Czech Republic Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Costs for Consumers
Health System Expenditures
Health System Financing
Czech Republic COVID-19 Policy
Health System Personnel
Health System Physical Resources and Utilization
Long-Term Care
Health Information and Communications Technologies
Medical Training
Pharmaceuticals
Wasteful Spending
Political System
Economic System
Population Demographics
People With Disabilities
Aging
Social Determinants & Health Equity
Health System History
Health System Challenges
Life Expectancy at Birth, 2022: 78.13
Infant Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 2.35
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 2.87
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2023). Data Portal, custom data acquired via website. United Nations: New York. Accessed 12 May 2023.
Life Expectancy at Birth (2019): 79.1
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) (2017): 3
Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) (2020): 2
Probability of Dying from any of Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Chronic Respiratory Diseases Between Age 30 and Exact Age 70 (%) (2019): 14.3%
Source: World health statistics 2022: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development
goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
Neonatal Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019): 2
Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019): 3
Under-5 Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019):
Male: 4; Female: 3
Note: “Under-5 mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Infant mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 1 year of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Neonatal mortality rate – Probability of dying during the first 28 days of life, expressed per 1,000 live births.”
Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind – Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health, UNICEF, New York, October 2021.
Maternal Deaths Per 100,000 Live Births, 2020: 3
Source: Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
Asthma hospital admission in adults, 2019 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 28.6
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) hospital admission in adults, 2019 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 134.2
Congestive heart failure (CHF) hospital admission in adults, 2019 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 346.7
Diabetes hospital admission in adults, 2019 (Age-sex standardized rates per 100,000 population): 161.8
Source: OECD (2021), Health at a Glance 2021: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ae3016b9-en.
“In 2020, life expectancy at birth in Czechia was 78.3 years, which is 2.3 years below the EU average, although it was among the highest in central and eastern European countries (Figure 1). It increased by more than three years between 2000 and 2020. The gender gap in life expectancy was six years, which is higher than the EU average (5.6 years).
“In 2019, there was a substantial difference between the capital region of Prague and the rest of the country, and smaller variations across regions. For instance, life expectancy for men living in Prague was more than 4.0 years higher than for men living in the Ústecký region.”
OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2021), Czechia: Country Health Profile 2021, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.
“Previous increases in life expectancy between 2000 and 2019 in Czechia can be attributed mainly to reductions in mortality from leading causes of death.
“Notably, the standardised death rate from circulatory diseases decreased by almost 40%, reflecting in part the concentration of highly specialised cardiology and stroke care into centres set up in 2011 (see Section 4). However, circulatory diseases still accounted for over 40% of all deaths in Czechia in 2019, while cancer accounted for another 25% (Figure 2). Lung cancer remained the most frequent cause of death by cancer. Diabetes is another notable cause of death in Czechia: its standardised death rate is the fourth highest across the EU.
“In 2020, COVID-19 officially accounted for about 12,000 deaths in Czechia (9.2% of all deaths), rising to 30,400 by the end of August 2021. By then, the COVID-19 mortality rate was almost 80% higher than the EU average (2,843 per million compared with 1,591 in the EU). The broader indicator of excess mortality suggests that the direct and indirect death toll related to COVID-19 in 2020 might have been even higher (Box 1).”
OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2021), Czechia: Country Health Profile 2021, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.
Health Systems Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide reliable statistics and other data from authoritative sources regarding health systems in the US and sixteen other nations.
Page last updated May 12, 2023 by Doug McVay, Editor.
