Economy
GDP: $87.32 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 5.5% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $16,100 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 2.7% (2005 est.)
Currency: Slovak koruna (SKK)
Exchange rates: koruny per US dollar - 31.018 (2005), 32.257 (2004), 36.773 (2003), 45.327 (2002), 48.355 (2001)
People
Population: 5,439,448 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.15% (2006 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic 68.9%, Protestant 10.8%, Greek Catholic 4.1%, other or unspecified 3.2%, none 13% (2001 census)
Languages: Slovak (official) 83.9%, Hungarian 10.7%, Roma 1.8%, Ukrainian 1%, other or unspecified 2.6% (2001 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Bratislava
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence: 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
