Statistical Yearbook – 2024 released

“Modern official statistics uses a number of progressive tools and tries to follow modern trends both in statistical work itself as well as in presentation of data to users. Despite that, the Statistical Yearbook is a good tool for all those who need for their work, study, and responsible decision-making essential and trustworthy information in a concentrated form,” Marek Rojíček, President of the Czech Statistical Office, says.

The issued Yearbook primarily describes statistical events that took place in the year 2023. At the end of 2023, the population of Czechia was over 10.9 million for the first time since the end of the World War II and the positive net migration (94.7 thousand persons) was, after the one in 2022, the second highest in the post-war history of Czechia. In the migration balance, citizens of Ukraine dominated (75.2 thousand), followed by citizens of Slovakia (5.6 thousand), and, for the first time ever, Filipinos (2.1 thousand) ranked third. The year 2023 was further characterised by a considerable twelve percent decrease in the number of marriages. For the first time since 2005, fewer than 100 thousand children (91.1 thousand) were born alive. The life expectancy at birth was growing for the second year already, thus following a positive trend from before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Czech economy faced in 2023 a combination of an influence of increasing external demand, domestic investment activity, and government consumption on the one hand and a continuing decline in household consumption and a negative impact of changes in inventories on the other. This mixture entailed fluctuating of the economy in a zone of stagnation; the gross domestic product (GDP) in total decreased by 0.1% last year. Consumer prices increased by 10.7% (in 2022, it was by 15.1%) and their year-on-year growth was gradually slowing down during the year. The total volume of wages and salaries paid increased in nominal terms by 7.8%, while the total employment increased by 0.8%; however, earnings decreased by 1.2% in real terms as the price level continued to grow.

On the pages of the Yearbook, users will also find, among others, new tables on the digital economy, research and development, education, and social security. Brand new data were brought by the Integrated Farm Survey. A section devoted to crime and justice has also been elaborated newly and with greater detail. Last but not least, the elections to the European Parliament and results of the Olympic Games in Paris should also be noted, while those data already extend to the year 2024.

The Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic is available to all users for free on the website of the Czech Statistical Office.

Contact:
Jan Cieslar
Spokesman of the CZSO
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