POPULATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2013

The article describes the demographic situation in the Czech Republic in 2013 and evaluates it in the context of development in the past decade. However, the main focus is on the last year-on-year change. The study analyses the background to the population decrease that occurred after a ten-year period of increases, the processes of the changing age and marital status structures, trends in nuptiality, the divorce rate, fertility, the abortion rate, mortality (including analysis of cause-of-death mortality), and international migration. The article concludes with a short overview of the position of the CR within the EU in the context of current demographic developments.