The percentage of Slovenia's population that has been born abroad has meanwhile risen by 1.5 percentage points since 2005, as at the beginning of 2010, 12.4% of the population was born abroad, most of them in Bosnia-Herzegovina (36.3%) and Croatia (28.8%).

At the beginning of 2010, 15.1% of the active population was born abroad, which is 0.5 percentage points more than in 2009. Most of them were employed in construction (28%) and manufacturing (21.5%).

Men were mostly employed in construction (almost 41%) and manufacturing (over 21%), while most women found jobs in manufacturing (22.4%) and in health and social care (13.4%).

On the other hand, most employed persons born in Slovenia were employed in manufacturing (23.5%), followed by those working in wholesale and retail, repair of motor vehicles (almost 15%).

Among the foreigners who immigrated to Slovenia in 2010, 6,663 got employed in the same year. Like in previous years, most of them found jobs in construction (43.8%) and manufacturing (just over 13%).

Apart from those foreign citizens who immigrated to Slovenia in search of jobs, most came to join their families (23.4%).