Czechia
Everything Palanor holds about Czechia, in one place: 212 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
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The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $391 billion (2025); record high since 1990; 1y +12.7%.
- Real GDP growth: 2.58% (2025); 46th percentile since 1991; highest since 2022; 1y +1.33 pts.
- Consumer price inflation: 2.46% (2025); 43rd percentile since 1992; 1y +0.02 pts.
- Unemployment: 2.83% (2025); 27th percentile since 1991; highest since 2017; 1y +0.23 pts.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 47.4% of GDP (2025); 15th percentile since 1990; 1y −0.07 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: 5.85% of GDP (2025); 76th percentile since 1990; 1y −0.4 pts.
Country Posture
What Czechia’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 2.6 |
| Growth against its three-year average | 1.2 |
| Change in unemployment | 0.2 |
| Change in the employment rate | -0.4 |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
202568Deep buffers
0 = thin buffers · 100 = deep buffers
Moved most by governance (wgi mean) (down) and reserves, months of imports (up) since the year before.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue (2024) | 3.5 | 42 |
| Budget balance (2024) | -2.8 | 49 |
| Reserves, months of imports | 7.6 | 82 |
| Current account | 0.6 | 75 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | 1.08 | 87 |
| External debt | — | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | 2.5 |
| Change in inflation | 0.0 |
| Currency move against the dollar | -5.9% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | 1.02 |
| Private credit, three-year change (2024) | -4.0 |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | 0.0 |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Country Schemas
Where Czechia is in its cycles
Where Czechia sits in eight long cycles, each read from published statistics against a method fixed before any reading was computed. A stage describes; it is not a rating, and no stage is better or worse than another.
- Development stage
High mass consumption98% · 2025
Pre-take-offTake-offDrive to maturityHigh mass consumption20002025
- Demographic stage
Declining95% · 2025
High stationaryEarly expandingLate expandingLow stationaryDeclining20002025
- Debt cycle stage
Early cycle93% · 2025
Early cycleLeveragingLate cycleDeleveraging20002025
- External balance stage
Debt repayer94% · 2025
Immature debtorMature debtorDebt repayerImmature creditorMature creditorCredit disinvestor20002025
- Export structure stage
Complex exporter56% · 2025
Commodity-reliantDiversifyingManufacturing exporterComplex exporter20002025
- Structural pressure
Low98% · 2025
LowBuildingHighAcute20002025
- Middle-class stage
Affluent99% · 2025
Pre-middle-classEmerging middle classMiddle-class majorityAffluent20002025
- Electoral cycle
Mid-term90% · 2026-10
Post-electionMid-termPre-election2021-112026-10
Passport reach
Where a Czechia passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Czechia itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
36.6%rank 5 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 30 destinations in full, 6 at half.
Recorded changes
- 2025-04-02United Kingdom · visit: Visa-free → Online travel authorisation source
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Czechia’s economy runs on
In 2025, household spending was 47.4% of GDP, government consumption 20.0%, investment 26.8% and net exports +5.8% (exports 67.0%, imports 61.1%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF’s outlook for Czechia
The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further. Since the previous edition the IMF cut its growth forecast for this year by 0.4 percentage points (Palanor calculation).
| Measure | 2025 | 2026 IMF f’cast | 2027 IMF f’cast | 2031 IMF f’cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real GDP growth% | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Inflation, average consumer prices% | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| Unemployment rate% of labor force | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn | 391.8 | 428.0 | 447.6 | 519.7 |
| GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn | 657.5 | 692.2 | 727.4 | 847.6 |
| GDP per person, US dollarsUS$ | 36,288 | 39,614 | 41,514 | 48,634 |
| Current account balance% of GDP | 0.7 | -1.9 | -1.6 | -0.6 |
| Government gross debt% of GDP | 44.2 | 45.8 | 47.4 | 55.3 |
| Government net debt% of GDP | 29.8 | 31.3 | 32.8 | 39.9 |
| Government overall balance% of GDP | -2.1 | -2.7 | -3.0 | -3.8 |
| Government primary balance% of GDP | -1.5 | -2.0 | -2.3 | -3.1 |
| Government net interest paid% of GDP · Palanor calc. | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor. Net interest paid is a Palanor calculation: the IMF's primary balance minus its overall balance.
Charts
The headline series
Discourse
How often S&P 500 companies name Czechia
1.0% list it in the risk factors of their latest 10-K. Names only, counted by fixed rules set before any document was read; a mention says the country came up, not why.
Company graph
Companies headquartered in Czechia
Palanor’s company graph holds 128 entities headquartered here, 1 with a listed ticker (GLEIF headquarters address, else legal address).
- DATZ WORLD HOLDINGS CORP.BOTX · Las Vegas
Signals
Every series about Czechia
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 212 in the Library.
Growth and output10 of 54
- Czechia · GDP · USD bn (current)record high since 1990; 1y +12.7%$391bn2025
- Czechia · GDP per Capita · PPP USDrecord high since 1990; 1y +5.0%60,487 usd2025
- Czechia · Real GDP Growth · % y/y46th percentile since 1991; highest since 2022; 1y +1.33 pts2.58%2025
- Czechia · Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added · % of GDP23rd percentile since 1993; 1y +0.0509 pts1.95% of GDP2025
- Czechia · Country Strength68th percentile since 1993; highest since 2020; 1y +0.9%68.3 index2025
- Czechia · Industry (incl. Construction) Value Added · % of GDP5th percentile since 1993; lowest since 2021; 1y −0.5 pts28.7% of GDP2025
- Czechia · Manufacturing Value Added · % of GDP5th percentile since 1993; lowest since 2022; 1y −0.46 pts19.4% of GDP2025
- Czechia · Services Value Added · % of GDP95th percentile since 1993; highest since 2021; 1y +0.622 pts60.8% of GDP2025
- Czechia · GDP per Person · €record high since 1995; 1y +8.0%31,880 € per person2025
- Czechia · Household Net Financial Assets · % of disposable incomerecord high since 1995; 1y +3.61 pts197% of disposable income2025
Prices4 of 6
- Czechia Consumer Price Index (OECD)record high since Jan 2010; 1y +2.5%159.2 index2026-09-01
- Czechia Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)54th percentile since Jan 2011; highest since Apr 2026; 1y +0.25 pts2.5% y/y2026-09-01
- Czechia Purchasing Power Since 2019 (100 = January 2019)record low since Jan 2019; 1y −2.4%67.32026-09-01
- Czechia · Inflation · CPI % y/y43rd percentile since 1992; 1y +0.02 pts2.46%2025
Jobs and people at work6 of 7
- Czechia · Unemployment Rate (OECD Harmonised, Monthly)26th percentile since Jan 1993; 1y +0.1 pts3.2% of labour force2026-08-01
- Czechia Unemployment Rate (Monthly, Eurostat)33rd percentile since Jan 2000; 1y +0.1 pts3.2%2026-08-01
- Czechia · Female Labor Force Participation · %96th percentile since 1990; 1y −0.2 pts53.5%2025
- Czechia · Male Labor Force Participation · %record low since 1990; 1y −0.37 pts67.5%2025
- Czechia · Unemployment Rate · %27th percentile since 1991; highest since 2017; 1y +0.23 pts2.83%2025
- Average annual hours worked · Czechia74th percentile since 1993; highest since 2000; 1y +1.0%1,823.6 hours2025
Money, rates and credit2 of 3
- Czechia 10-Year Government Bond Yield (Monthly)86th percentile since Apr 2000; highest since Nov 2022; 1y +0.563 pts4.91%2026-08-01
- Czech National Bank Total Assets · % of Czechia GDP77th percentile since Jan 1993; highest since Oct 2024; 1y +0.0426 pts43.5% of GDP2026-01-01
Stock market and listed companies2
- Czechia Share Prices (OECD, 2015 = 100)100th percentile since Jan 1994; 1y +20.4%276.72026-09-01
- Czechia Share Prices, Change Over a Year (OECD)72nd percentile since Jan 1995; 1y −24.03 pts20.4% y/y2026-09-01
Government and debt10 of 19
- Czechia · Public Social Spending: Total (% of GDP)93rd percentile since 1990; highest since 2021; 1y +0.53 pts22.1% of GDP2024
- Czechia · Budget Balance · % GDP (central govt)52nd percentile since 1993; highest since 2019; 1y +1.80-2.77 pct_gdp2024
- Czechia · Interest · % of Revenue (central govt)83rd percentile since 1993; highest since 2012; 1y +0.05 pts3.48%2024
- Czechia · Budget Balance · % GDP66th percentile since 1995; 1y −0.12-2.15 pct_gdp2025
- Czechia · Government Debt · % GDP85th percentile since 1995; highest since 2015; 1y +2.1%50 pct_gdp2025
- Czechia · Government Spending · % GDP63rd percentile since 1995; lowest since 2019; 1y −0.1%43.2 pct_gdp2025
- Czechia · Net Interest · % GDP76th percentile since 1995; highest since 2015; 1y +22.3%0.81 pct_gdp2025
- Czechia · Net Interest · % of Government Spending73rd percentile since 1995; highest since 2016; 1y +0.34 pts1.87%2025
- Czechia · Net Interest · USD bn (PPP)record high since 1995; 1y +28.9%$5.35bn2025
- Czechia · Primary Balance · % GDP73rd percentile since 1995; highest since 2019; 1y +0.03-1.34 pct_gdp2025
Trade and capital flows4 of 5
- Czechia · Tourism Intensity: Nights per Resident (annual)record high since 1990; 1y +3.2%5.422025
- Czechia · Current Account · % GDP83rd percentile since 1993; 1y −63.5%0.62 pct_gdp2025
- Czechia · Net International Investment Position, % of GDP (IMF)73rd percentile since 1995; 1y −3.29 pts-10.3% of GDP2025
- Czechia · International Tourist Arrivalsrecord high since 2003; 1y +2.6%37,202,000 arrivals2019
Energy and resources10 of 19
- Czechia · Household Electricity Price (incl. taxes) · € per kWh83rd percentile since Jan 2007; lowest since Jul 2022; 1y −9.3%0.29 € per kWh2026-01-01
- Czechia · Business Electricity Price (incl. taxes) · € per kWh80th percentile since Jul 2007; lowest since Jan 2022; 1y −9.4%0.2 € per kWh2026-01-01
- Czechia · Bioenergy Share of Electricity Generationrecord high since 2000; 1y +0.65 pts8.04% of generation2025
- Czechia · Carbon Intensity of Electricityrecord low since 2000; 1y −3.1%401.4 gCO2e/kWh2025
- Czechia · Coal Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −1.20 pts35.2% of generation2025
- Czechia · Electricity Generation13th percentile since 2000; 1y +3.6%75.4 TWh2025
- Czechia · Gas Share of Electricity Generation87th percentile since 2000; highest since 2021; 1y +0.21 pts5.41% of generation2025
- Czechia · Hydro Share of Electricity Generation25th percentile since 2000; lowest since 2018; 1y −1.36 pts2.29% of generation2025
- Czechia · Nuclear Share of Electricity Generationrecord high since 2000; 1y +1.58 pts42.4% of generation2025
- Czechia · Other Fossil Fuels Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.49 pts0.2% of generation2025
Conflict and geopolitics4 of 10
- Czechia · Governance · WGI six-dimension mean87th percentile since 1996; lowest since 2021; 1y −2.5%1.08 index2025
- Czechia · Political Stability · WGI35th percentile since 1996; lowest since 2022; 1y −6.3%1.02 index2025
- Czechia · Regulatory Quality · WGI39th percentile since 1996; lowest since 2016; 1y −5.2%1.07 index2025
- Czechia · Rule of Law · WGIrecord high since 1996; 1y +2.3%1.17 index2025
Aid in and out2
- Czechia · Foreign Aid (Official Development Assistance) · US$ billions68th percentile since 2015; lowest since 2021; 1y −21.3%0.44 US$ billions2025
- Czechia · ODA as % of GNIrecord low since 2018; 1y −0.04 pts0.12% of GNI2025
Migration4 of 6
- International Migrant Stock: Czechia (UN)record high since 19901,025,199 people2024
- International Migrants as a Share of Population: Czechia (UN)record high since 19909.55% of population2024
- U.S.-Born People Living in Czechia (UN)record high since 19907,462 people2024
- Change in Migrant Share of Population Since 2000: Czechia (UN)3.312024
AI stance and technology3 of 5
- Czechia · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitant95th percentile since 1993; 1y −0.2%536.22024
- Czechia · R&D Spending · % of GDP70th percentile since 1995; 1y unchanged1.82% of GDP2024
- AI User Share: Czechia (Microsoft AI Diffusion)1y +5.20 pts31.2% of people aged 15-642026-06-30
Climate and the physical world6 of 8
- Czechia CO₂ Emissions (Global Carbon Budget)58th percentile since 1860; lowest since 1954; 1y −9.1%75.6 Mt CO₂2024
- Czechia Cumulative CO₂ Emissions (Global Carbon Budget)record high since 1860; 1y +0.6%12.3 Gt CO₂2024
- Czechia · Arable Land · % of land42nd percentile since 1993; highest since 2010; 1y +0.02 pts32.7% of land area2024
- Czechia · Forest Area · % of landrecord high since 1993; 1y +0.13 pts38.4%2024
- Czechia · Renewable Freshwater · m³ per person7th percentile since 1993; 1y −1.6%1,2322022
- Czechia · PM2.5 Exposure · µg/m³record low since 1990; 1y −0.9%14.1 µg/m³2020
Health and living standards10 of 13
- Czechia · Life Expectancy at Birth · yearsrecord high since 1960; 1y +0.2%80 years2024
- Czechia · Antidepressants: Daily Doses per 1,000 Peoplerecord high since 1980; 1y +4.6%78.82024
- Czechia · Anxiolytics (Anti-Anxiety Drugs): Daily Doses per 1,000 Peoplerecord low since 1980; 1y −2.0%9.82024
- Czechia · Sleeping Pills (Hypnotics and Sedatives): Daily Doses per 1,000 People94th percentile since 1980; 1y +0.5%21.42024
- Czechia · Access to Electricity · % of populationrecord high since 1990; 1y unchanged100%2024
- Czechia · Human Development Index · UNDPrecord high since 1990; 1y +0.4%0.92 index2023
- Czechia · Basic Drinking Water Access · % of populationrecord high since 2000; 1y unchanged98.7%2024
- Czechia · Safely Managed Drinking Water · % of population64th percentile since 2000; lowest since 2015; 1y −0.01 pts98.1%2024
- Czechia · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of populationrecord low since 1992; 1y unchanged0%2023
- Czechia · Undernourishment · % of populationrecord high since 2001; 1y unchanged2.5%2024
Sentiment and attention1
- Czechia · Search Attention71st percentile since Sep 2021; 1y −21.9%25 index2026-09-20
More about this country1 of 17
- Czechia · Exchange Rate per US Dollar (IMF)23rd percentile since Jan 1993; 1y −1.0%20.9 per USD2026-08-01
Peers
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