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The aspirations of ethnic minorities had been the pivot of the First Republic's politics. This was no longer the case in the 1980s. Nevertheless, ethnicity continued to be a pervasive issue and an integral part of Czechoslovak life. Although the country's ethnic composition had been simplified, the
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From 1950 through 1983, the Slovak share of the total population increased steadily. The Czech population as a portion of the total declined by about 4%, while the Slovak population increased by slightly more than that. The actual numbers did not imperil a Czech majority; in 1983 there were still
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made up a large proportion of the town and region's population until the late 1980s/early 1990s. Although defined as "Greeks", the Greek Communist community of Krnov and the Jeseniky region actually consisted of an ethnically diverse population, including
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being the most prominent. This population has been found to have had an increasing growth rate that had a declining trajectory. The population density was approximately 121 persons per square kilometre with the highest population density being in
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more than two Czechs for every Slovak. In the mid-1980s, the respective fertility rates were fairly close, but the Slovak fertility rate was declining more slowly.
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was 67.7 years for men and 75.3 years for women. About 23.1% of the population was under the age of 15, and 19% was over the age of 60.
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remained essentially a society of small cities and towns, in which about 65% of the population were classified as urban dwellers.
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The population density in 1986 was approximately 121 persons per square kilometer. The most densely settled geographic region was
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division between Czechs and Slovaks remained; each group had a very similar history, but sometimes divergent aspirations.
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making up two-thirds of the demographic. Amongst this demographic there was also a diverse range of religions with
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that made up the majority of the population in border regions were forcibly expelled after World War II, and
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Following the expulsion of the ethnic German population from Czechoslovakia, parts of the former
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mountain region in northeastern Czechoslovakia, were settled in 1949 by Communist refugees from
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more – Romanies were often counted as belonging to other ethnic group, esp. Hungarians
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was 2.7% in 1985, falling to 1.7% in 1990. Its decreasing tendency was sharper in the
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Czechoslovakia had the following religious proportion of the population at the time:
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in 1987 offered a stark contrast to that of the First Republic (see History). The
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Czechoslovakia had a peak population of 15.6 million, mainly composed of
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had a population of 15.6 million, of which by ethnicity 62.8% were
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community) combined made up the remaining 1.6% of the population.
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