Distillers Country guides / Slovenia
Slovenia
A one-page guide to Slovenia for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Ljubljana
- Official languages
- Slovene
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (UTC+2 summer)
People
- Population growth
- 0.2% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 56.0%
- Aged under 15
- 14.5%
- Aged 65 and over
- 22.2%
- Life expectancy
- 82.3 years
Climate
Mostly temperate continental; sub-Mediterranean on the short coast; alpine in the Julian Alps.
Alcohol
- Legal drinking age
- 18 (purchase age)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 10.91 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Slovenia; World Bank indicators API; WHO Global Health Observatory API; UN Comtrade public API; EU excise duty tables (position at 1 July 2021); Your Europe: alcohol allowances for travellers entering the EU; Legal drinking age - Wikipedia; STAS - Spirits Trade Association Slovenia. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.