Czech Republic 
Facts
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.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Mass-circulation), Prague
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/
Czech Republic in the News
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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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