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Slovenia

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Basic Information

Government Type: Parliamentary republic

Capital City: Ljubljana

GDP & Economic Information

Macroeconomy & Sovereign Data

Central Bank Bank of Slovenia
Currency Euros (EUR)
International Reserves USD 2.27 billion (2021)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2022
Gross Domestic Product – GDP USD 60.89 billion (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) USD 90.91 billion (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021

GDP Data

Real GDP growth 2017 4.8%
2018 4.4%
2019 3.3%
2020 -42%
2021* 6.3%

*Estimate
GDP per capita – current prices USD 28,939.27 (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
GDP per capita – PPP
USD 43,206.36 (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
GDP (PPP) – share of world total 0.06% (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
GDP – composition by sector agriculture: 2.1%
industry: 29.4%
services: 56.9%
(2020 estimate)
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D; (% of GDP) 2.0% (2019)
OECD, retrieved January 2022
Inflation 2017 4.8%
2018 4.4%
2019 3.3%
2020 –42%
2021* 6.3%

*Estimate

Inflation & Debt

Inflation 2017 4.8%
2018 4.4%
2019 3.3%
2020 –42%
2021* 6.3%

*Estimate
Government Bond Ratings Standard & Poor’s: AA–

Moody’s: A3

Standard & Poor’s / Moody’s
Unemployment rate 2017 4.8%
2018 4.4%
2019 3.3%
2020 –42%
2021* 6.3%

*Estimate
Household saving rates 16.3% (2020)
OECD, retrieved January 2022
Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP) 2017 74.1%
2018 70.3%
2019 65.6%
2020 79.8%
2021* 77.2%

*Estimate
Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP) 2017 2.1%
2018 2.5%
2019 –1.9%
2020* -6.9%
2021* -5.8%

*Estimate
Market value of publicly traded shares USD 8.4 billion (2020)
World Bank / Market capitalization
Largest Companies N/A

Import/Export

Exports as percent of GDP (Exports of goods and services) 77.9% (2020)
World Bank – World Development Indicators (updated Feb 2022)
Shares in world total merchandising export 0.25% (2020)
Shares in world total commercial services export 0.2% (2020)

Total exports USD 41.7 billion (2020 estimate)
Export commodities Packaged medicines, cars and vehicle parts, refined petroleum, electrical lighting/signaling equipment, electricity (2019)
Total imports USD 36.6 billion (2020 estimate)
Import commodities Packaged medicines, cars and vehicle parts, refined petroleum, delivery trucks, electricity (2019)
Exports – major partners Germany 18%, Italy 11%, Croatia 8%, Austria 7%, France 5%, Switzerland 5% (2019)

Imports – major partners Germany 14%, Italy 12%, Austria 8%, Switzerland 8%, China 7% (2019)

Competitiveness & Trade

Current account balance USD 3.9 billion (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
Current account balance by percentage of GDP 6.4% (2021 estimate)
IMF – World Economic Outlook, October 2021
FDI inflows 2019 USD 1.4 billion
2020 USD 1.2 billion
2021 USD 529 million
FDI Outflows 2019 USD 281 million
2020 USD 389 million
2021 USD 555 million
Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser N/A
Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2014 N/A
Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2015 N/A
Best countries for doing business Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.

Overall ranking:

37 out of 190 countries

​Subcategories:

Starting a Business: 41 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 119 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 23 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 54 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 119 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 18 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 45 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 1 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 112 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 8 out of 190 countries
World Bank – Doing Business 2020
Global competitiveness ranking 60 out of 141 (2019)
World Economic Forum / Global competitiveness ranking
Index of Economic Freedom Ranking: 32 / Score: 70.5 (Mostly Free)
The Heritage Foundation – 2022 Index of Economic Freedom

Population & Geographic Data

Total Area 20,273 sq km


Total Population 1990 N/A
2000 1.99 Million
2010 2.05 Million
2015 2.06 Million
2020 2.07 Million
Urban population as % of total population 1960 28.2%
1980 48%
2000 50.8%
2020 54.5%
Population median age 44.2 years


CIA World Factbook / Population median age
Population growth rate 0.03% (2018 estimate)
Life expectancy 81.2 years (2018 estimate)


CIA World Factbook / Life expectancy
% of population living on less than $3.10 a day 0% (last available estimate, 2015)
Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index) 25.4 (last available estimate, 2015)

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)
Freedom House rating Free
Political Rights: 1
Civil Liberties: 1 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Total telephone subscribers as % of population Fixed: 33.4% Mobile: 118.7% (2018)

(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)
Internet users as % of total population 79.75 % (20

Language & Religon

Languages Slovenian (official) 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4%, Italian (official, only in municipalities where Italian national communities reside), Hungarian (official, only in municipalities where Hungarian national communities reside)
Literacy
Total population: 99.7%
Male: 99.7%
Female: 99.7%
Definition: na (2015 est.)
Religions Catholic 57.8%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3%, other Christian 0.9%, unaffiliated 3.5%, other or unspecified 23%, none 10.1% (2002 census)

World Rankings

Population 2.07 million
Mercer Cost of living index Ljubljana: 142nd (2019)
C02 Emissions per capita 6.21 metric tons per capita (2014)

Global Finance Rankings & Awards: Slovenia

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Data Sources:

IMF World Economic Outlook

UN World Population Prospects

World Inequality Report

S&P Global Ratings

Moody’s

Fitch Ratings

IMF Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)

UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

CIA The World Factbook

World Bank’s World Integrated Trade Solution

Forbes Global 2000

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