The article offers a synthetic look at demographic development in Czechoslovakia in the period 1919–1937. The focus is on a comparison of nuptiality, fertility, and mortality trends and their changes in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia.

• MeSH
• History, 20th Century MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Marriage statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Mortality MeSH
• Life Expectancy MeSH
• Single Parent statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Birth Rate MeSH
• Vital Statistics MeSH
• Maternal Age MeSH
• Check Tag
• History, 20th Century MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH
• Czechoslovakia MeSH
• Slovakia MeSH

Over the long term the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic have come to exhibit quite similar procreative behaviour. Unlike in the past, when Slovakia had a higher fertility rate, today both it and the Czech Republic rank among the countries with the lowest average number of live-born children per woman. Since 2005 total fertility rate in Slovakia has even been lower than that in the Czech Republic. Very similar trends are observed in the increase in the number of extramarital children, which is at the level of one-third of all live-born children. These children are most often born to women with lower education. Childlessness among women in Slovakia is traditionally somewhat higher than in the Czech Republic, but this fact is offset by more thirdorder births in Slovakia than in the Czech Republic. In an international typology of fertility and the living standard, both states rank with other post-communist countries, with Slovakia more like Poland, and the Czech Republic more like Hungary.

• MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Single Parent statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Birth Rate trends   MeSH
• Vital Statistics MeSH
• Maternal Age MeSH
• Check Tag
• Humans MeSH
• Female MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH
• Czechoslovakia MeSH
• Slovakia MeSH

• MeSH
• Family Characteristics MeSH
• Financing, Organized MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Marriage statistics & numerical data   trends   MeSH
• Illegitimacy MeSH
• Single Parent statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Birth Rate trends   MeSH
• Attitude MeSH
• Reproductive Behavior statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Social Values MeSH
• Vital Statistics MeSH
• Educational Status MeSH
• Women MeSH
• Check Tag
• Humans MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH

• MeSH
• Family Characteristics MeSH
• Adult MeSH
• Financing, Organized MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Marriage statistics & numerical data   trends   MeSH
• Mothers statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Illegitimacy economics   statistics & numerical data   trends   MeSH
• Single-Parent Family statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Single Parent statistics & numerical data   MeSH
• Birth Rate trends   MeSH
• Social Environment MeSH
• Socioeconomic Factors MeSH
• Educational Status MeSH
• Women MeSH
• Check Tag
• Adult MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH