IPR analysis: About 300,000 more people live in Prague than according to official statistics
Update: 10/08/2022 11:51
Issued by: 10/08/2022, 11:51
Prague – More people live in the capital than the official population census indicates. According to an analysis by the Institute for Planning and Development (IPR), the official figure of about 1.3 million, or roughly 300,000 more, is being replaced. The number of residents of the institute was determined based on anonymous data from mobile operators. During the day, hundreds of thousands more people will come to work. IPR director Ondřej Boháč told ČTK.
“It turns out that around 1.6 million people live permanently in Prague, and if we include residents of the Central Bohemian Region who commute to Prague every day for work, there are even 1.8 million people. However, only 1.3 million have permanent residence here population,” said IPR director Ondřej Boháč. ČTK is seeking comments from the Czech Statistical Office.
According to Boháč, the increase in population means higher financial demands on the city, which must be provided with, among other things, public transport, parking, apartments, doctors and kindergartens. “So even though infrastructure costs are logically increasing, Prague is still losing out on tax revenues,” added Boháč.
The available data show that despite the recent increase in the number of inhabitants of Prague, this was not always the case. Prague experienced a population decline in the 1990s, for example. On the contrary, the most dynamic growth of the population of Prague was in the years 2003 to 2009 and 2014 to 2019, i.e. during the period of strong economic growth.
According to data from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) approximately 1.28 million people lived in Prague as of December 31, 2021, which was introduced by 1.3 percent more. Last year, 15,993 people came. The increase was mostly caused by people moving to Prague. The average age of the inhabitants of Prague was the lowest in the country and amounted to 41.4 years, which is 1.3 years less than the national average. Among Prague residents, there were the most people with a university degree, and the largest number of foreigners also lived in the metropolis.