Most babies born since 1993

The Czech Republic is seeing the biggest baby boom since 1993, the Czech Statistical Office announced on Thursday. Last year, more than 110,000 babies were born in the country, nearly ten percent more than in the previous year. For the first time in 25 years, the difference between new-born and deceased persons reached 10,000. The number of inhabitants of the Czech Republic has been increasing for five years in a row. In 2007, a record number of foreigners migrated to the country as well – by the end of last year, almost 400,000 foreign nationals lived permanently in the Czech Republic, amounting to 3.8 percent of the population.