Life Expectancy at Birth (2019)
  – Male: 76.3; Female: 81.9; Both Genders: 79.1
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) (2017): 3
Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) (2019): 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 2021: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Neonatal Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018): 2
Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018): 3
Under-5 Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2018):
  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: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York.

“Life expectancy at birth increased by four years between 2000 and 2017 (from 75.1 to 79.1 years) and is among the highest of the newer EU Member States. Nevertheless, in 2017, it was still almost two years below the EU average (80.9 years, Figure 1). On average, women live nearly six years longer than men (76.1 compared to 82 years). The gender gap has continuously narrowed since 2000 but is above the EU average (5.2 years).”

Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2019), Czechia: Country Health Profile 2019, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.

“The number of deaths that could have been avoided through preventive or public health interventions has declined steadily in Czechia, and while the preventable mortality rate is better than in most other newer EU Member States, it is still above the EU average (Figure 11). Lung cancer is the main cause of preventable mortality, closely followed by ischaemic heart disease. Behavioural risk factors need to be addressed, particularly bad diet and smoking, which lead to many preventable deaths (Section 3).

“The traditionally strong public health network, which is led by the National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ), targets diseases that can be prevented through immunisation (Box 2) and other communicable diseases. Containing communicable diseases is one issue that has received attention on the political agenda. For example, the steady rise of HIV notifications prompted the development of a new national programme to contain HIV/AIDS (2018–22) and reverse this trend.”

Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2019), Czechia: Country Health Profile 2019, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.

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Page last updated Dec. 6, 2021 by Doug McVay, Editor.