Русская версияThe Czech population will be ageing more dramatically than in many other EU countries.
At present people over 65 make up less than 15 percent of the Czech population, while in 52 years it will be over one-third.
This trend will also require higher budget expenditures on care for the elderly.
The demographic development in other former-communist countries in central and east Europe is similar.
The situation in the neighbouring Slovakia is to be even worse than in the Czech Republic.
By 2060, the number of Slovak inhabitants is to decrease from the current 5.4 million to 4.5 million, that is by some 18 percent, compared to the 8-percent decrease in the Czech Republic.
Slovakia, along with Poland, is to have the oldest population in Europe in 52 years when the share of people over 65 is to make up over 36 percent of all Slovak inhabitants.
On the other hand, the population in the whole of the EU would not considerably decrease.
Thanks to the influx of foreign immigrants it is to rise from the current 495 million to 521 million by 2035.
However, then it is expected to drop to 506 million by 2060, according to Eurostat.
(Ceske Noviny)
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