Average age of Czech population grows by over 5.5 years in quarter century

The average age of inhabitants of the Czech Republic has risen by five years and seven months to 42 since 1990, the year after the fall of communism, according to figures just released by the Czech Statistics Office. While in 1990 there were 1.3 million people in what is now the Czech Republic aged 65 or more, last year that figure was 1.9 million. There are also fewer children in the country: last year there were 1.6 million, compared to 2.2 million a quarter of a century ago.

Author: Ian Willoughby