Abstract
One of the population development features in Czechia after 1990 was a sharp decline in number of live births. Since 2004 the number of live births has been slightly increasing.
On the regional level, mainly due to suburbanization process, the spatial pattern of regions according to the proportion of children has completely changed. These demographic changes increases demands for social infrastructure, such as elementary school capacities.
This contribution analyses regional changes in proportion of children in age of compulsory school attendance (6-14 years) and its gradation. The spatial autocorrelation method is used, namely Moran's I as a global indicator and analysis LISA, which reveals spatial clusters of similar units as well as outliers.
Shortly after 1990 regions with high proportion of children in compulsory school attendance age were located near the borders and regions with low proportion in the interior. The situation changed first around Prague and later around other big cities and nowadays high proportion of children live in regions around big cities.
Conversely regions with low proportion lie in borderland and in inner periphery.