The unemployment rate among the population aged between 15 and 64 born in the former Yugoslav republics, which represents the bulk of the foreign-born population in Slovenia, stood at 12% in the second quarter of 2014.

The average unemployment rate for the entire Slovenian population in this period stood at 9.5%, which was also the rate for the foreign-born population in Slovenia born outside the former Yugoslav republics.

According to the data collected in the 2011 census, 90% of the foreign-born population in Slovenia was born in a former Yugoslav republic, and almost two-thirds of them had Slovenian citizenship at the time of the census.

In the observed period, 11% of the population aged between 15 and 64 was foreign-born, with the main reason for emigrating to Slovenia being work, family or education.

The labour participation rate for the foreign-born population was 60.6%, which was 4.3 percentage points lower than the rate for the Slovenian-born population. It was even lower for the population born in a former Yugoslav republic (60.1%).