“…At the decisive moment of the census, of the total number of permanently residing citizens of the Slovak Republic, residents of Slovak nationality, had the greatest representation (80.7%, i.e., 4,352,775), Hungarian nationality (8.5%, i.e., 458,467) and the Roma nationality (2%, i.e., 105,738). In the inter-census period of 2001-2011, the number of permanently residing Roma residents increased the most in absolute numbers (15,818). The Roma are the only national minority in Slovakia, the members of which do not occupy any territory in Slovakia, and they do not even have a mother country [39].…”