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Population in Slovakia compared to Syria: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Slovakia was 5,422,069 in 2024 vs 24,672,760 people in Syria in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Slovakia's population is 5,390,674 people compared to 26,304,877 in Syria.

Population statistics:

  • Syria's population is 4.88 times bigger than Slovakia's.
  • Slovakia is ranked the 125th most populous country in the world, while Syria is the 57th.
  • The countries together account for 0.38% of the world: 0.07% for Slovakia vs 0.32% for Syria.
  • For the last 10 years, Slovakia has had an average growth rate of +0.01% per year vs +1.25% in Syria.
  • Since 2005, the population of Slovakia has increased from 5.37M people to 5.39M (0.33% growth), while Syria has grown from 18.8M to 26.3M (39.8% growth).
  • Syria is projected to reach its peak in 2086 at 44.1M people, while Slovakia's population already peaked in 2020 at 5.46M people and is projected to decrease to 3.37M people by 2100.

Slovakia vs Syria: live population counter

Slovakia Syria
Current population
5390674
26304877
Population rank 125/197 57/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.32%
One net population change
1.88 hours
29.3 seconds
One birth every
10.8 minutes
1.01 minutes
One death every
9.69 minutes
4.42 minutes
One migration net change every
25 minutes
57.7 seconds
Annual migration change -21,027 +546,494
Daily growth/decline -13 +2,954
Annual growth/decline -4,671 +1,078,137
Annual growth/decline rate -0.09% +4.57%
Population growth rate rank 171/197 5/197

Slovakia and Syria: population history and growth rate by year chart

Slovakia
Population

Growth rate
Syria
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Slovakia Syria Slovakia Syria
1960 4,068,095 4,673,500 - -
1961 4,191,667 4,815,466 3.04% 3.04%
1962 4,238,188 4,959,340 1.11% 2.99%
1963 4,282,017 5,110,467 1.03% 3.05%
1964 4,327,341 5,269,087 1.06% 3.1%
1965 4,370,983 5,435,267 1.01% 3.15%
1966 4,411,666 5,609,047 0.93% 3.2%
1967 4,449,367 5,790,198 0.85% 3.23%
1968 4,483,915 5,978,742 0.78% 3.26%
1969 4,518,607 6,175,166 0.77% 3.29%
1970 4,538,223 6,380,609 0.43% 3.33%
1971 4,557,449 6,598,094 0.42% 3.41%
1972 4,596,622 6,826,024 0.86% 3.45%
1973 4,641,445 7,060,321 0.98% 3.43%
1974 4,689,623 7,302,160 1.04% 3.43%
1975 4,739,105 7,554,364 1.06% 3.45%
1976 4,789,507 7,817,320 1.06% 3.48%
1977 4,840,501 8,090,501 1.06% 3.49%
1978 4,890,125 8,372,759 1.03% 3.49%
1979 4,938,973 8,661,909 1% 3.45%
1980 4,979,815 8,957,663 0.83% 3.41%
1981 5,016,105 9,260,189 0.73% 3.38%
1982 5,055,099 9,572,511 0.78% 3.37%
1983 5,091,971 9,904,809 0.73% 3.47%
1984 5,127,097 10,258,398 0.69% 3.57%
1985 5,161,768 10,625,672 0.68% 3.58%
1986 5,193,838 11,002,844 0.62% 3.55%
1987 5,222,840 11,388,923 0.56% 3.51%
1988 5,250,596 11,782,264 0.53% 3.45%
1989 5,275,942 12,179,060 0.48% 3.37%
1990 5,299,187 12,579,208 0.44% 3.29%
1991 5,303,294 12,980,821 0.08% 3.19%
1992 5,305,016 13,385,571 0.03% 3.12%
1993 5,325,305 13,795,686 0.38% 3.06%
1994 5,346,331 14,208,583 0.39% 2.99%
1995 5,361,999 14,616,801 0.29% 2.87%
1996 5,373,361 15,018,104 0.21% 2.75%
1997 5,383,291 15,417,542 0.18% 2.66%
1998 5,390,516 15,820,413 0.13% 2.61%
1999 5,396,020 16,228,061 0.1% 2.58%
2000 5,388,720 16,637,888 -0.14% 2.53%
2001 5,378,867 17,051,338 -0.18% 2.48%
2002 5,376,912 17,468,332 -0.04% 2.45%
2003 5,373,374 17,889,296 -0.07% 2.41%
2004 5,372,280 18,336,875 -0.02% 2.5%
2005 5,372,807 18,814,091 0.01% 2.6%
2006 5,373,054 19,637,022 0.005% 4.37%
2007 5,374,622 20,884,125 0.03% 6.35%
2008 5,379,233 21,636,564 0.09% 3.6%
2009 5,386,406 21,976,969 0.13% 1.57%
2010 5,391,428 22,482,421 0.09% 2.3%
2011 5,398,384 22,878,098 0.13% 1.76%
2012 5,407,579 22,759,763 0.17% -0.52%
2013 5,413,393 21,666,917 0.11% -4.8%
2014 5,418,649 20,273,659 0.1% -6.43%
2015 5,423,801 19,424,618 0.1% -4.19%
2016 5,430,798 19,193,834 0.13% -1.19%
2017 5,439,232 19,224,668 0.16% 0.16%
2018 5,446,771 19,577,845 0.14% 1.84%
2019 5,454,147 20,353,534 0.14% 3.96%
2020 5,458,827 21,049,429 0.09% 3.42%
2021 5,447,247 21,628,839 -0.21% 2.75%
2022 5,431,752 22,462,173 -0.28% 3.85%
2023 5,426,740 23,594,623 -0.09% 5.04%
2024 5,422,069 24,672,760 -0.09% 4.57%
2025 5,390,674 25,620,422 -0.58% 3.84%
2026 5,367,504 26,472,499 -0.43% 3.33%
2027 5,357,756 27,261,544 -0.18% 2.98%
2028 5,346,292 28,006,558 -0.21% 2.73%
2029 5,333,135 28,719,309 -0.25% 2.54%
2030 5,318,323 29,395,545 -0.28% 2.35%
2031 5,302,079 30,029,824 -0.31% 2.16%
2032 5,284,585 30,633,661 -0.33% 2.01%
2033 5,265,970 31,212,478 -0.35% 1.89%
2034 5,246,341 31,768,138 -0.37% 1.78%
2035 5,225,725 32,294,792 -0.39% 1.66%
2036 5,204,191 32,788,153 -0.41% 1.53%
2037 5,181,996 33,258,407 -0.43% 1.43%
2038 5,159,193 33,710,718 -0.44% 1.36%
2039 5,135,906 34,131,238 -0.45% 1.25%
2040 5,112,164 34,533,185 -0.46% 1.18%
2041 5,088,002 34,916,936 -0.47% 1.11%
2042 5,063,600 35,279,863 -0.48% 1.04%
2043 5,038,933 35,623,325 -0.49% 0.97%
2044 5,014,014 35,944,394 -0.49% 0.9%
2045 4,988,989 36,265,295 -0.5% 0.89%
2046 4,963,847 36,583,260 -0.5% 0.88%
2047 4,938,476 36,878,640 -0.51% 0.81%
2048 4,912,885 37,171,029 -0.52% 0.79%
2049 4,886,923 37,477,690 -0.53% 0.83%
2050 4,860,572 37,793,378 -0.54% 0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Slovakia increased by 50,994 people (a 0.95% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Slovakia lost -33,127 (a 0.61% decline), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Slovakia was ranked 109th most populous country in 2005 and is 125th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Slovakia's population will shrink by 9.83% to 4,860,572 people with a rank change from 125th to 129th. The population of Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.

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