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Region upper Vah river - Liptov

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Towns

Region upper Vah river – Liptov contains cities Liptovský Hrádok, Liptovský Mikuláš, Martin, Ružomberok, Turany, Turčianske Teplice, Vrútky and 143 villages. More on oma.sk. Statistics on city level on unemployment are for the period of 2024-04-01, for population are fore yar 2021.

name	number of inhabitants in economically active age	number of unemployed number of unemployed women number of long-term unemployed	unemployment rate unemployment rate of women long-term unemployment rate
Martin	51 769 34 480	924 459 236	2.7 % 2.6 % 0.7 %
Liptovský Mikuláš	30 355 20 019	904 447 265	4.5 % 4.4 % 1.3 %
Ružomberok	27 043 17 856	731 354 282	4.1 % 3.9 % 1.6 %
Vrútky	7 480 4 857	156 76 41	3.2 % 3.2 % 0.8 %
Liptovský Hrádok	7 087 4 615	183 93 55	4 % 4 % 1.2 %
Turčianske Teplice	6 311 4 097	148 77 55	3.6 % 3.8 % 1.3 %
Turany	4 161 2 761	74 35 19	2.7 % 2.6 % 0.7 %

Villages with over 2000 inhabitants are Sučany (4758), Liptovské Sliače (3761), Likavka (2945), Liptovská Lúžna (2757), Važec (2374), Východná (2226), Lisková (2056).

villages by number of inhabitants
total	up to 300	300 to 500	500 to 1000	1000 to 1500	over 1500
143	47	23	33	25	15

Unemployment

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of unemployed	15 753	14 960	10 565	6286	5808	7696	8333	7002	6317	5920
number of long-term unemployed	7244	7385	4494	2045	1564	1779	2813	2474	2073	1998
number of people receiving social benefits	9951	8938	5310	3477	3025	2913	2695	3273	3361	3241
number of activational workers	1100	1184	594	366	299	282	248	250	75.4	0
unemployment rate	9	8.7	6.3	3.8	3.6	4.8	5.3	4.5	4	3.8
long-term unemployment rate	4.1	4.3	2.7	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.8	1.6	1.3	1.3
vacancies	243	458	1486	2328	2616	2430	1974	2170	1466	1855

Demographics

demographic pyramid upper Vah river – Liptov 2024

	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
number of inhabitants	243 888	243 007	242 140	241 445	240 924	240 365	238 385	237 491	237 491	237 491
assignation tax	64 851 605	61 211 815	73 920 986	88 791 515	99 832 868	103 183 118	99 055 175	109 413 284	122 664 103	122 986 682
demographic dependency	21.2	22.9	25.2	27.6	28.9	30.1	30.8	32.0	33.0
number of employed foreigners	186	260	433	665	923	1125	1002	1349	1524	1670

demographic pyramid upper Vah river – Liptov 2035

number of inhabitants – upper Vah river – Liptov

Number of unemployed

rok	2012	2014	2016	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
less than 24 years	3625	2706	1625	861	815	1131	1132	850	830	786
25 to 39 years	6112	5112	3583	2099	1953	2656	2819	2317	2049	1977
40 to 54 years	5946	4938	3511	2074	1899	2416	2684	2378	2171	2030
55 years and more	2419	2205	1846	1252	1142	1494	1698	1457	1267	1127

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upper Vah river – Liptov number of inhabitants, unemployed for longer than 4 years, low educated unemployed

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region upper Vah river - Liptov, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/upper-vah-river-liptov

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/upper-vah-river-liptov

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