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The Slovak Republic has been declaired on the January l lh 1993. In spite of the fact that we are rather a new country we have enough courage and capatibility to solve the social and economical problems. We have realized the rapid transformation from the planned to the market economy. Some problems have unexpectadly appeared in the economy and also in the social sphere which influenced the great part of the population. Theese problems have to be solved on behalf of the successfull economical transformation. The article presents three of the main aspects which directly influence the social state of the Slovak Republic population and are the conditions for the successfull economical transformation. Theese are: 1. unemployment, 2. the standard of living and 3. criminality.