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The majority of Slovenia's population is Slovenian (over 88%). Hungarians and Italians have the status of indigenous minorities under the Constitution of Slovenia, which guarantees them seats in the National Assembly. Most other minority groups, particularly those from the former Yugoslavia, immigrated after World War II for economic reasons. The majority of Slovenians are Roman Catholic, though the country also has a small number of Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Slovenian language is a Slavic language, written in the Roman script.

In 1991, about 18,000 permanent residents of Slovenia who were citizens of other former Yugoslav republics decided not to apply for Slovenian citizenship. However, the government at the time also removed their residency status without informing them. These people were later called the erased. Despite the fact that the removal of residency status was proclaimed illegal in several Constitutional Court rulings, there are still around 4,000 of them who have no legal status of any kind.

Demographics of Slovenia, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

Population: 2,003,584 (September 2005 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 14% (male 145,016/female 137,012)
15-64 years: 70.6% (male 715,629/female 704,079)
65 years and over: 15.4% (male 118,298/female 191,036) (2005 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.12% (2000 est.)

Birth rate: 9.35 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Death rate: 9.9 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Net migration rate: 1.75 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.57 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 4.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.86 years
male: 70.97 years
female: 78.97 years (2000 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.28 children born/woman (2000 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Slovenian(s)
adjective: Slovenian or Slovene

Ethnic groups: Slovenian 83.06%, Croat 1.81%, Serb 1.98%, Bosniak 1.10%, Italian 0.11%, Hungarian 0.32%, Roma 0.17%, unknown 11.45% (2002)

Religions: Roman Catholic 57.8%, Protestant 0.9%, Orthodox Christian 2.3%, Muslim 2.4%, atheist 10.1%, other 26.5% (2002)

Languages: Slovenian (official), Italian and Hungarian also official in designated municipalities.

Slovenian 87.7%, Croatian 2.8%, Serbo-Croatian 1.8%, Bosnian 1.6%, Serbian 1.6%, Hungarian 0.4%, Albanian 0.4%, Macedonian 0.2%, Romani 0.2%, Italian 0.2%, German 0.1%, other 0.1% (Russian, Montenegrin, Czech, Ukrainian, English, Slovak, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Chinese, French, Bulgarian, Arabic, Spanish, Croato-Serbian, Dutch, Vlach, Rusin, Greek, Swedish, Danish), unknown 2.7% (2002)

Literacy:
definition: NA
total population: 99%
male: NA%
female: NA%

• Slovenia

• Demography and Social Statistics of Slovenia, SURS
• Results of the 2002 census, SURS