Some notable statisticts taken from the Czech Statisticial Office[1][2]:
Here's some data I found on the Czech Republic's ethnic and citizenship data:
- The most populous minority is Moravian with a population of 556,641 (5.3%), which I believe to be an indigenous minority (two territories within the Czech Republic are Moravian regions).
- The Moravian population seems to mostly be in the South Moravian Region, with around half of the Moravian population living there.
- As of the 2021 census, the next most populous was Slovak, with 162,578 people (1.5%)
- The third was Ukrainian, with a population of 92,892 (0.9%), although I wouldn't be surprised if this number grew significantly in the following years
- Other notable minorities the census data mentions are:
- Vietnamese (38,723)
- Polish (38,218)
- Russian (34,506)
- Silesian (31,301), a transnational minority from Silesia, a region mostly in Poland, but also a tiny bit in Germany and the Czech Republic
- German (24,632)
- Roma (21,691)
- The most populous foreign citizenships for the Czech Republic are:
- Ukraine, at 574,447 as of 2023, previously peaked at 636,282 in 2022, which was over triple that of 2021 (196,875), which I think supports my idea that the Ukrainian population likely grew after 2021
- Slovakia, at 119,182
- Counties after have significantly lower numbers, with the next few being Vietnam (67,783), Russia (40,990), and Romania (20,469)
I have seen some sources say that the Czech Republic is becoming a pretty big
immigration and refugee destination, and with the number of Ukrainians that seem to
have gone to the Czech Republic in 2022, I could certainly see that.
The Czech Republic has a decently large population of Slovaks, which makes sense
considering the country's history, coming from Czechoslovakia. I think the most
surprising one is Vietnamese, which I don't really know why they have such a significant
population of.
Islamophobia is rather significant in the Czech Republic and is at least partially tied to popularism and/or nationalism, with Czech flags being flown at anti-Muslim demonstrations that "often call for the restitution of national sovereignty. The symbol of sovereignty is sometimes the border, seen as serving to protect against danger from without (Muslim migrants) and as an energetic response to the powerful above ('Brussels')."
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The country's history with Slovakia combined with how many other groups are currently treated I feel shows a potential lean towards nationalism, not just nationalism for the Czech Republic, but possible also for Czechoslovakia.
I could also see the large population of immigrants, especially in recent times, contributing to this as people who already leaned towards nationalism may feel threatened by the large number of immigrants that have rather suddenly appeared in their country.
References:
[1] “Foreigners by citizenship and sex as at 31 December,” Czech Statistical Office. Accessed: July 18, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf?page=vystup-objekt&z=T&f=TABULKA&katalog=31032&pvo=CIZ08&str=v899
[2] “Population by selected ethnicity and regions,” Czech Statistical Office. Accessed: July 18, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://vdb.czso.cz/vdbvo2/faces/en/index.jsf?page=vystup-objekt&z=T&f=TABULKA&skupId=4293&katalog=33522&pvo=SLD210082-KR&pvo=SLD210082-KR&evo=v133_!_SLD21F1008-H2_1
[3] O. Slacalek and E. Svobodova, “The Czech Islamophobic movement: beyond ‘populism’?,” PATTERNS PREJUDICE, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 479-495, 2018, doi: 10.1080/0031322X.2018.1495377.