Prague is the only region where more children were born than residents died
According to data from the Czech Statistical Office, last year only in Prague was the number of live births higher than the number of deceased residents. In other regions, where the population also increased, the population growth was caused by people immigrating to them from another region or from abroad.
“Only in Prague, in addition to migration, most of the population growth is partly driven by the population’s natural currency. In the capital, the number of live births was higher than the number of deaths. Other regions with a population increase gained new residents exclusively due to people moving between regions or from abroad,” said Michaela Němečková from the Department of Demographic Statistics of the Czech Statistical Office.
In 2021, eight of the fourteen regions of the Czech Republic recorded an increase in the number of inhabitants, while six, on the contrary, saw a decrease in population. As in previous years, the largest population increase was in Central Bohemia, by fourteen thousand, and in Prague – by even sixteen thousand. Third in the order is the South Moravian Region, with a great distance, where the increase was only three thousand. On the contrary, the Moravian-Silesian region lost the largest number of inhabitants in the republic – by approximately five thousand people.
The highest average number of children per woman remained for the second year in a row in Vysočina, where it reached the value of 1.95 children per mother. On the other hand, the lowest was in the Karlovy Vary region, namely 1.69 children.
Children born out of wedlock have the lowest long-term representation in the capital city of Prague (40.5 percent in 2021) and the Zlín Region (43.1 percent), on the contrary, the highest in the Ústecký Region (63 percent) and Karlovy Vary Region (61.2 percent). .