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“It is confirmed: the Czechs are disappearing,” writes daily Mladá Fronta DNES upon the publication of a report on demographic changes by the Czech Statistics Office (CSU).
Nine decades from now, the population will have shrunk by 25 percent, from 10.52m today to 7.7m. Furthermore, the average age will be 50, an increase of nine years. This is a natural evolution, according to the report, and corresponds to trends in the societies of Western and Northern Europe: women having fewer children because they have trouble juggling their family and professional lives, and longer life spans in general, due to healthier lifestyles and improved medical care.
The report points out that these changes will have a major impact on the labour market, which will have to move from the current model, based on reducing salary costs, to one that maximises the employment rate.
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