POPULATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2012

This article describes the demographic situation in the Czech Republic in 2012 and evaluates it in the context of development since 2005, focusing mainly on the last year-on-year change. The study analyses the decelerating pace of population growth, the process of changing age and marital status structures towards population ageing and the growing share of unmarried. It examines the continuing decreases in nuptiality and mortality, the decline in the divorce rate in the last two years since peaking in 2010 and the stagnation of fertility after its rise in 2002-2008. Migration and abortion rate are also discussed.