Demographics
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Rank | City | Region | Population | Metropolitan area |
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| 1 | Prague | Prague, the Capital City | 1,272,690 | 2,300,000 | ||||||
| 2 | Brno | South Moravian | 404,577 | 729,510 | ||||||
| 3 | Ostrava | Moravian-Silesian | 310 456 | 1,164,328 | ||||||
| 4 | Plzeň | Plzeň | 170,688 | 380,000 | ||||||
| 5 | Liberec | Liberec | 102,247 | 270,000 | ||||||
| 6 | Olomouc | Olomouc | 100,043 | 480,000 | ||||||
| 7 | Ústí nad Labem | Ústí nad Labem | 100,003 | - | ||||||
| 8 | Hradec Králové | Hradec Králové | 94,242 | - | ||||||
| 9 | České Budějovice | South Bohemian | 93,883 | 190,000 | ||||||
| 10 | Pardubice | Pardubice | 91,073 | - | ||||||
| 11 | Havířov | Moravian-Silesian | 82,679 | - | ||||||
| 12 | Zlín | Zlín | 76,010 | 450 000 | ||||||
| 13 | Kladno | Central Bohemian | 70,178 | - | ||||||
| 14 | Most | Ústí nad Labem | 67,058 | 95,316 | ||||||
| 15 | Karviná | Moravian-Silesian | 59,627 | - | ||||||
| 16 | Opava | Moravian-Silesian | 58,643 | - | ||||||
| 17 | Frýdek-Místek | Moravian-Silesian | 58,193 | - | ||||||
| 18 | Karlovy Vary | Karlovy Vary | 53,737 | - | ||||||
| 19 | Jihlava | Vysočina | 50,760 | - | ||||||
| 20 | Děčín | Ústí nad Labem | 50,620 | - | ||||||
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1857 | 7,016,531 | — |
| 1869 | 7,617,230 | +8.6% |
| 1880 | 8,222,013 | +7.9% |
| 1890 | 8,665,421 | +5.4% |
| 1900 | 9,372,214 | +8.2% |
| 1910 | 10,078,637 | +7.5% |
| 1921 | 10,009,587 | −0.7% |
| 1930 | 10,674,386 | +6.6% |
| 1950 | 8,896,133 | −16.7% |
| 1961 | 9,571,531 | +7.6% |
| 1970 | 9,807,697 | +2.5% |
| 1980 | 10,291,927 | +4.9% |
| 1991 | 10,302,215 | +0.1% |
| 2000 | 10,230,060 | −0.7% |
| 2011 | 10,562,214 | +3.2% |
According to preliminary results of the 2011 census, the majority of the inhabitants of the Czech Republic are Czechs (63.7%), followed by Moravians (4.9%), Slovaks (1.4%), Poles (0.4%), Germans (0.2%) and Silesians (0.1%). As the ‘nationality’ was an optional item, a substantial number of people left this field blank (26.0%). According to some estimates, there are about 250,000 Romani people in the Czech Republic.
There were 436,116 foreigners residing in the country in October 2009, according to the Czech Interior Ministry, with the largest groups being Ukrainian (132,481), Slovak (75,210), Vietnamese (61,102), Russian (29,976), Polish (19,790), German (14,156), Moldovan (10,315), Bulgarian (6,346), Mongolian (5,924), American (5,803), Chinese (5,314), British (4,461), Belarusian (4,441), Serbian (4,098), Romanian (4,021), Kazakh (3,896), Austrian (3,114), Italian (2,580), Dutch (2,553), French (2,356), Croatian (2,351), Bosnian (2,240), Armenian (2,021), Uzbek (1,969), Macedonian (1,787) and Japanese (1,581).
The Jewish population of Bohemia and Moravia, 118,000 according to the 1930 census, was virtually annihilated by the Nazi Germans during the Holocaust. There were approximately 4,000 Jews in the Czech Republic in 2005. The former Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, is of Jewish origin and faith.
Estimates of Czech fertility rate in 2012 are among the lowest in the world at 1.27 children per woman. Immigration increased the population by almost 1% in 2007. About 77,000 new foreigners settle down in the Czech Republic every year. Vietnamese immigrants began settling in the Czech Republic during the Communist period, when they were invited as guest workers by the Czechoslovak government. In 2009, there were about 70,000 Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. In contrast to Ukrainians, Vietnamese come to the Czech Republic to live permanently.
At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was the city with the third largest Czech population, after Prague and Vienna. According to the 2006 US census, there are 1,637,218 Americans of full or partial Czech descent.
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