Statistická ročenka Olomouckého kraje 2003 - Český statistický úřad

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REGIONThe Olomoucký Region is located in the central part of Moravia and extends also to its northern part.As for the territory administration it forms together with the Zlínský Region the area of Central Moravia(NUTS 2). It consists of five districts (Jeseník, Olomouc, Prostějov, Přerov and Šumperk). On theterritory of the Olomoucký Region the following were established: 13 administrative districts ofmunicipalities with extended competence and 19 administrative districts of municipalities withcommissioned local authority. The Olomoucký Region borders in the north with Poland (the border is104 km long), in the east it borders with the Moravskoslezský Region,inthesouthwiththeZlínskýRegion and Jihomoravský Region and in the west with the Pardubický Region.As for geography, the Region is divided to the northern mountainous part (the Jeseníky mountainswith the highest point Praděd 1 492 m above sea level), while the southern part of the Region consistsof the Haná lowland. The Morava River flows through the Region's territory; on its water level near toKojetín in the Přerov District the lowest point of the Region lies (190 m above sea level). TheOlomoucký Region offers a great variety of natural points of interest. Many tourists visit the Protectedlandscape area of the Jeseníky mountains with the largest Moravian peatbog Rejvíz and HighWaterfall (Vysoký vodopád), which is 45 m high, water reservoir and the Dlouhé Stráně power plant onthe top of a hill and other scenic places. Interesting are also floodplain forests in the Protectedlandscape area Litovelské Pomoraví with many endangered kinds of plants and animals. There arealso many caves in the Olomoucký Region: Javoříčko Caves (Javoříčské jeskyně), Mladeč Caves(Mladečské jeskyně) andZbrašov aragonite caves (Zbrašovské jeskyně).Total area of the Region is 5,158.75 sq km, which is 6.5% of the total territory of the Czech Republic.The non-agricultural land with high percentage of forestland prevails in the Jeseník District andŠumperk District (52.1%), while the land of the Prostějov District, Přerov District and Olomouc Districtis used mainly for agriculture - arable land is prevailing (62.8%).Population of the Olomoucký Region lives in 394 municipalities of which 26 have a status of town. Inthese towns, 57.9% of population live. The statutory town is the Olomouc regional city, which had asat 31 December 2002 101,624 inhabitants. Most municipalities (88.1%) are connected to the publicwater supply, one third of the municipalities (32.0%) have a sewerage connected to the sewerageplant. Gas is supplied to 83.0% of municipalities. What still remains unsolved is the anti-floodsprotection so that the situation from 1997 cannot repeat (in that year Moravia suffered fromdevastating floods). Values of specific emissions do not reach the average values of the CR, so theenvironment can be marked as the less damaged. Mountain areas and foothills have excellent airquality and are important sources of drinking water.Since 1994 the population of the Olomoucký Region has been decreasing. It was caused primarily bylow number of births (5,667 in 2002) and higher number of deaths (6,680 in 2002) and during the lasttwo years also by the higher number of persons who moved out (4,829 in 2002), which is less thanthose who moved in (4,218 in 2002). As at 31 December 2002 population of the Region totalled636,750 inhabitants, i.e. 6.2% of the CR's population. With the number of inhabitants per squarekilometre (123.4) the Region is close to the national average (129.4 persons per sq km). There are, ofcourse, differences within the Region: the lowest population density is in the Jeseník District (58.8persons per sq km) and Šumperk District (95.7 persons per sq km). The same as in the entire CR alsoin the Olomoucký Region the following tendencies can be observed: during the past few years thenumber of children aged 0-14 was decreasing (15.8% from the total number of population as at 31December 2002), while number of population aged 65+ is increasing (13.7% from total population asat 31 December 2002); thus, the average age of population is increasing (39.0 years as at 31December 2002). Also average age of grooms is increasing (27.6 years in 2002) as well as of brides(25.3 years in 2002) at first marriage and number of marriages is decreasing (3,009 in 2002), whilenumber of divorces is increasing (1,866 in 2002). Increasing is also number of children born out ofmarriage (25.0% in 2002) and more than a half of deaths (52.3% in 2002) are caused by diseases ofcirculatory system.The Czech Statistical Office has been carrying out labour force sample surveys already for manyyears in the households of respondents. According to this survey, which complies with definitions andrecommendations of the International Labour Organisation, the Olomoucký Region had in 2002 in total317.3 thousand economically active population aged 15+, of which 286.8 thousand were employedand 30.5 thousand unemployed. Namely due to the different survey methodology the generalunemployment rate (ILO) was 9.6% and it was lower than the registered unemployment rate as at 31December 2002, which reached according to the register of labour offices 12.2%. However, these18Statistická ročenka Olomouckého kraje 2003