Slovenia is a country with interesting migration data, both in terms of incoming and outgoing movements of people. On 1 July 2018 the total population of Slovenia was 2,067,284. Of this 1,943,441 people were Slovenian citizens and 123,843 were foreign citizens. The overall population of Slovenia has been increasing over the past few years, while the number of young people (aged 15 – 34) has been decreasing. At the same time, the number of people moving to Slovenia from a foreign country has been rising. There are also people who are moving abroad. The main destination countries where young people from Slovenia move to are Germany, Croatia, Austria, Canada and France.

Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia, with the total population of the municipality counting 110,871 people. The overall population of Maribor, as well as the number of young people (aged 15 – 34) living there, has been falling. At the same time, the number of people moving to Maribor from abroad has been increasing. This means a rise in the share of the population with foreign citizenship. The people who move to Maribor are still mostly from the republics of former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia). But since Croatia entered the EU, people arriving from that country are statistically 'migrants from another EU country'. On the other hand, people from Maribor are moving out as well (either abroad or to other parts of Slovenia). The active population in Maribor has been increasing in numbers, however, about 28-29% of these active people are working outside the municipality's limits. Another interesting fact is that just over a hundred people from Maribor commuted to work daily to Austria in 2017, a number that has dropped from 330 in 2016 and 691 in 2015.

We have illustrated some of these migration facts in an infographic, which you can see if you click on the image above.

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