MigrantoMigration trends in Slovakia
Europe
389.9K people from Slovakia have built lives abroad. That's 7.2% of the country population, spread across 38 different countries
5.4M
Population
323.9K
Immigrants
389.9K
Emigrants
−66K
Outflow
1 in every 15 people born in Slovakia now lives abroad
The #117 largest source of emigrants worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Slovakia
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
41.2K immigrants · 322.9K emigrants
1995
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 68%
2000
- Without migration, the population would have declined
- The foreign-born population passed 100K residents
2010
- Migration accounted for 82% of the country's population growth
Today
- Ukraine overtook Czech Republic as the largest source of new arrivals
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 64%
- Roughly 1 in 20 residents was now foreign-born
- Surge of immigrants from Ukraine — 110.7K new arrivals
- Since 1990: 282.7K more foreign-born residents and 67.1K more citizens living abroad
Data source: International Migrant Stock 2024 (UN DESA, Population Division)
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