Healthcare in Slovenia

The effectiveness of the health care system in Slovenia is well above average in a global comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Slovenia is 77.8 years for men and 83.4 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 8.3 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 2,219.10 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 8.5 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,115.01 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).

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Spread of COVID-19 in Slovenia

Current incidence in the week ending 03/31/2023: 80.3 new infections per 100,000 population

Since the beginning of the pandemic until March 31st, 2023, a total of 1,338,718 infected people and 9,201 deaths have been reported in Slovenia.

The total of 1,338,718 infected people currently represents 63.87 percent of the total population. The number of new infections during the seven days preceding March 31st, 2023, was 1,682, for a 7-day incidence of 80.3 cases per 100,000 population. In the same week, one people died from (or with) COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, this results in a mortality rate of about 0.7 percent in Slovenia.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 3.02 million vaccine doses have been administered as of March 19th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 1.23 million people who have received at least one vaccination (58.5 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 652,386 people (31.1 percent).

1.20 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Slovenia (= 57.0 percent).
This means that Slovenia is only in the middle of the field in terms of vaccination coverage. The vaccination rate is higher in 127 countries.

Weight and size

	Male	Female
Body height	181 cm	167 cm
BMI	26.6	26.6
Weight	87.0 kg	74.2 kg

Diseases

	Slovenia	Ø worldwide
Diabetes *	5.90%	8.81%
Tuberculosis	0.04‰	1.34‰
HIV / Aids	0.00%	0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.

Child vaccinations

	Slovenia	Ø worldwide
Measles	95.0%	81.7%
Hepatitis B	0.09%	0.08%
DTP *	8.60%	8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Slovenia, 22.0 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.
The number of underweight newborns is 6 percent.

Medical supplies

The medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Slovenia is above average, but is not as good as the average within the EU. The country provides 4.4 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 6,310 physicians in Slovenia, there are about 3.00 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality of major known diseases can be reduced to an above-average extent. For example, only about 11 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Drinking water supply

As one of the few countries, Slovenia offers almost its entire population (98.27 percent) access to an immediately available, running drinking water connection. The percentage of population reached by additional supply from springs and wells or delivered drinking water is 100 percent. In a global comparison, only about 74 percent of the population has direct access to tested and always available drinking water. Within the European Union, this share is 98 percent. Only in a few countries does the proportion fall below 10 percent.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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