Slovenia: Comparisons

Abstract

Slovenia’s position relative to other countries is shown based on 147 indicators grouped into 22 categories. Data were collected from a variety of sources and systematically processed, and Slovenia was compared with 197 countries of the world, 47 European countries, and 27 European Union countries. Although Slovenia is a small central European country with only two million inhabitants, in some areas it ranks at or near the very top in an international or at least European context, for example, with respect to the relative proportions of forest and of protected areas, average age of the population and the closely related age index, the proportion of the labor force in industry, agricultural machinery, the proportion of electricity from nuclear fuels, and especially success in sports. It is also remarkably successful with regard to the quality of life and residence, as reflected in the Global Peace Index, the End of Childhood Index, and the Gini Index of Income Equality. It also ranks very high according to the number of research and technical journal articles per million people.