Branislav Šprocha, INFOSTAT – Demographic Research Centre, Slovak Republic
Luděk Šídlo, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic

Pages: 25 – 43

Abstract

Reproductive behaviour in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic has undergone several major transformations in the 20th century and the early 21st century. Over a period of more than 100 years, the character of fertility and mortality has changed several times in a significant way. The aim of this paper is to analyze the development of natality, fertility and mortality in both countries in a long-term aspect and to point out the main shifts that the demographic reproduction in both countries undergone since the establishment of Czechoslovakia to the present.