The chapter discusses the outlook for population development in the Czech Republic between 2008 and 2070. It presents the predicted trends of various demographic components – fertility, mortality, and migration – followed by an overview of the main effects of the overall population forecast.
In the introduction, primary attention is devoted to the methodology used to develop the given forecast, presenting and discussing the cohort-component prediction model and the method used to estimate its parameters. The closing section contains a detailed recapitulation of the main effects of the resulting forecast.