International Youth Day
On the International Youth Day 78 young people in Slovenia will enter the world of adults
The share of young people (aged 15–29) in Slovenia is declining; at the beginning of 2016 they accounted for 16% of the population. In 2015, half of young people were in education and a third were employed. More than half of young people aged 25–29 who moved abroad had upper secondary education.
Interactive infographic 1: Young people (aged 16–29) who visited events and cultural or historical sights, Slovenia, 2015
Source: SURS
Young people in SloveniaAt the beginning of 2016 there were 327,000 young people (aged 15–29) in Slovenia, which is 16% of the population. The share of young people in Slovenia is declining; ten years ago it was over 20%. 6% of young people in the country were foreign nationals, which is 0.8 of a percentage point more than five years ago.
The most common names among young people in Slovenia are Anja and Rok. According to the National Institute of Public Health, Anja is on average 167 cm tall and has 63 kg, while Rok is on average 13 cm taller and 15 kg heavier. In 2015, almost half of young people were in education; 39% of young men and 27% of young women were employed.
At the beginning of 2015, 36,000 young people were living with partners, 55% of them were married. Twice as many young women as men were living in marriage or consensual union. In 10,000 families of married or unmarried partners both partners were young (aged 15–29). Among young women 17% had given birth; among 29-year-olds the share was 50%.
In 2014, 4,000 young people emigrated from Slovenia, most of them to Austria, Germany and Croatia. Despite the general opinion that most emigrants have tertiary education, for young people this is not true. Almost half of young emigrants had upper secondary education and a third had basic education or less. Among 25–29-year-old emigrants, who are compared to 15–19-year-old emigrants old enough to have completed tertiary education, those with upper secondary education were in the majority (52%), while just over a quarter had tertiary education. The share of 25–29-year-old emigrants with tertiary education was about the same as the share of people of the same age who stayed in Slovenia (27% vs 32%).
Spare time of young people
In the Survey on Living Conditions1 SURS asked people in Slovenia what events or sights they visited. The greatest difference between young people and other people (aged 29+) was in visiting cinemas, which were in one year visited by 71% of young people and by only 28% of other people.
As regards live events, most young people visited concerts or theatrical performances. As regards cultural and historical sights, most young people visited museums and galleries, castles and churches. Sport events were visited by 52% of young men and 36% of young women. Almost a third (31%) of young people were engaged in artistic activities at least once a month, most young people in singing and dance (10%) and playing instruments (9%).
In Slovenia 14.7% of young people below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold
One of the focuses of this year’s International Youth Day is eradication of poverty by 2030. The 2015 data for Slovenia show that the at-risk-of-poverty rate for young people (aged 15–29) was 14.7%, i.e. 0.7 of a percentage point lower than in 2014. Despite that, the at-risk-of-poverty rate for young people was higher than for the general population and the second highest in the past ten years.
1 The survey was conducted in 2015. Young people are those aged 16–29 and the data refer to the last 12 months before the interview.
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