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Climate

Emissions fell, but then bounced back Czech emissions of greenhouse gases, which are the main cause of climate change, have been falling between 2008 and 2015. However, in the recent years they began to rise again, following the same trend as the rest of the EU.

Soruce: EDGAR

The share of renewables has risen The share of renewable energy sources in final energy consumption in the Czech Republic has risen from 7% in 2004 to almost 15% in 2017. The EU average was 17,5% in 2017. There has been a visible stagnation in Czech renewable energy since 2014, which was due to change in the Czech government’s policy regarding renewable energy support, not due to policy changes at the EU level.

Soruce: Czech Statistical Office, Eurostat

Energy efficiency has improved More than 4300 projects have been realised since 2004 (with the support of 18,1 bn. CZK from the EU sources) in order to increase energy efficiency. Most of these projects focused on insulation of buildings to prevent energy losses. As a results, the energy consumption in the Czech Republic decreased by 3 million GJ a year.

The rate of recycling has increased In 2004 the Czech Republic recycled 5,7% of its communal waste, while in 2017 the recycling rate was at 34,3%.

Soruce: DotaceEU, Czech Statistical Office

Crime

Recorded offences in the Czech Republic dropped steadily in the fifteen years following accession to the European Union.

Soruce: Czech Statistical Office

Whilst solved crimes in the Czech Republic decreased from 2005-2017, it is notable that the decrease was markedly less than the number of overall recorded crimes, suggesting that the efficacy of Czech police in solving general crime increased during this period.

Soruce: Czech Statistical Office

Single market

The benefits of the Single Market to the Czech Republic has been higher than the EU-average, providing substantial benefits such as additional jobs, wealth, prosperity and employment, as evident in the second graph.

Soruce: Am Cham EU

Compared to not having been a member of the EU, and by extension the Single Market, the Czech Republic’s GDP per capita % would be 2.61% lower. Each household would have 942 euro less per household, the country would have 129.000 fewer jobs created, consumption level by household would be 442 euro lower, and the investment level per capita would be 109 euro less.

	Austria	Belgium	Bulgaria	Croatia	Cyprus	Czech	Denmark	Estonia	Finland	France	Germany	Greece	Hungary	Ireland	Italy	Latvia	Lithuania	Malta	Netherlands	Poland	Portugal	Romania	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain	Sweden	UK	EU28
GDP per capita (%)	2.58	2.51	2.26	1.19	1.57	2.61	1.8	3.0	1.71	1.67	2.39	0.94	2.37	1.15	0.52	2.05	2.15	2.83	1.13	2.04	2.04	1.72	2.67	1.93	1.83	1.50	1.30	1.70
∆ GDP per household (€)	2091	2053	247	352	946	942	1900	939	1225	1213	1668	399	606	1332	313	542	544	1,493	967	610	866	343	1066	816	1064	1194	933	1,047
∆ Number of jobs (*1000)	105	113	67	19	5	129	48	18	40	436	936	33	99	22	114	18	28	5	92	323	88	142	64	17	324	70	389	3,644
∆ Investment level per capita (€)	1102	1057	150	187	657	442	912	492	678	668	899	280	298	454	191	331	344	847	432	358	568	211	586	426	618	538	606	590
∆ Investment level per capita (€)	231	213	29	24	44	109	161	109	133	118	178	18	56	135	23	57	53	3,387	88	46	54	34	89	70	84	163	87	95

Soruce: Am Cham EU

Education

What do the students from abroad study in the Czech Republic? In 2017, 44261 students from abroad came to study at Czech universities. This amounted to exactly 22820 students studying Bachelor´s degrees, 17382 studying Master´s degrees, and 4003 studying doctoral degrees. Some 56 came on short term courses.

Soruce: Eurostat

Czechia has the lowest number of youngsters between 15-19 outside employment, education or training and figures bellow OECD average among all groups. While in 2004 5.71% of all 15-19 years-old were in the risk of being socially excluded, in 2016 it was only 2.08% in the Czech Republic.

Soruce: OECD

The Czech Republic has the highest proportion of secondary educated citizens in the EU and the lowest proportion of citizens with education below secondary level. The proportion of tertiary educated Czechs more than doubled over the past 15 years.

Soruce: OECD