Language

Official language
Czech 96%

T-index
0.23%

T-Index ranks countries according to their potential for online sales.

Other languages
Slovak 1.6%. other languages 2.4%

English
High proficiency (EF) – 23 of 112 countries/regions in the world- 19/35 position in Europe.

Demography

Capital: Prague
Currency: Czech koruna
Population: 10,51 m (2021)
Population density: 139/km2

Economy

GDP: 281.78 billion USD (2020)
GDP per capita: 26,821.2 USD ‎(2020) ‎
Exports: $190 billion (2020)

Statistics

Internet users: 90% penetration, 99.66 million
Unemployment rate: 2.8% (2020)
Urbanisation: 73.92% (2020)
Literacy: 99% (2020)

Conventions

Numbering system
Arabic numerals and comma as decimal separator, space as thousands separator

Date format: yyyy-mm-dd / dd-mm-yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00420

Economy

Imports
$165 billion (2020). Broadcasting Equipment ($10.2B), Motor vehicles; parts and accessories (8701 to 8705) ($8.64B), Office Machine Parts ($7.97B), Computers ($5.12B), and Packaged Medicaments ($4.2B), importing mostly from Germany ($42.2B), China ($24.3B), Poland ($15.1B), Slovakia ($8.74B), and Netherlands ($7.41B).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 81% have an account with a financial institution
• 25% have a credit card
• 66% make online purchases

Ease of doing business
It is easy to conduct business (rated 76.3 out of 100) ranked 226th out of 44 OECD and high-income countries ranked 41st out of 190 countries worldwide (2020, World Bank).

Exports
$190 billion (2020).  Cars ($20.8B), Motor vehicles; parts and accessories (8701 to 8705) ($12.6B), Computers ($11.4B), Broadcasting Equipment ($10.2B), and Office Machine Parts ($4.79B), exporting mostly to Germany ($60.6B), Slovakia ($14.2B), Poland ($11.7B), France ($8.89B), and Austria ($7.71B).

Main local online stores
Zalando, Amazon and Saxo Boghandel, eBay, H&M, Bilka, CDON.com, Coop.dk, Elgiganten and DSB.dk.

Economic freedom
‘Mostly free’ (rated 71 out of 100) ranked 15th out of 45 European countries, ranked 21st out of 186 countries worldwide (2022, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal).

Global Innovation Index
Ranked 19th out of 39 European countries, 30th out of 132 worldwide.

The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation
ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.

Media

Media language:
Danish, English

Information channels
A lively commercial broadcasting sector provides stiff competition for public service outlets. Public Ceska Televize (CT) operates several networks, including 24-hour news channel CT24. Public radio, Cesky Rozhlas (CRo), runs national and local stations. The leading private TV channels Nova and Prima broadcast nationally. There are scores of privately-owned radio stations, including Impuls and Frekvence 1. The media operate relatively freely and without undue government constraints, says Freedom House in its 2019 country report. But it says there are concerns about the concentration of media ownership among wealthy business figures and the “potential impact of this on journalists’ ability to investigate commercial interests”.

The press

Lidove Noviny – daily
Mlada Fronta Dnes – daily
Pravo – daily
Blesk – tabloid daily
Hospodarske noviny (Economic News) – financial daily
Respekt – weekly

Television

Czech TV – public
CT 24 – public, news
TV Nova – private
Prima – private

Radio

Czech Radio – public; runs national/regional networks and external service Radio Prague
Frekvence 1 – private, national
Radio Impuls – private, national
Evropa 2 – private, national

News agency

CTK – national news agency
Prague Daily Monitor – news portal, in English

Internet Data

Internet users
90% penetration, 99.66 million

Share of web traffic by device
35.98% mobile phones, 62.63% computers (laptops and desktops), 1.35% tablet devices, others 0.04%

Median speed of mobile Internet connection
43.18 Mbps

Median speed of fixed Internet connection
47.04 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 138.6%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 87.7%

Most popular web search engines
Google (83.19%), Seznam (11.93%), Bing (4.02%), Yahoo (0.61%), DuckduckGo (0.39%), Yandex (0.32%)

Most used social media
Facebook (77.35%), Pinterest (10.36%), Instagram (5.48%), Twitter (3.76%), YouTube (1.72%), Tumblr (0.53%)

Social statistics

Life expectancy
78 yrs (2020)

Average age of the population
43.3 yrs (2020)

Healthcare expenditure
7.83% of GDP

Glass Ceiling Index
53.2 out 100, ranked 25th out of 29 countries.

The glass-ceiling index measures the environment for working women combining data on higher education, labor-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, business-school applications, and representation in senior jobs.

Ethnicity
The Czech Republic is among the most “ethnically homogeneous” countries in Europe (some 95% of the population are ethnic Czechs or “Moravians”).

Gender
Women are considered the “weaker gender” and are treated with particular respect. They command certain privileges in most workplaces and other situations. (This does not mean pay equality. Women are generally still paid less than men).

Graduates (tertiary education)
Among 25-64 year-olds in the Czech Republic, the most common tertiary qualification is a master’s degree, held by 17% of adults compared to 6% for a bachelor’s degree. This is in contrast to most OECD countries where the majority of tertiary-educated adults hold a bachelor’s degree. Overall, the share of 25-64 year-old tertiary-educated adults in the Czech Republic is 14 percentage points below the OECD average (24% compared to 39%). Although tertiary attainment is higher among 25-34 year-olds (33%), it remains below the OECD average.

Religion
The Czechs are one of the most religiously uninvolved people on the planet, a fact supported by all available statistics. Despite the fact that almost half of the population admit that they belong to some faith (namely the Catholic Church), most do not attend church services or follow any religious practices. At the same time, more than 40% of Czechs declare that they are “non-religious” or “atheist”. With only a very few exceptions, this issue has no significance at all in the workplace.