Economy - overview:
With excellent infrastructure, a well-educated work force, and a strategic location between the Balkans and Western Europe, Slovenia has one of the highest per capita GDPs in Central Europe. Slovenia became the first 2004 European Union entrant to adopt the euro (on 1 January 2007) and has experienced one of the most stable political transitions in Central and Southeastern Europe. In March 2004, Slovenia became the first transition country to graduate from borrower status to donor partner at the World Bank. In 2007, Slovenia was invited to begin the process for joining the OECD; it became a member in 2012. However, long-delayed privatizations, particularly within Slovenia�?"s largely state-owned and increasingly indebted banking sector, have fueled investor concerns since 2012 that the country would need EU-IMF financial assistance. In 2013, the European Commission granted Slovenia permission to begin recapitalizing ailing lenders and transferring their nonperforming assets into a '??bad bank�?? established to restore bank balance sheets. Yield-seeking bond investors�?" strong demand for Slovenian debt helped the government in 2013 to continue to finance itself independently on international markets. The government has embarked on a program of state asset sales intended to bolster investor confidence in the economy, which in 2014 is poised to contract 1%, its third-year of recession.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (official exchange rate): GDP - real growth rate: GDP - per capita (PPP): Gross national saving: GDP - composition, by end use:
GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
Agriculture - products: Industries: Industrial production growth rate: Labor force: Labor force - by occupation:
Unemployment rate: Population below poverty line: Household income or consumption by percentage share:
Distribution of family income - Gini index: Budget:
Taxes and other revenues: Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): Public debt: Fiscal year: Inflation rate (consumer prices): Central bank discount rate: Commercial bank prime lending rate: Stock of narrow money: Stock of broad money: Stock of domestic credit: Market value of publicly traded shares: Current account balance: Exports: Exports - commodities: Exports - partners: Imports: Imports - commodities: Imports - partners: Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: Debt - external: Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: Exchange rates:
$57.36 billion (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 93
$58.03 billion (2012 est.)
$59.52 billion (2011 est.)
note:
data are in 2013 US dollars
[see also: GDP country ranks ]
$46.82 billion (2013 est.)
[see also: GDP (official exchange rate) country ranks ]
-1.1% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 206
-2.5% (2012 est.)
0.7% (2011 est.)
[see also: GDP - real growth rate country ranks ]
$27,400 (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
$28,200 (2012 est.)
$29,000 (2011 est.)
note:
data are in 2013 US dollars
[see also: GDP - per capita country ranks ]
22.4% of GDP (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 66
20.6% of GDP (2012 est.)
20.4% of GDP (2011 est.)
[see also: Gross national saving country ranks ]
household consumption:
56.1%
government consumption:
20.2%
investment in fixed capital:
17.9%
investment in inventories:
-0.8%
exports of goods and services:
78.1%
imports of goods and services:
-71.5%
(2013 est.)
agriculture:
2.8%
industry:
28.9%
services:
68.3% (2013 est.)
potatoes, hops, wheat, sugar beets, corn, grapes; cattle, sheep, poultry
ferrous metallurgy and aluminum products, lead and zinc smelting; electronics (including military electronics), trucks, automobiles, electric power equipment, wood products, textiles, chemicals, machine tools
-0.6% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 171
[see also: Industrial production growth rate country ranks ]
913,400 (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 146
[see also: Labor force country ranks ]
agriculture:
2.2%
industry:
35%
services:
62.8% (2009)
13.1% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 130
12% (2012 est.)
[see also: Unemployment rate country ranks ]
13.5% (2012)
[see also: Population below poverty line country ranks ]
lowest 10%:
3.9%
highest 10%:
19.8% (2011)
23.7 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 140
23.8 (2005)
[see also: Distribution of family income - Gini index country ranks ]
revenues:
$19.56 billion
expenditures:
$21.62 billion (2013 est.)
41.8% of GDP (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 32
[see also: Taxes and other revenues country ranks ]
-4.4% of GDP (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 156
[see also: Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-) country ranks ]
71.7% of GDP (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 37
54.4% of GDP (2012 est.)
note:
defined by the EU's Maastricht Treaty as consolidated general government gross debt at nominal value, outstanding at the end of the year in the following categories of government liabilities: currency and deposits, securities other than shares excluding financial derivatives, and loans; general government sector comprises the subsectors: central government, state government, local government, and social security funds
[see also: Public debt country ranks ]
calendar year
1.8% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 59
2.7% (2012 est.)
[see also: Inflation rate (consumer prices) country ranks ]
0.75% (31 December 2013)
country comparison to the world: 129
1.5% (31 December 2012)
note:
this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area
[see also: Central bank discount rate country ranks ]
5.7% (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 137
5.7% (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Commercial bank prime lending rate country ranks ]
$11.85 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 73
$11.39 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
note:
see entry for the European Union for money supply in the euro area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for the 17 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money circulating within their own borders
[see also: Stock of narrow money country ranks ]
$25.4 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 77
$24.88 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Stock of broad money country ranks ]
$42.76 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 62
$45.1 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Stock of domestic credit country ranks ]
$6.87 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 75
$6.31 billion (31 December 2012)
$6.783 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
[see also: Market value of publicly traded shares country ranks ]
$2.954 billion (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 35
$1.486 billion (2012 est.)
[see also: Current account balance country ranks ]
$28.73 billion (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 66
$27.08 billion (2012 est.)
[see also: Exports country ranks ]
manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
Germany 20%, Italy 12%, Austria 7.9%, Croatia 6.2%, France 4.8%, Russia 4.6% (2012)
$29.49 billion (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 68
$28.39 billion (2012 est.)
[see also: Imports country ranks ]
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, food
Italy 16.5%, Germany 16.3%, Austria 10.4%, Croatia 4.8%, Hungary 4% (2012)
$889 million (31. December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 137
$927.6 million (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Reserves of foreign exchange and gold country ranks ]
$52.53 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 60
$52.48 billion (31 December 2012)
[see also: Debt - external country ranks ]
$14.67 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 82
$15.57 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Stock of direct foreign investment - at home country ranks ]
$7.453 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 58
$7.436 billion (31 December 2012 est.)
[see also: Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad country ranks ]
euros (EUR) per US dollar -
0.7634 (2013 est.)
0.7752 (2012 est.)
0.755 (2010 est.)
0.7198 (2009 est.)
0.6827 (2008 est.)