.6
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	29.2
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	13.1

Employment by sectors, Slovakia

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	61.9	2%	B-E	644.6	25%
F	265.2	10%	G-I	597.6	23%
J	99.4	4%	K	73.1	3%
L	20.3	1%	M_N	149.3	6%
O-Q	625.6	24%	R-U	72.4	3%
TOTAL	2610.1	100%

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia: Slovakia ( (listen); Slovak: Slovensko [ˈslɔʋɛnskɔ] (listen)), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republika, listen ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi), with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, and the second-largest city is Košice.

The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Slovakia in the 5^th and 6^th centuries. In the 7^th century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. In the 9^th century, they established the Principality of Nitra, which was later conquered by the Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. In the 10th century, after the dissolution of Great Moravia, the territory was integrated into the Principality of Hungary, which would then become the Kingdom of Hungary in 1000. In 1241 and 1242, after the Mongol invasion of Europe, much of the territory was destroyed. The area was recovered largely thanks to Béla IV of Hungary, who also settled Germans; leading them to become an important ethnic group in the area, especially in what are today parts of central and eastern Slovakia.

After World War I, and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the state of Czechoslovakia was established.

Other: Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia

Neighbours: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria

Subregions: Slovakia, Bratislava Region, Western Slovakia, Central Slovakia, Eastern Slovakia

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Slovakia – SK, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​en/projects/eu-regions/SK

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