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According to the data published by the Czech Statistical Office (CSU), about 15% of employees in the Czech Republic are foreigners. From 2010 to 2019, their share in the country's labor force tripled, according to the portal Expats.cz.
The CSU representative Dalibor Holy says that the employment rate in the Czech Republic cannot grow without foreign labor force. The number of foreign employees since 2010 to 2019 increased by 407,000, while the number of Czech employees decreased by 63,000.
According to the expert, this is due to the fact that the Czech society is aging: the number of elderly people is growing, and the number of economically active age groups is decreasing.
In 2010, about 215,400 foreigners worked in the Czech Republic, which was 5.5% of all workers in the country. As of the end of 2019, 621,900 foreigners were employed in the Czech Republic, which accounted for 14.7% of all 4.23 million employees.
Where do foreigners work? Before the outbreak of the pandemic, 17% of employees in agriculture and forestry were foreigners, compared to just 4% in 2010.
A quarter of employees in accommodation, catering and restaurant services were foreigners a year ago, compared to just 6% 10 years ago. In the construction industry, the share of foreign workers has doubled over the past 10 years from 14% to 28%.
In the field of administrative and support activities, 54% of employees were foreigners in 2019. For comparison, in 2010, only one in ten workers in this field had foreign roots.
In the manufacturing sector, the share of foreign workers increased from 6% to almost 16% over the same period.
