Eastern Slovakia (Slovak: Východné Slovensko) is one of the four NUTS-2 Regions of Slovakia. It was created at the same time as were the Košice and Prešov regions. Eastern Slovakia is the least developed of the four NUTS-2 regions of Slovakia, with its GDP per capita being 54% of the European Union average (€16,300 per year).
Eastern Slovakia
Východné Slovensko | |
|---|---|
Region | |
 | |
| Country |  Slovakia |
| Area | |
• Total | 15,728.4 km2 (6,072.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | |
• Total | 1,587,883 |
| • Density | 100/km2 (260/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €21.208 billion (2021) |
| NUTS code | SK04 |
| HDI (2022) | 0.817[4] very high · 4th |
Demographics
edit| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1,228,029 | — |
| 1980 | 1,377,211 | +12.1% |
| 1991 | 1,480,459 | +7.5% |
| 2001 | 1,555,980 | +5.1% |
| 2011 | 1,606,250 | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 1,591,147 | −0.9% |
| Source: Censuses[5][6] | ||
References
edit- ^ Total area and land area, by NUTS 2 regions - km2
- ^ "Number of inhabitants by gender (annually)".
- ^ "EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ "Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011" (PDF) (in Slovak).
- ^ "Census 2021 - Population - Basic results". Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. 2021-01-01.
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