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  • Population.......................................................................10,220,911 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................-0.082% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate....................................................8.89 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate..................................................10.69 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................0.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups..........Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other 4% (2001 census)
Member of the European Union since May 2004.
Country Profile

The Czech Republic: From Liberal Policy to EU Membership
After its independence in 1993, the Czech Republic became home to tens of thousands of economic migrants. But as Dušan Drbohlav of Charles University reports, tighter restrictions and new laws in accordance with EU standards have not resolved the problems of illegal and transit migration.

Czech Republic page on the World Migration Map
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Neighboring Countries

Germany
Austria
Poland
Slovakia
Other Resources

Czech Statistical Office
http://www.czso.cz

Office of the Czech Government
http://wtd.vlada.cz/eng/aktuality.htm

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.czechembassy.org

Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
http://www.mpsv.cz/en

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
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