Main article: Czech Republic
2023: Life expectancy - 79.8 years
2022: Excess mortality due to COVID-19 - 15.5%
2021: Highest death rate recorded since World War II
In 2021, 139,600 people died in the Czech Republic. This is the largest number of deaths in the entire post-war history of the country, and more than 10 thousand more deaths than in the first year of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Such official figures were published in March 2022.
According to the Czech Statistical Office, after a 15% increase in the number of deaths in 2020, in 2021 the number of deaths in the Czech Republic increased by another 8% on an annualized basis. The largest number of deaths was recorded in the first quarter of 2021. The monthly number of deaths peaked in March (16,800), the second highest was January (16,200) and the third highest was February (13,800). In these months, 39-63% more people died than the average over the past five years before the COVID-19 pandemic (2015-2019). However, the death toll at the end of 2021 was also well above average in November (12,700, 43% above average) and December (13,700, 42% above average).
Despite these indicators, according to the results of the 2021 census and the subsequent ratio, the population of the Czech Republic at the beginning of 2021 amounted to 10.494 million people, and at the end of the same year it was 10.516 million; the total increase reached 21.9 thousand people. The population growth during 2021 occurred only due to the positive balance of international migration, which amounted to about 50 thousand people, which is 23 thousand more compared to 2020 and is the highest figure since 2009. A total of 69.2 thousand people immigrated to the Czech Republic (13.5 thousand more compared to 2020) and, conversely, the number of emigrants amounted to 19.2 thousand people (9.5 thousand less compared to 2020).[1]
2020: 14.5% increase in deaths, to 129,100
In mid-February 2021, the Czech Statistical Service published a report that showed the number of deaths in the Czech Republic increased by 15% year-on-year in 2020. This is the highest annual increase in mortality since 1945, when this figure increased by about 14.5%. In 2020, 129,100 citizens died in the republic, which is 1.2% of the population with a total of 10.71 million people.
According to the statistical department, in the Czech Republic in 2020, an average of 2,477 residents died every week. For comparison, in 2019, an average of 2,155 deaths were recorded weekly in the country. The increased mortality affected primarily people aged 75 to 84 years, and to a greater extent men than women. The Zlin, Karlovy Vary and Olomouc regions have the highest average annual increase in the number of deaths, while Prague and Pilsen are the least affected.
According to the statistical office, the number of deaths almost did not increase until September 2020, but at the end of the year there was a sharp increase in mortality due to the second wave of the pandemic and complications. coronavirus infections Europe The Czech Republic has been one of the worst-hit countries, with November (15,700 deaths), October (14,200) and December (14,000) the deadliest months in 2020. In total, 1,045,132 people were infected with coronavirus in the country during the pandemic, and the number of deaths of citizens with a confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus was 17,497.
CZSO analyst Terezie Styglerova noted that life expectancy in the Czech Republic in 2020 decreased for both men and women, and began to correspond to the situation in 2013, "throwing the country back seven years."[2]