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BASIC FACTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
(September 1998, www.europeanforum.bot-consult.se/cup/czechia)
Population
10,304,302 (Czech Ministry of Interior 1997)
Economic Indicators
GDP: US 52.1 billion (Business Central Europe 1997)
GDP per capita: US 5,340 (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
1996 est.)
GDP per capita (PPP): US 10,870 (World Bank Atlas 1998, est. for 1996)
Inflation rate: 10.0 percent (Czech National Bank, First Quarter of 1998)
Unemployment: 5.5 percent (Czech National Bank, First Quarter of 1998)
Current account deficit: US 2.6 billion (European Intelligence Unit 1997)
Percent GDP of national debt: 44 percent (European Intelligence Unit 1997)
Budget deficit: US 221.6 million (Czech Ministry of Finance 1998)
Economic growth: 1 percent (Czech National Bank, Last Quarter of 1997)
Major ethnic groups
Czechs, 94.4 percent
Slovaks, 3.1 percent
Poles, 0.6 percent
Germans, 0.5 percent
Silesians, 0.4 percent
Romanies, 0.3 percent *
Hungarians, 0.2 percent
Others, 0.8 percent (1991 census of the Czech Republic)
* Of an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Romanies in the Czech Republic, only
32,903 claimed Romani nationality. So the actual percentage is much higher.