Main Trends of Population Development in the Slovak Republic in 2014

The publication records the main trends of population development in the Slovak Republic over the last ten years against the background of changes that have occurred within the demographic processes and the demographic population structures. The authors analyse the basic demographic processes ¿ nuptiality, divorce, natality, fertility, abortion, mortality, migration and their changes, and characterize the population structures by sex, age, marital status, nationality and citizenship. The publication is supplemented by tables, charts and maps. The tables contain data from 2005, the charts illustrate the development of the basic population processes for the period of 1950-2014. Data in the publication was drawn from the processing of statistical reports OBYV 1-5/12 within the Programme of State Statistical Surveys. Abortion data are taken over from reporting forms of the Ministry of Health of the SR provided by the National Health Information Centre in Bratislava and subsequently processed by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.