Změny ve věkové struktuře obyvatelstva České republiky a jejich možné důsledky

The objective of the thesis is to make a detailed description of the demographic ageing of population. It's a relatively young phenomenon which affects most developed countries in the world as well as the Czech Republic. Not only demographists deal with the problem but also many other experts. At first the thesis describes causes of the population ageing and then it deals with the consequences which bring this phenomenon. It also focuses on the future trend and formulates possible solutions how to reduce negative impacts associated with the demographic ageing. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part is theoretical and defines basic indicators of natality, fertility and mortality which affect the population ageing. Attention is also given to indicators which evaluate age and gender structure for example the economic dependency index. The second part deals with the analysis of these indicators from the end of the Second World War to the present time so it means that this part contains time series of selected demographic indicators and their trend is a demonstration of demographic behaviour changes of the inhabitants. The data were acquired from the Czech Statistical Office and also from the European Statistical Office. The thesis contains the last results of population projection from the year 2009 as well. The population ageing will also continue in the future. The question is how effectively the next governments will cope with it.