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Poverty & Hunger

Republic of

Slovenia

In the early years of the 21st Century

Description: Description: Slovenia

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*** Extreme Weather ***

Slovenia recently faced the biggest natural disaster in its history due to devastating floods. Prime Minister Robert Golob estimated the damage at 500 million euros ($550 million) and reported that three people lost their lives. The floods were caused by torrential rains, with a month’s equivalent of rain falling in less than a day. Road and energy infrastructure, along with hundreds of homes, were severely affected. Thousands of people had to be evacuated, and the Slovenian army joined relief efforts to reach cut-off areas in the north. Entire villages were submerged, bridges collapsed, and outdoor camping sites destroyed. adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot

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The World Factbook - Slovenia

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA

www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/si.html

[accessed 17 November 2020]

World Factbook website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/slovenia/

[accessed 9 January 2021]

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - one of the highest per capita GDPs in Central Europe; excellent infrastructure, a well-educated work force, and a strategic location

GDP - per capita (PPP): $34,500 (2017 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 5.5%

industry: 31.2%

services: 63.3% (2017 est.)

Unemployment rate: 6.6% (2017 est.)

Population below poverty line: 13.9% (2016 est.)

Maternal mortality rate: 7 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate: total: 1.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 81.4 years

Drinking water source: improved: total: 100% of population

Physicians density: 3.09 physicians/1,000 population (2017)

Sanitation facility access: improved: total: 100% of population

Electricity access: electrification - total population: 100% (2016)

The Borgen Project - Slovenia

borgenproject.org/category/slovenia/

[accessed 9 March 2021]

The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for the world’s poor.  It is an innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.  It believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote, nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living conditions for those living on less than $1 per day.

~ 10 Facts About Life Expectancy In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/10-facts-about-life-expectancy-in-slovenia/

~ 10 Facts About Life Expectancy In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/life-expectancy-in-slovenia/

~ Top 8 Facts About Education In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/top-8-facts-about-education-in-slovenia/

~ The Slovenia Poverty Rate Is Improving

borgenproject.org/slovenia-poverty-rate/

~ Addressing Hunger In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/hunger-in-slovenia-people-suffer/

~ Poverty In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/poverty-in-slovenia/

~ Education In Slovenia

borgenproject.org/education-in-slovenia/

Looking back a few years …

Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations

www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Slovenia-ECONOMY.html

[accessed 9 January 2021]

Before its independence, Slovenia was the most highly developed and wealthiest republic of the former Yugoslav SFR, with a per capita income more than double that of the Yugoslav average, and nearly comparable to levels in neighboring Austria and Italy.

Slovenia freed prices and implemented a privatization law in November 1992, which has enabled private businesses to expand. 

In 2001, an estimated 55% of the economy had been privatized.

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