Czech Republic 
Facts
Population:
10,264,212 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
16.09% (male 847,219; female 804,731)
15-64 years:
69.99% (male 3,592,984; female 3,590,802)
65 years and over:
13.92% (male 549,538; female 878,938) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.07% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
9.11 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.81 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0.96 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.63 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
5.55 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
74.73 years
male:
71.23 years
female:
78.43 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.18 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.04% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
2,200 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Czech(s)
adjective:
Czech
Ethnic groups:
Czech 81.2%, Moravian 13.2%, Slovak 3.1%, Polish 0.6%, German 0.5%, Silesian 0.4%, Roma 0.3%, Hungarian 0.2%, other 0.5% (1991)
Religions:
atheist 39.8%, Roman Catholic 39.2%, Protestant 4.6%, Orthodox 3%, other 13.4%
Languages:
Czech
Literacy:
definition:
NA
total population:
99.9% (1999 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $132.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $12,900 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
3.7%
industry:
41.8%
services:
54.5% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.3%
highest 10%:
22.4% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.8% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
5.203 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 5%, industry 40%, services 55% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:
8.7% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$16.7 billion
expenditures:
$18 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries:
metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, glass, armaments
Industrial production growth rate:
7.6% (2000)
Electricity - production:
67.642 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
77.8%
hydro:
3.43%
nuclear:
18.77%
other:
0% (2000)
Electricity - consumption:
52.898 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports:
18.744 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports:
8.735 billion kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry
Exports:
$28.3 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 44%, other manufactured goods 40%, chemicals 7%, raw materials and fuel 7% (1999)
Exports - partners:
Germany 43%, Slovakia 8.4%, Austria 6.6%, Poland 5.6%, France 4% (1999)
Imports:
$31.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment 42%, other manufactured goods 33%, chemicals 12%, raw materials and fuels 10% (1999)
Imports - partners:
Germany 37.5%, Slovakia 6.7%, Austria 6.2%, Italy 5.9%, France 5.4% (1999)
Debt - external:
$21.3 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Currency:
Czech koruna (CZK)
Currency code:
CZK
Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 37.425 (January 2001), 38.598 (2000), 34.569 (1999), 32.281 (1998), 31.698 (1997), 27.145 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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http://www.blesk.cz/
(English-language), Prague
http://www.cebd.com/
Prague
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/
Dobry Vecer
(Mass-circulation), Prague
Expres
(Mass-circulation), Prague
Halo Noviny
(Communist), Prague
(Business), Prague
http://www.ihned.cz/
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In a referendum that was widely viewed as a confidence vote in the government, Czechs overwhelmingly endorsed their country’s membership in the European Union at the polls on June 13-14. World Press Review senior editor Andrew Yurkovsky reviews Czech coverage of the vote.
World Press Review senior editor Andrew Yurkovsky profiles Czech historian Vilem Precan
'The persecution of political opponents of the Cuban dictatorship has elicited an unusually unified protest in the Czech Republic,' Erik Tabery writes in Prague's weekly Respekt.
Milan Vodicka, an editor for the Prague daily Mlada Fronta Dnes, imagines what conclusions Kim Jong-Il must be drawing from the Iraq crisis.
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