Slovakia

The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the close of World War I allowed the Slovaks to join the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once more became free. The Slovaks and the Czechs agreed to separate peacefully on 1 January 1993. Slovakia joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004 and the euro area on 1 January 2009.
== Economical characteristics ==
* Currency: Euro (ISO code: EUR)
* Central bank discount rate: 1% (31 December 2008)
* Commercial banks lending rate: NA%
* Stock of money (M1): $847.3 million (31 December 2008)
* Quasi money (with M1 makes M2): $23.15 billion (31 December 2008)
* is part of the Eurozone since 2009
===Statistics===
Statistic / Year 	1999 	2000 	2001 	2002 	2003 	2004 	2005 	2006 	2007 	2008
GDP (million USD)World Bank. "Slovakia: GDP", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-21. 	29 925	28 701	30 296	34 613	45 804	56 032	61 286	69 057	84 242	98 464
Govt. debt (% of GDP)World Bank. "Slovakia: government debt", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-21. 	 	 	 	 	45.719	45.127	36.287	41.881	31.311	36.586
Govt. revenue (% of GDP)World Bank. "Slovakia: government revenue", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-21. 	 	 	 	 	35.606	34.019	30.645	30.087	29.076	28.983
Govt. expenses (% of GDP)World Bank. "Slovakia: government expenses", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-21.	 	 	 	 	36.640	35.784	33.566	33.168	30.552	30.873
Debt to revenue (years) 	 	 	 	 	1.284 	1.327 	1.184 	1.392 	1.077 	1.262
==References==
Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.
==External links==
* Slovakia on Wikipedia
* Central bank of Slovakia
* Country profile (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* BBC country profile
Category:Countries