Transport, 2025

In 2025, 20.9 million passengers were carried in railway transport. In comparison with the year before, this is a 25% increase. The total number of passenger-kilometres performed went up by 3% reaching 1,127 million.

Almost 1.6 million passengers travelled through Ljubljana, Maribor and Portorož airports, which was 11% more than a year earlier.

About 160,000 passengers arrived at or departed from Slovenian ports, representing a 12% increase compared with the previous year. The number of passengers travelling on passenger vessels doubled, while the number of passengers on cruise ships increased by 1%.

Slovenian road goods vehicles carried 97.3 million tonnes of goods or 3% fewer than the year before: in national transport 63.8 million tonnes or 3% fewer, and in international transport 33.5 million tonnes or 3% fewer.

19.5 billion tonne-kilometres were performed or 11% fewer: in national transport 2.5 billion or 7% fewer, and in international transport 17 billion or 11% fewer.

More than 17.2 million tonnes of goods were carried by train and 4,295 million tonne-kilometres were performed. Railway goods transport in tonnes and in tonne-kilometres both decreased by 6% over the previous year.

The share of rail goods transport in total inland goods transport was 27.4%, 0.2 of a percentage point lower than the year before.

21.7 million tonnes of cargo were handled at the Port of Koper, the same amount as in the previous year. Of this, 16.3 million tonnes were unloaded and 5.4 million tonnes were loaded.

Compared with a year earlier, airport goods traffic went down by 4% to 11,913 tonnes.

Share of rail goods transport in total inland goods transport, Slovenia

77.2 million passenger vehicles entered or exited Slovenia last year at road border crossings. At the annual level, overall passenger vehicle traffic went down by 0.3%. At the border with Croatia, 34 million passenger vehicles entered or exited the country, which was 3% more than in the previous year. Passenger vehicle traffic also increased at road border crossings with Hungary, where 2.6 million passenger vehicles entered or exited the country, i.e. 1% more. At road border crossings with Austria, traffic decreased by almost 2%. In total, nearly 21 million passenger vehicles crossed this border; the largest decline, by 5%, was recorded at road border crossings with Italy, with 19.7 million such vehicles having entered or exited the country. 

Additionally, 18.1 million goods vehicles entered or exited Slovenia at road border crossings, i.e. almost the same number as a year earlier: 6.8 million crossed the border with Croatia, 4.9 million with Italy, 4.5 million with Austria and 1.9 million with Hungary. Compared with the previous year, the traffic of goods vehicles at road border crossings with Croatia increased by 5%. At other road border crossings it decreased: Hungary by 8%, Austria by 3% and Italy by 1%. 

Road cross-border traffic of vehicles, by type of vehicle, Slovenia, 2025

The share of first registrations of new private cars among all registered private cars in 2025 was 4.5%, 0.3 of a percentage point higher than a year earlier. The renewal rate of private cars (private car fleet) was the highest in the Osrednjeslovenska statistical region (7.3%). It increased the most in Koroška (by 1.3 p.p.) and decreased the most in Obalno-kraška (by 0.6 p.p.).

In 2025, Slovenia recorded the highest motorisation rate (594 registered private cars per 1,000 population) and on average the oldest private cars (11.4 years) so far. Goriška was the statistical region with the highest motorisation rate (668), and on average the oldest private cars (13.4 years).

Last year, used private cars registered for the first time in Slovenia, i.e. those that had already been registered abroad, were on average 6 years old. Since 2008, their average age at the first registration in Slovenia has increased by 1.4 year. In 2025, these cars were on average the youngest in the Savinjska (5.6 years) and the oldest in the Goriška statistical region (6.7 years).

Average age of private cars, Slovenia

At the end of 2025, there were about 1.7 million registered road motor vehicles, 2% more than the year before. National vehicles performed 22.4 billion vehicle kilometres on national and foreign road territory. In one year the volume of traffic of national vehicles went down by 2%. On average 12,830 kilometres were driven last year by a national passenger car.

The volume of traffic also decreased on the Slovenian road network. National and foreign road motor vehicles performed 22.7 billion vehicle kilometres, which was also 2% fewer than the year before.

At the national level, a new indicator has been developed to indicate road traffic per kilometre of road network. In 2025, 0.6 million vehicle kilometres were performed per kilometre of the Slovenian road network. Since 2021, the road traffic has increased by 0.1 million vkm/km.

Tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.