Ethnic Groups
The majority of Slovenia's population is Slovene (83.06%). 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 other parts of the former Yugoslavia (except for one part of autochthonous community of Serbs and Croats), relocated after World War II for economic reasons.
Around 12.4% of the inhabitants of Slovenia were born abroad. According to data from 2008, there were around 100,000 non-EU citizens living in Slovenia, or around 5% of the overall population of the country. The highest number came from Bosnia-Hercegovina, followed by immigrants from Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Kosovo. The number of people migrating to Slovenia has been steadily rising from 1995; and has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Since Slovenia joined the EU in 2004, the yearly inflow of immigrants has doubled by 2006 and tripled by 2009. In 2007, Slovenia was one of the countries with the fastest growth of net migration rate in the European Union.
| Ethnic group |
census 1948 | census 1953 | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 2002 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Slovenes | 1,350,149 | 97.0 | 1,415,448 | 96.5 | 1,522,248 | 95.6 | 1,578,963 | 94.0 | 1,668,623 | 90.8 | 1,689,657 | 88.3 | 1,631,363 | 83.1 |
| Serbs | 7,048 | 0.5 | 11,225 | 0.8 | 13,609 | 0.9 | 20,209 | 1.2 | 41,695 | 2.3 | 47,401 | 2.5 | 38,964 | 2.0 |
| Croats | 16,069 | 1.2 | 17,978 | 1.2 | 31,429 | 2.0 | 41,556 | 2.5 | 53,882 | 2.9 | 52,876 | 2.8 | 35,642 | 1.8 |
| Muslims | 179 | 0.0 | 1,617 | 0.1 | 465 | 0.0 | 3,197 | 0.2 | 13,339 | 0.7 | 26,577 | 1.4 | 10,467 | 0.5 |
| Bosniacs | 21,542 | 1.1 | ||||||||||||
| Hungarians | 10,579 | 0.8 | 11,019 | 0.8 | 10,498 | 0.7 | 8,943 | 0.5 | 8,777 | 0.5 | 8,000 | 0.4 | 6,243 | 0.3 |
| Albanians | 216 | 0.0 | 169 | 0.0 | 282 | 0.0 | 1,266 | 0.1 | 1,933 | 0.1 | 3,534 | 0.2 | 6,186 | 0.3 |
| Macedonians | 366 | 0.0 | 640 | 0.0 | 1,009 | 0.1 | 1,572 | 0.1 | 3,227 | 0.2 | 4,371 | 0.2 | 3,972 | 0.2 |
| Romani | 46 | 0.0 | 1,663 | 0.1 | 158 | 0.0 | 951 | 0.1 | 1,393 | 0.1 | 2,259 | 0.1 | 3,246 | 0.2 |
| Montenegrins | 521 | 0.0 | 1,356 | 0.1 | 1,384 | 0.1 | 1,950 | 0.1 | 3,175 | 0.2 | 4,339 | 0.2 | 2,667 | 0.1 |
| Italians | 1,458 | 0.1 | 854 | 0.1 | 3,072 | 0.2 | 2,987 | 0.2 | 2,138 | 0.1 | 2,959 | 0.2 | 2,258 | 0.1 |
| Others/undeclared | 5.242 | 0.4 | 4,456 | 0.3 | 7,369 | 0.5 | 19,212 | 1.1 | 40,199 | 2.2 | 79,374 | 4.1 | 201,486 | 10.3 |
| Total | 1,391,873 | 1,466,425 | 1,591,523 | 1,679,051 | 1,838,381 | 1,913,355 | 1,964,036 | |||||||
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