The number of migrants from EU countries in the Czech Republic is growing
According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, at the end of October 2015, 464,000 foreigners (excluding refugees) lived in the Czech Republic. More than two-fifths of them are young people aged 20 to 39. Children and adolescents account for 14%, and only 8% of migrants are over 60 years old.
If in 2010 there were 424,300 foreigners living in the Czech Republic, and 13,500 of them (or 32%) were EU citizens, then by 2014 this figure had already reached 445,000 people, 41% of whom came from EU countries. The largest group is Slovaks, whose number exceeded 100,000 in October 2015. In addition, many Germans, Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbs, Britons, and Americans come to the country.
Since 2000, after the tightening of migration policy, about 20,000 Ukrainians have left the country, and by the end of 2015 their number was about 105,000. The Vietnamese diaspora decreased to 60,000 last year. The number of Russians moving to the Czech Republic, on the other hand, is increasing. If five years ago about 32,000 of them lived in the country, then last year it was already 35,000.
At the same time, as Radio Prague notes, the Czech Republic is not a leader in creating a favorable migration climate. According to the MIPEX index, among 38 developed countries, it ranks only 23rd.