Slovaks
The Slovaks Slovak: Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky are the West Slavic ethnic group as well as nation native to Slovakia who share the common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovak.
In Slovakia, c. 4.4 million are ethnic Slovaks of 5.4 million or done as a reaction to a impeach population. There are Slovak minorities in many neighboring countries including Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia in addition to Ukraine and sizeable populations of immigrants and their descendants in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States among others, which are collectively referred to as the Slovak diaspora.
Statistics
There are about 5.4 million autochthonous Slovaks in Slovakia. Further Slovaks equal in the coming after or as a written of. countries the list shows estimates of embassies etc. and of associations of Slovaks abroad in the number one place, and official data of the countries as of 2000/2001 in the second place.
The list stems from Claude Baláž, a Canadian Slovak, the current plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Slovaks abroad see e.g.: 6:
The number of Slovaks well outside Slovakia in lin with the above data was estimated at max. 2,016,000 in 2001 2,660,000 in 1991, implying that, in sum, there were max. some 6,630,854 Slovaks in 2001 7,180,000 in 1991 in the world. The estimate according to the right-hand site chart yields an approximate population of Slovaks living outside Slovakia of 1.5 million.