Distillers Czechia
A one-page guide to Czechia for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Prague
- Official languages
- Czech
- Currency
- Czech koruna (CZK)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (UTC+2 summer)
- Area
- 78,871 km²
People
- Population
- 10.9 million (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.2% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 72.9%
- Aged under 15
- 15.1%
- Aged 65 and over
- 21.2%
- Life expectancy
- 80.0 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$391.0 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$35,917 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 2.58% (2025)
- Inflation
- 2.46% (2025)
Climate
Temperate, between oceanic and continental. Warm summers and cold, cloudy, snowy winters; coldest month usually January, warmest usually July. Most rain falls in summer, with heavy-rain days most frequent from May to August.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 11.99 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 51%, wine 22%, spirits 27% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Czech_Republic; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; KVK - importing spirits (EU duty 0%); Seznam Zpravy - Czech spirits consumption falls (Dec 2024); Podnikam.sk - Becherovka for sale (2014); Wikipedia: Becherovka. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.