Prague, Dec 30 (CTK) – Life expectancy has increased by seven months in the Czech Republic over a single year and it is 76 years for men and 82 years for women now, according to the statistical yearbook 2015 released by the Czech Statistical Office (CSU).
Men´s life expectancy rose by 4.2 years and women´s by 3.4 years in the past 15 years.
The rise has been caused by modern medicine, healthy lifestyle as well as a cleaner environment than in the past. The society has been ageing both due to the rising life expectancy and a lower birthrate.
Ageing was the most significant demographic change in the past 25 years, according to experts.
In 2010, people over 65 let made up 15.5 percent of inhabitants in the Czech Republic, while last year, it was almost 18 percent. Children under 14 made up 15 percent out of the population of 10.5 million in 2014.
In 2000, life expectancy for men was 71.6 years, while in 2010 it was 74.7 years. Between 2013 and 2014, it increased by about seven months, to 75.8 years. Women´s life expectancy has risen by 3.4 years to 81.7 years since 2000 when it was 80.6 years.
Not only life expectancy but also the part of life in good health has become longer.
Czech men have a chance of living without being limited by health troubles for more than 62 years on average and women for over 64 years, while ten years ago it was four years less for both genders. Consequently, men and women suffer from health troubles mainly during the last fifth of their life.
Life expectancy has increased by several decades in the past century.
In 1920, it was merely 47 years for men and 50 for women. In interwar Czechoslovakia (1918-38), it rose to 56.5 years for men and 60.8 years for women by 1938. In 1968 it was 67.1 years for men and 73.4 for women. In 1989, when the communist regime collapsed in Czechoslovakia, it was 68.1 years for men and 75.4 for women.
