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Region Danube river
consists of counties:

Region is situated in the southwest of Slovakia, in the largest lowland of Slovakia, called Podunajská. Southern part of region spreads in the most fertile area of Slovakia, which is called Žitný ostrov. to the northern part interfere uplands. Through this region flows the second european largest river, Dunaj, with its inflows Malý Dunaj, Váh, Nitra, Žitava and Hron. The region touches border to Hungary. In general, it deals about the area very lowland, determined to agricultural production.
Region is very attractive because of its natural merits and offers the utilization not only for agriculture. but also for recreation, tourism, sport and others. It exceeds in density of fluvial system with many thermal sources. However, by the economical aspect, it belongs to the group af regions with measures less than average. More favorable situation is in county Dunajská Streda and Šaľa, where are the measures of economical level around average. By the aspect of production activity belongs this region to below standard in spite of its potencial.
Region Danube river contains cities Dunajská Streda, Gabčíkovo, Hurbanovo, Kolárovo, Komárno, Nové Zámky, Šaľa, Šamorín, Štúrovo, Šurany, Veľký Meder and 172 villages.

Basic data
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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number of inhabitants | 418 077 | 417 455 | 416 909 | 416 354 | 415 955 | 415 652 | 415 048 | 414 473 | 413 439 | 413 423 | 421 134 | 420 879 |
number of unemployed | 33 790 | 33 733 | 29 247 | 26 782 | 21 470 | 13 210 | 9611 | 8466 | 12 656 | 13 895 | 11 338 | 10 200 |
number of long-term unemployed | 15 809 | 16 535 | 15 169 | 13 583 | 10 278 | 5161 | 2880 | 1987 | 2433 | 4411 | 3975 | 3120 |
number of people receiving social benefits | 26 397 | 26 196 | 22 606 | 17 896 | 14 200 | 10 730 | 8193 | 6646 | 6049 | 5475 | 5603 | 5653 |
number of activational workers | 1999 | 1944 | 2013 | 1803 | 1290 | 762 | 428 | 264 | 252 | 235 | 221 | 183 |
unemployment rate | 15.6 | 15.6 | 13.5 | 12.5 | 10 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 6.1 | 6.7 | 5.4 | |
long-term unemployment rate | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 1.9 | |
assignation tax | 85 541 295 | 86 313 564 | 89 030 031 | 98 247 089 | 106 098 015 | 118 676 476 | 129 335 822 | 145 582 558 | 150 369 285 | 144 347 652 | 159 447 754 | |
demographic dependency | 20.8 | 21.4 | 22.0 | 23.0 | 24.1 | 25.3 | 26.4 | 27.7 | 28.8 | 29.3 | 31.1 | 32.1 |


Number of unemployed
rok | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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less than 24 years | 6586 | 5532 | 4609 | 3808 | 2664 | 1475 | 1004 | 917 | 1483 | 1572 | 1224 | 1072 |
25 to 39 years | 14 126 | 12 132 | 10 252 | 9303 | 7441 | 4323 | 3046 | 2648 | 4129 | 4378 | 3577 | 3087 |
40 to 54 years | 12 917 | 11 329 | 10 012 | 9269 | 7530 | 4644 | 3370 | 2951 | 4399 | 4870 | 4019 | 3755 |
55 years and more | 5068 | 4739 | 4374 | 4403 | 3835 | 2768 | 2191 | 1950 | 2645 | 3075 | 2518 | 2285 |

Other regions
- Basic data on Slovak regions
- Labour market indicators of slovak regions.
- Region Bratislava and surroundings
- Region Kopanice
- Region Danube river
- Region lower Vah river
- Region middle Vár river
- Region upper Nitra river
- Region lower Nitra river
- Region Mining cities
- Region Kysuce a Orava
- Region upper Vah river – Liptov
- Region Spiš cities
- Region upper Hron river
- Region Juhoslovenská kotlina
- Region Košice fold and Torysa river
- Region upper Zemplín
- Region lower Zemplín

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Regions of Slovakia - Region Danube river, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/regions-of-slovakia/danube-river

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