Population development in the Czech Republic in 2015

Abstract

The article describes the demographic situation in the Czech Republic in 2015 and sets it in the context of demographic trends in the past decade. The study analyses the development of individual components of population change and the effects they have on population size and the age and marital structure. A basic overview of the recent trends in cause-of-death statistics is also included. The population of the Czech Republic rose as a result of positive international migration in 2015, and total fertility rate and marriage rates increased as well. But life expectancy at birth for men stagnated and even decreased for women. The total intensity of the divorce rate remained at the 2014 level. The analysis of nuptiality was primarily based on the construction of nuptiality tables; the divorce rate was studied primarily by duration of marriage, and cause of death statistics was evaluated by standardised rates.