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Czechoslovakia DEMOGRAPHY
Population
Data published by the Czechoslovak government in 1986 showed
a January 1, 1986, population of 15,520,839 and a 1985 population
growth rate of 0.3 percent a year. The annual rate of growth in
the Czech Socialist Republic, which contained about two-thirds of
the population, was 0.05 percent, and in the Slovak Socialist
Republic, 0.73 percent. In 1984 life expectancy was sixty-seven
years for men and seventy-four years for women. About 26 percent
of the population was under the age of 15, and 17 percent was
over the age of 60. There were 104 females for each 100 males
among the population as a whole
(see
fig. 10).
At the start of 1986, the population density was
approximately 121 persons per square kilometer. The most densely
settled geographic region was Moravia, which had about 154
persons per square kilometer. The figure for Bohemia was about
120, and for Slovakia, about 106
(see
fig. 11). The major cities
and their estimated populations in January 1986 were as follows:
Prague, 1.2 million; Bratislava, 417,103; Brno, 385,684; Ostrava,
327,791; Kosice, 222,175; and Plzen, 175,244 (see
table 2,
Appendix A). Czechoslovakia remains essentially a society of
small cities and towns, in which about 65 percent of the
population are classified as urban dwellers.
Data as of August 1987
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