On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 9.6%^* of the people living in Slovenia, against 9.6%^* across the EU — the 13th highest share of the 27 EU states that publish it.

The largest single foreign citizenship among residents is Bosnia and Herzegovina: 97,752 people on 1 January 2025.

In 2024, 33,023 people moved to Slovenia and 21,491 left: a difference of 11,532^*, more arrivals than departures.

Citizens and foreigners

Residents of Slovenia on 1 January 2024, by the citizenship they hold. Every line is a separate figure Eurostat publishes; the site adds none of them together.

Residents of Slovenia by citizenship, 1 January 2024
Citizenship	People	Share of residents
All residents	2,123,949	—
Foreign citizens and stateless peopleOne group Eurostat publishes, shown beside the lines below	203,273	9.6%^*
Citizens of Slovenia	1,920,676	90.4%^*
Citizens of other EU countries	20,858	1.0%^*
Citizens of countries outside the EU	182,415	8.6%^*
Stateless people	0	0.00%^*
Citizenship not stated	0	0.00%^*

Against the other EU states

Foreign citizens and stateless people as a share of residents on 1 January 2024, for the states ranked next to Slovenia. Only states that publish both figures that year are ranked.

Foreign-citizen share, Slovenia and the states ranked next to it, 1 January 2024
Rank	Country	Foreign citizens and stateless people, share of residents
11	Denmark	10.9%^*
12	Portugal	9.8%^*
13	Slovenia	9.6%^*
14	Italy	8.9%^*
15	France	8.8%^*
—	European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked)	9.6%^*

Largest foreign citizenships

Residents of Slovenia by individual citizenship on 1 January 2025, the ten largest of the 197 citizenships Eurostat publishes. This is the citizenship people hold, not where they were born and not their ethnicity.

Ten largest foreign citizenships among residents of Slovenia, 1 January 2025
Rank	Citizenship	People	Share of residents
1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	97,752	4.59%^*
2	Kosovo	29,905	1.40%^*
3	Serbia	20,144	0.95%^*
4	North Macedonia	16,997	0.80%^*
5	Ukraine	10,149	0.48%^*
6	Croatia	10,018	0.47%^*
7	Russia	5,906	0.28%^*
8	Bulgaria	3,225	0.15%^*
9	Italy	2,466	0.12%^*
10	China	1,548	0.07%^*

Kosovo: This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

Country of birth

Residents of Slovenia by where they were born, on 1 January 2025. This is a different question from citizenship: someone born abroad may hold Slovenia's citizenship, and someone born in Slovenia may not.

Residents of Slovenia by country of birth, 1 January 2025
Country of birth	People	Share of residents
All residents	2,130,850	—
Born in Slovenia	1,801,335	84.5%^*
Born in another country	329,515	15.5%^*
Born in another EU country	60,676	2.8%^*
Born outside the EU	268,839	12.6%^*
Country of birth not stated	0	0.00%^*

Arrivals and departures

People who moved to or left Slovenia during each calendar year, as reported to Eurostat. Arrivals and departures are separate published figures; the difference is the site's subtraction of the two for the same year.

Arrivals, departures and their difference, Slovenia, 2024 and earlier years
Year	Arrived	Left	Arrived minus left
2024	33,023	21,491	11,532^*
2023	33,939	22,411	11,528^*
2022	35,613	20,956	14,657^*
2021	23,624	21,144	2,480^*
2020	36,110	17,745	18,365^*
2019	31,319	15,106	16,213^*

By citizenship, 2024

Arrivals and departures by the citizenship of the person moving. Each line is a separate published figure; none is added to another.

Arrivals and departures by citizenship, Slovenia, 2024
Citizenship	Arrived	Left
Citizens of Slovenia	4,773	5,098
Citizens of other EU countries	2,640	2,195
Citizens of countries outside the EU	25,610	14,198
Stateless people	0	0
Citizenship not stated	0	0

How to read these figures

Citizenship is the legal bond between a person and a state. Country of birth is where a person was born. They are different facts and different tables, and neither records ethnicity, origin or descent.
Residents counted at 1 January are a stock; arrivals and departures are events during a calendar year. A flow is never a change in a stock, and the two are not divided by each other here.
Eurostat takes each country’s own statistics. Countries differ in who counts as an arrival or a resident, so comparisons between countries are approximate.

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Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

A share of residents, computed by dividing one published count by another from the same table, country and date (for example foreign citizens by all residents).
A country's rank among the EU states for its foreign-citizen share, computed by sorting the published figures of the states that publish both counts for the year.
The difference between published immigration and published emigration for the same country and year (arrivals minus departures). It is a subtraction of two published figures, not a net-migration figure published by Eurostat.
The ten largest individual citizenships, selected by sorting the published figures for the latest year in which most countries are published.

Source: Eurostat. Reuse terms.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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