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Slovaks

Словаки · Q171336

language area per Glottologcensus counts
4,567,547
Slovakia, census 2021 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
4,792,700
sum of censuses in 11 countries, 2001-2022
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Slovakia: 4,567,547 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 11 countries; together they add up to 4,792,700. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2001-2022) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

In Russia's 2020 census (reference date 1 October 2021), 193 people identified with the nationality "Словаки" (Slovaks)1. That is less than 0.01% of the 130,587,364 residents who stated a nationality.

Main language: Slovak. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Slovakia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [2]
4,567,547
United States2023 · ancestry (self-reported) · «Slovak» · [3]
585,917
Czechia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · usual residents; ethnicity voluntary; persons stating two ethnicities counted under both · [4]
162,578
Serbia2022 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [5]
41,730
Romania2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [6]
10,232
Ukraine2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [7]
6,397
Croatia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [8]
3,688
Slovenia2002 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [9]
216
Russia2021 · ethnicity / nationality · «Словаки» · [1]
193
Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [10]
49
North Macedonia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [11]
38
Kazakhstan2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Slovak» · [12]
32
Sum across 11 countries4,792,700

In detail: Russia, 2021 census

Sex, urban and rural, Russian regions

Sex

Men 123 · 63.7%Women 70 · 36.3%

Urban and rural

Urban 163 · 84.5%Rural 30 · 15.5%

Where: the 10 regions with the largest numbers

Moscow (city)
36
Moscow Oblast
30
Saint Petersburg (city)
16
Sevastopol (as listed by Rosstat)
8
Krasnodar Krai
6
Samara Oblast
6
Stavropol Krai
5
Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
5
Primorsky Krai
5
Kaluga Oblast
4

Source [1]: Rosstat, 2020 census, vol. 5, table 1

Languages and their lineage

Slovak

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Balto-Slavicbalt1263
  4. Slavicslav1255
  5. West Slavicwest2792
  6. Czech-Slovakczec1260
  7. Slovakslov1269

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansArmeniansCubansLithuaniansAlbanians

Sources

  1. Rosstat. National composition of the population of the Russian Federation. Results of the 2020 All-Russian Population Census (reference date 1 October 2021), vol. 5, table 1. Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx (archived copy)
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Slovakia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_070E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Slovak). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
  4. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Czechia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  5. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Serbia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  6. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Romania, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  7. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ukraine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  8. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Croatia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  9. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Slovenia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  10. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Latvia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  11. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. North Macedonia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  12. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kazakhstan, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  13. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)