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Population: 10,228,744 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.1% (male 738,391/female 698,999) 15-64 years: 71.2% (male 3,657,877/female 3,627,493) 65 years and over: 14.7% (male 588,531/female 917,453) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: -0.071% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 8.96 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 10.64 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 0.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.056 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.008 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.641 male(s)/female total population: 0.951 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 3.86 deaths/1,000 live births male: 4.21 deaths/1,000 live births female: 3.49 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.42 years male: 73.14 years female: 79.88 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.22 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 2,500 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 10 (2001 est.).

Nationality: noun: Czech(s) adjective: Czech.

Ethnic groups: Czech 90.4%, Moravian 3.7%, Slovak 1.9%, other 4% (2001 census).

Religions: Roman Catholic 26.8%, Protestant 2.1%, other 3.3%, unspecified 8.8%, unaffiliated 59% (2001 census).

Languages: Czech 94.9%, Slovak 2%, other 2.3%, unidentified 0.8% (2001 census).

Literacy: definition: NA total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $224 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 6.1% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $21,900 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.8% industry: 37.8% services: 59.4% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 5.31 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 4.1% industry: 37.6% services: 58.3% (2003).

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): 2.7% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 8.4% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $57.88 billion expenditures: $62.53 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit; pigs, poultry.

Industries: metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, glass, armaments.

Industrial production growth rate: 9.5% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 79.14 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 58.8 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 24.6 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 9.8 billion kWh (2004).

Exports: $89.34 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 52%, chemicals 5%, raw materials and fuel 9% (2003).

Exports - partners: Germany 33.5%, Slovakia 8.7%, Austria 5.5%, Poland 5.5%, France 5.3%, UK 4.6%, Italy 4.3% (2005).

Imports: $87.7 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 46%, raw materials and fuels 15%, chemicals 10% (2003).

Imports - partners: Germany 30%, Russia 5.7%, Slovakia 5.4%, China 5.1%, Poland 5%, Italy 4.8%, France 4.5%, Netherlands 4% (2005).

Debt - external: $50.2 billion (30 June 2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $2.4 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion funds (2004-06).

Currency (code): Czech koruna (CZK).

Exchange rates: koruny per US dollar - 22.596 (2006), 23.957 (2005), 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 32.739 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.