Mortality rise in Czech Republic in 2020 highest in 100 years

The Czech Republic saw a roughly 15 percent annual rise in mortality in 2020, the highest in 100 years, as a similar rise of 14.5 percent was recorded only in 1945 when the second world war ended, a CTK calculation and the data released on the Czech Statistical Office's (CSU) website show. The preliminary CSU data show some 129,100 deaths in the country last year, which is almost 17,000 more than in 2019, an increase of about 15 percent. This is an exceptionally high difference in a year-on-year comparison in the country's history after 1950, CSU head Marek Rojicek has said.