Census 2021

Census 2021

Ethnicity

Czech ethnicity was declared by 83.8% of those who completed the question on ethnicity, followed by Moravian ethnicity 5.0% and Silesian ethnicity 0.2%. Of the other ethnicities, Slovak (1.3%), Ukrainian (1.1%) and Vietnamese (0.4%) were the most frequently declared.
The ethnicity question was voluntary, with 31.6% answers not responded, compared to 25.3% in the 2011 Census.
(Note: The data includes only persons with one ethnicity listed.)

in 1991 and 2001 by permanent residence, in 2011 and 2021 by usual residence

Czech Republic

Year of the Census

Total population

by ethnicity1)

Czech

Moravian

Silesian

Slovak

Polish

German

Roma

Russian

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

not stated

1991

 10 302 215 8 363 768 1 362 313 44 446 314 877 59 383 48 556 32 903 5 062 8 220 421 22 017

2001

 10 230 060 9 249 777 380 474 10 878 193 190 51 968 39 106 11 746 12 369 22 112 17 462 172 827

2011

 10 436 560 6 711 624 521 801 12 214 147 152 39 096 18 658 5 135 17 872 53 253 29 660 2 642 666

2021

 10 524 167 6 033 014 359 621 12 451 96 041 26 802 9 128 4 458 25 296 78 068 31 469 3 321 058

1) includes only persons with one ethnicity

In all but two regions, more than three-quarters of those who answered the question declared Czech ethnicity, while in the exceptional Jihomoravský region it was only 62.2% and in the Zlínský region 72.4%. The highest representation of persons of Czech ethnicity was 94.2% in the Jihočeský region and 94.0% in the Královéhradecký region. People with Moravian ethnicity accounted for at least one tenth of the reported nationalities in the regions Jihomoravský (21.6%), Zlínský (15.0%) and Olomoucký (12.4%). As with citizenship, the capital city of Prague differed in the highest proportion of three ethnicities (Slovak 2.3%, Ukrainian 3.0% and Russian 1.6%). (Note: The data include only persons with one ethnicity stated.)


Particular nationalities include persons who stated only one nationality.

Popis tabulky

by usual residence

Census 2021

Ethnicity1)

Population by stated ethnicity

exclusive

in combination with
another ethnicity2)

total2)

Czech

 6 033 014 382 090 6 415 104

Moravian

 359 621 197 020 556 641

German

 9 128 15 504 24 632

Polish

 26 802 11 416 38 218

Roma

 4 458 17 233 21 691

Russian

 25 296 9 210 34 506

Silesian

 12 451 18 850 31 301

Slovak

 96 041 66 537 162 578

Ukrainian

 78 068 14 824 92 892

Vietnamese

 31 469 7 254 38 723

1) other ethnicities and their combinations are listed in the Download section in a file Population by ethnicity and combinations of ethnicities
2) persons who stated two ethnicities are included in both ethnicities

State, Cohesion Region, Region, District, Administrative district of municipality with extended powers, Administrative district of the capital city of Praha, Municipality, City part

 
ULK ZLK VYS STČ PHA PLK PAK OLK MSK LBK HKK KVK JHM JHČ Počet mužů na 100 žen (index maskulinity) 94,0 97,7 99,0
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