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Slovenia was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy until the end of 1918 when it became part of Yugoslavia. In 1991, Yugoslavia disintegrated and the independent Republic of Slovenia was established. Today it is one of the smallest European countries, with only 2 million inhabitants. Although the total population of Slovenia has been stagnating in the 1990s, its age structure has been changing constantly. The process of population ageing continues. According to the 2002 census the proportion of the young population (0–17 years) was 19.3%. Ten years ago, at the beginning of the 1990s, the proportion was 25%.
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Filipčič, K. (2006). Welfare Versus Neo-Liberalism: Juvenile Justice in Slovenia. In: Junger-Tas, J., Decker, S.H. (eds) International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09478-6_16
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