Up to 30% of Foreigners Will Live in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Share of foreigners living in the country could reach up to 30% till 2065. This share reaches 4% in 2008 and it could increase to 7.5% in 2020. The data were published in a study of scientists of the Charles University in Prague. They expect that immigrants will come to the Czech Republic mainly from the Ukraine, Vietnam, China and republics of the former USSR in the future. Nearly 84,000 foreigners moved to the Czech Republic in 2008, which was the same number as during the last thre e years in total. The reason for rising inflow of foreigners to the Czech Republic is mainly possibility to find a job there. Rising Czech economy offers thousands of vacancies.

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