[Czech Republic] Demography

[kokpit]

So what's the situation looks like, and what about future, shall current young generation get some pensions? Let's discuss

[Kappa21]

Are you in a minus slope?

[kokpit]

^ we will be in near future...

[Kappa21]

Need Kappa?

Your economy seems to be super and it seems reasonable to be there. I dont mind living their.....

how long does it take to commute from the suburbs to the Pranka?
How would u rate Czech Schools?

[FIDEL CASTRO]

Originally Posted by Kappa21

Need Kappa?
How would u rate Czech Schools?

Please don't tell me you are a family man.

[historyworks]

Originally Posted by Kappa21

Need Kappa?

Your economy seems to be super and it seems reasonable to be there. I dont mind living their.....

how long does it take to commute from the suburbs to the Pranka?
How would u rate Czech Schools?

Czech education system is supposed to be about 10-15th best in the world according to OECD (I'd have to find the source again, I read it some time ago).

Commuting in the average CE city is peanuts compared to North American or Australian cities. Everything is compact and they have proper civilised public transport systems.

[kokpit]

Well, this thread should be primarily about demography...
I would kick off with these interesting graphs taken from czech stat. office webpages
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[ov_79]

kokpit:

Interesting charts, thanks for posting .

Kappa21:

We have been in a minus slope since early 90s! The recent small population growth of the country is caused by immigration. The fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world, and I am not sure if even not the lowest (under 1.15 kids per mother I think).

[ov_79]

Kappa21:

Two articles (data 2004):

1. 20 Countries Have Negative or Zero Natural Increase

The latest data from the Population Reference Bureau shows that there are twenty countries in the world with negative or zero natural population growth. This is unprecedented in history!

This negative or zero natural population growth means that these countries have more deaths than births or an even number of deaths and births; this figure does not include the impacts of immigration or emigration. Even including immigration over emigration, only one of the twenty countries (Austria) is expected to grow between 2006 and 2050.

The country with the highest decrease in the natural birth rate is Ukraine, with a natural decrease of 0.8% each year. Ukraine is expected to lose 28% of their population between now and 2050 (from 46.8 million now to 33.4 million in 2050). Russia and Belarus follow close behind at a 0.6% natural decrease and Russia will lose 22% of their population by 2050 – that is a loss of more than 30 million people (from 142.3 million today to 110.3 million in 2050).

Japan is the only non-European country in the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose 21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere 100.6 million in 2050). Here's the list of the countries with negative natural increase or zero negative increase in population...

Ukraine: 0.8% natural decrease annually; 28% total population decrease by 2050
Russia: -0.6%; -22%
Belarus -0.6%; -12%
Bulgaria -0.5%; -34%
Latvia -0.5%; -23%
Lithuania -0.4%; -15%
Hungary -0.3%; -11%
Romania -0.2%; -29%
Estonia -0.2%; -23%
Moldova -0.2%; -21%
Croatia -0.2%; -14%
Germany -0.2%; -9%
Czech Republic -0.1%; -8%
Japan 0%; -21%
Poland 0%; -17%
Slovakia 0%; -12%
Austria 0%; 8% increase
Italy 0%; -5%
Slovenia 0%; -5%
Greece 0%; -4%


2. Country birth rate

Rank Birth rate(births/1,000 pop.)
01 48.30 Niger
02 47.39 Uganda
03 47.02 Afghanistan
04 46.77 Mali
05 45.98 Chad
06 45.62 Somalia
07 44.64 Angola
08 44.38 Congo, Democratic Rep. of the
09 44.22 Liberia
10 44.17 Burkina Faso
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111 15.08 Albania
112 14.47 Ireland
113 14.14 United States
114 14.09 Uruguay
115 13.93 Puerto Rico
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130 11.36 Denmark
131 11.14 Netherlands
132 10.84 Canada
133 10.83 Belarus
134 10.82 Portugal
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152 9.57 Croatia
153 9.47 Japan
154 9.07 Czech Republic
155 9.04 Latvia
156 8.95 Slovenia
157 8.89 Italy
158 8.81 Austria
159 8.62 Lithuania
160 8.33 Germany

[beowulf]

TFR grew to 1.44 last year, but this should only be a temporarily effect of the strong cohorts of Husák's children of the 1970s. Nevertheless, we have experienced the highest growth since 1950s last year with a total increase of nearly 100,000 souls, 80% of this thanks to immigration.

[Norkey]

maybe czech population will be lower in 2050, but there will be lot of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vietnam and their children.. thx to the God there won't be many africans and moslems like in France, Spain or UK..

[X236K]

Originally Posted by Norkey

maybe czech population will be lower in 2050, but there will be lot of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vietnam and their children.. thx to the God there won't be many africans and moslems like in France, Spain or UK..

Makes no sense to do such a long term prediction... too many things may change.

[kokpit]

my contribution to the topic

[Norkey]

(ČTK) Czechs most tolerant of Westerners,least of Romanies-poll
17:44 - 06.05.2008

Prague- Czechs are far more tolerant of foreigners coming from western countries than of those coming from the East, and they show the lowest tolerance for Romanies, according to a poll the STEM agency conducted in April and released said.

Only 12 percent of adult Czech respondents said they would easily accept Romanies as their neighbours, while more than one third said the idea of living next to Romanies is unacceptable to them.

The Czechs have the best relation to Slovaks, the poll has shown.

Asked who they would consider acceptable as their neighbours, most of the respondents named Slovaks, Westerners and Jews.

Almost one quarter of them said living next to Romanies would be unpleasant to them, three in ten said such situation would be difficult to cope with and 36 percent called it absolutely unacceptable.

Only 12 percent said they saw no problem in living next to Romanies.

Ninety-two percent of those polled had nothing against the idea of Slovaks being their neighbours.

Almost four-fifths see no problem in living next to Britons, three-quarters said they would have no problem with the French or Americans, two-thirds said the same about Germans and Jews.

About a half of the respondents said they would not mind Kazakh or Volhynian Czechs as their neighbours, while one-third said living next to these people would be unpleasant to them.

A total of 85 percent of respondents said it would be unpleasant to them, would hardly cope with it or would consider it unacceptable if they lived next to Afghans or Chechens.

Eight in ten Czechs would mind being the neighbours of Arabs. Three-quarters would mind Ukrainians, the Chinese and Vietnamese as neighbours, the poll showed.

"The differences ensue from the [different] geographical and cultural closeness of Czechs to members of various nations and ethnic groups, and also from the historical as well as quite recent experience the Czechs have with them," STEM analysts said.

They said the Czechs widely view Ukrainians, Russians and Vietnamese as a cheap workforce and obscure peddlers forming their own closed communities.

As far as Arabs, Chechens and Afghans are concerned, many Czechs link fears of terrorism with them, STEM found out.

A half of those polled said they believed Czechs approach foreigners without prejudices, while the other half said they doubt this.

The number of foreigners in the 10-million Czech Republic has been increasing. A total of 402,320 legally lived in the country at the end of March.

[Kappa21]

Originally Posted by Norkey

maybe czech population will be lower in 2050, but there will be lot of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vietnam and their children.. thx to the God there won't be many africans and moslems like in France, Spain or UK..

Am i the substitute?
A western, highly educated Jew...
Possibly intrested to revive the 1000+ Year old Czech Jewish Community?

[Kappa21]

Originally Posted by Norkey

(ČTK) Czechs most tolerant of Westerners,least of Romanies-poll
17:44 - 06.05.2008

What are Romanies?

Romanian People?

[vlker]

Only 12 percent of adult Czech respondents said they would easily accept Romanies as their neighbours, while more than one third said the idea of living next to Romanies is unacceptable to them.

It's insane man...Romanies are great people. Much more unbounded and cheerful than czechs. I was in Romania few times and I hadn't a single problem with people.

Btw. in Brno lives many Romanians and Bulgarians working in the IBM or Google. My friend is hiring them a few apartmens

[ov_79]

Originally Posted by Kappa21

What are Romanies?

Romanian People?

Nothing to do with Romania. Romanies = Gypsies. But following the political correction you have to call them Romanies, because they call "Roma" themselves. So the official english name "Gypsies" is supposed to be replaced by "Romanies". In the same way, the official czech name "Cikáni" is in a process of replacing by "Romové" .

Following this logic, you should replace "Czechs" by "Češi" and "Germans" by "Deutsch" (or Deutschies?) in english language.

Welfare creates degeneration. Degeneration creates political corectness...

[ov_79]

vlker:

Romanies means Gypsies, not Romanians. I know some Romanians in Brno too, and they are fine, all of them .

[vlker]

Romanies means Gypsies, not Romanians. I know some Romanians in Brno too, and they are fine, all of them .

Ouch...my mistake...I thought it was about foreigners