The latest officially reported population of Slovenia was 2,126,324 in 2024 vs 37,860,221 people in Ukraine in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Slovenia's population is 2,124,696 people compared to 39,426,577 in Ukraine.
Population statistics:
- Ukraine's population is 18.6 times bigger than Slovenia's.
- Slovenia is ranked the 147th most populous country in the world, while Ukraine is the 40th.
- The countries together account for 0.5% of the world: 0.03% for Slovenia vs 0.48% for Ukraine.
- For the last 10 years, Slovenia has had an average growth rate of +0.29% per year vs -1.74% in Ukraine.
- Since 2005, the population of Slovenia has increased from 2M people to 2.12M (6.21% growth), while Ukraine has declined from 47.6M to 39.4M (17.1% decline).
- Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 17% of the population in Slovenia and 42.2% in Ukraine.
Slovenia vs Ukraine: live population counter
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| Current population |
2124696
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39426577
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| Population rank | 147/197 | 40/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.03% | 0.48% |
| One net population change |
1.49 hours
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4.13 minutes
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| One birth every |
31 minutes
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2.48 minutes
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| One death every |
24.3 minutes
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1.06 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
2.64 hours
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27.5 seconds
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| Annual migration change | +3,319 | +1,146,012 |
| Daily growth/decline | +16 | +349 |
| Annual growth/decline | +5,863 | +127,385 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +0.28% | +0.34% |
| Population growth rate rank | 151/197 | 146/197 |
Slovenia and Ukraine: population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
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| 1960 | 1,584,720 | 42,824,093 | - | - |
| 1961 | 1,594,131 | 43,399,766 | 0.59% | 1.34% |
| 1962 | 1,603,649 | 43,943,674 | 0.6% | 1.25% |
| 1963 | 1,616,971 | 44,462,372 | 0.83% | 1.18% |
| 1964 | 1,632,114 | 44,951,156 | 0.94% | 1.1% |
| 1965 | 1,649,160 | 45,386,892 | 1.04% | 0.97% |
| 1966 | 1,669,905 | 45,802,519 | 1.26% | 0.92% |
| 1967 | 1,689,528 | 46,215,988 | 1.18% | 0.9% |
| 1968 | 1,704,546 | 46,614,325 | 0.89% | 0.86% |
| 1969 | 1,713,874 | 46,976,256 | 0.55% | 0.78% |
| 1970 | 1,724,891 | 47,261,306 | 0.64% | 0.61% |
| 1971 | 1,738,335 | 47,573,287 | 0.78% | 0.66% |
| 1972 | 1,752,233 | 47,946,893 | 0.8% | 0.79% |
| 1973 | 1,766,697 | 48,277,121 | 0.83% | 0.69% |
| 1974 | 1,776,132 | 48,576,570 | 0.53% | 0.62% |
| 1975 | 1,793,581 | 48,865,229 | 0.98% | 0.59% |
| 1976 | 1,820,249 | 49,120,842 | 1.49% | 0.52% |
| 1977 | 1,842,377 | 49,336,481 | 1.22% | 0.44% |
| 1978 | 1,862,548 | 49,521,243 | 1.09% | 0.37% |
| 1979 | 1,882,599 | 49,721,381 | 1.08% | 0.4% |
| 1980 | 1,901,315 | 49,955,152 | 0.99% | 0.47% |
| 1981 | 1,906,531 | 50,189,281 | 0.27% | 0.47% |
| 1982 | 1,910,334 | 50,402,724 | 0.2% | 0.43% |
| 1983 | 1,922,321 | 50,637,029 | 0.63% | 0.46% |
| 1984 | 1,932,154 | 50,887,599 | 0.51% | 0.49% |
| 1985 | 1,941,641 | 51,108,770 | 0.49% | 0.43% |
| 1986 | 1,965,964 | 51,318,745 | 1.25% | 0.41% |
| 1987 | 1,989,776 | 51,515,732 | 1.21% | 0.38% |
| 1988 | 1,995,196 | 51,724,853 | 0.27% | 0.41% |
| 1989 | 1,996,351 | 51,917,817 | 0.06% | 0.37% |
| 1990 | 1,998,161 | 52,054,092 | 0.09% | 0.26% |
| 1991 | 1,999,429 | 52,170,961 | 0.06% | 0.22% |
| 1992 | 1,996,498 | 52,323,671 | -0.15% | 0.29% |
| 1993 | 1,991,746 | 52,350,126 | -0.24% | 0.05% |
| 1994 | 1,989,443 | 52,075,998 | -0.12% | -0.52% |
| 1995 | 1,989,872 | 51,665,539 | 0.02% | -0.79% |
| 1996 | 1,988,628 | 51,226,109 | -0.06% | -0.85% |
| 1997 | 1,985,956 | 50,786,885 | -0.13% | -0.86% |
| 1998 | 1,981,629 | 50,379,731 | -0.22% | -0.8% |
| 1999 | 1,983,045 | 49,976,446 | 0.07% | -0.8% |
| 2000 | 1,988,925 | 49,556,660 | 0.3% | -0.84% |
| 2001 | 1,992,060 | 49,106,855 | 0.16% | -0.91% |
| 2002 | 1,994,530 | 48,677,281 | 0.12% | -0.87% |
| 2003 | 1,995,733 | 48,315,136 | 0.06% | -0.74% |
| 2004 | 1,997,012 | 47,979,507 | 0.06% | -0.69% |
| 2005 | 2,000,474 | 47,585,556 | 0.17% | -0.82% |
| 2006 | 2,006,868 | 47,278,694 | 0.32% | -0.64% |
| 2007 | 2,018,122 | 47,062,798 | 0.56% | -0.46% |
| 2008 | 2,021,316 | 46,819,175 | 0.16% | -0.52% |
| 2009 | 2,039,669 | 46,623,731 | 0.91% | -0.42% |
| 2010 | 2,048,583 | 46,456,003 | 0.44% | -0.36% |
| 2011 | 2,052,843 | 46,307,853 | 0.21% | -0.32% |
| 2012 | 2,057,159 | 46,210,056 | 0.21% | -0.21% |
| 2013 | 2,059,953 | 46,126,770 | 0.14% | -0.18% |
| 2014 | 2,061,980 | 45,972,380 | 0.1% | -0.33% |
| 2015 | 2,063,531 | 45,784,896 | 0.08% | -0.41% |
| 2016 | 2,065,042 | 45,616,832 | 0.07% | -0.37% |
| 2017 | 2,066,388 | 45,436,041 | 0.07% | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 2,073,894 | 45,208,907 | 0.36% | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 2,088,385 | 44,957,458 | 0.7% | -0.56% |
| 2020 | 2,102,419 | 44,680,014 | 0.67% | -0.62% |
| 2021 | 2,108,079 | 44,298,640 | 0.27% | -0.85% |
| 2022 | 2,112,076 | 41,048,766 | 0.19% | -7.34% |
| 2023 | 2,120,461 | 37,732,836 | 0.4% | -8.08% |
| 2024 | 2,126,324 | 37,860,221 | 0.28% | 0.34% |
| 2025 | 2,124,696 | 38,980,379 | -0.08% | 2.96% |
| 2026 | 2,122,189 | 39,535,850 | -0.12% | 1.43% |
| 2027 | 2,119,145 | 39,245,208 | -0.14% | -0.74% |
| 2028 | 2,115,423 | 38,952,086 | -0.18% | -0.75% |
| 2029 | 2,111,105 | 38,654,416 | -0.2% | -0.76% |
| 2030 | 2,106,524 | 38,353,848 | -0.22% | -0.78% |
| 2031 | 2,101,619 | 38,050,624 | -0.23% | -0.79% |
| 2032 | 2,096,578 | 37,746,688 | -0.24% | -0.8% |
| 2033 | 2,091,480 | 37,442,088 | -0.24% | -0.81% |
| 2034 | 2,086,418 | 37,135,839 | -0.24% | -0.82% |
| 2035 | 2,081,306 | 36,828,149 | -0.25% | -0.83% |
| 2036 | 2,075,930 | 36,519,767 | -0.26% | -0.84% |
| 2037 | 2,070,284 | 36,209,679 | -0.27% | -0.85% |
| 2038 | 2,064,791 | 35,897,705 | -0.27% | -0.86% |
| 2039 | 2,059,470 | 35,584,263 | -0.26% | -0.87% |
| 2040 | 2,054,131 | 35,270,911 | -0.26% | -0.88% |
| 2041 | 2,048,670 | 34,957,580 | -0.27% | -0.89% |
| 2042 | 2,042,743 | 34,641,778 | -0.29% | -0.9% |
| 2043 | 2,036,503 | 34,324,132 | -0.31% | -0.92% |
| 2044 | 2,030,103 | 34,004,074 | -0.31% | -0.93% |
| 2045 | 2,023,552 | 33,680,448 | -0.32% | -0.95% |
| 2046 | 2,016,934 | 33,351,499 | -0.33% | -0.98% |
| 2047 | 2,010,203 | 33,017,828 | -0.33% | -1% |
| 2048 | 2,003,376 | 32,680,968 | -0.34% | -1.02% |
| 2049 | 1,996,286 | 32,338,515 | -0.35% | -1.05% |
| 2050 | 1,988,691 | 31,990,136 | -0.38% | -1.08% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Slovenia increased by 63,057 people (a 3.15% growth), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Slovenia gained 61,165 (a 2.96% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).
Slovenia was ranked 142nd most populous country in 2005 and is 147th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th now.
The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Slovenia's population will shrink by 6.4% to 1,988,691 people with a rank change from 147th to 148th. The population of Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.
Biggest cities by population
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| City | Population |
| Ljubljana | 284K |
| Maribor | 96.2K |
| Kranj | 37.9K |
| Celje | 37.9K |
| Velenje | 25.6K |
| Novo Mesto | 24.2K |
| Nova Gorica | 13K |
| Izola | 11.7K |
| Murska Sobota | 11.2K |
| Piran | 3.79K |
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Population differences between Slovenia and Ukraine
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| Life expectancy | 81.9 years | 74.9 years |
| Average age | 44 years | 43.1 years |
| Median age | 45.3 years | 43.2 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 50.2:49.8 | 46.5:53.5 |
| Fertility rate | 1.51 births per woman | 0.98 births per woman |
| Population density | 273.5 ppl/mi² | 169.2 ppl/mi² |
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