Czech state budget · outturn, approved plan and outlook

Czech state budget

Twenty-five years of revenue and expenditure, the approved 2026 budget, a precise spending breakdown and an ageing-impact model.

Follow the money flows ↗MF ČR · ČSÚ · ČSSZ · MPSV · 2001–2045
2025 actual deficit−290,7CZK bn
2026 approved deficit−310,0CZK bn
People aged 65+ per 100 people aged 20–6449,6medium variant · 2045
Change in population 80++72 %2025–2045
01 / The full 2026 budget

Revenue and expenditure. The full picture.

Every koruna in the approved state budget, in one view: CZK 2,117.8bn in revenue against CZK 2,427.8bn in expenditure. Select a slice to open its complete detail.

Revenue2 117,8CZK bn · 100% of sources
Deficit−310,012.8% of expenditure is not covered by revenue
Expenditure2 427,8CZK bn · 30 purposes
A / Sources

Revenue structure

7 complete categories
B / Uses

Expenditure structure

30 purposes in 6 groups

What exactly is included: the approved 2026 state budget including EU funds and financial mechanisms. Revenue and expenditure use the same total scope; individual spending purposes are rounded to CZK 0.1bn.

02 / Budget over time

Revenue and expenditure over time

Actual cash outturn for 2001–2025 and the approved 2026 budget. Switch nominal koruna values to 2025 prices to compare periods without inflation distortion.

Active year2026 · approved

Scope of this series: State budget of the Czech Republic · national cash methodology · excludes municipal and regional budgets · excludes gross public-corporation revenue.

A

Revenue × expenditure

RevenueExpenditureApproved 2026
Structure over time

How the budget mix changed

A consistent classification across the series shows which revenue sources and expenditure types have grown since 2001.

B

Revenue structure

tax detail · contributions · other
C

Expenditure structure

benefits · operations · investment
03 / Where the money goes

Expenditure by purpose and chapter

Purpose shows which public need is funded. Chapter shows which authority manages the money. They are two classifications of the same budget, so we show them side by side.

Scope matters: the purpose breakdown covers the full CZK 2,427.8bn including EU funds and financial mechanisms. The Ministry of Finance chapter comparison excludes EU/FM and totals CZK 2,287.6bn. The difference is not missing expenditure.

Total expenditure—including EU/FM
Pensions——
Five largest purposes—share of all expenditure
EU/FM and scope difference—vs chapters excluding EU/FM
08 / The state as owner

Public companies and the state budget

The 2024 register combines publicly controlled companies, public universities, hospitals and seven health insurers. The strategic top 20 is highlighted above a filterable table of registered organisations.

Complete public employment frameworkČSÚ · 2015–2024 · FTE 1 112 290

How many people work across the public sector — government, schools, hospitals, local authorities, infrastructure and public corporations — with overlapping sources kept separate.

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Accounting boundary: neither turnover nor profit of these entities is added to state-budget revenue. Only an actually remitted dividend, profit share or other payment is budget revenue; subsidies and capital injections flow in the opposite direction.

Sum of profits—CZK bn · available statements
Sum of losses—CZK bn · available statements
Net result—CZK bn · available statements
Revenue / turnover—CZK bn · available statements

Totals for all entities with an available 2024 result.

Most profitable strategic entitiesTOP 20

Enterprises have a working sector and an international peer group. Fair comparisons will use ROA, margins, debt, investment intensity and output per employee only within the same economic function.

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Register of selected categories · 2024

Companies, universities, hospitals and health insurers

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EntityTypePublic tier / systemTop lineResultNet marginData
—Top line means company turnover, CSUIS revenue and insurer cash receipts. Insurers show the cash balance rather than profit; their cash flows are excluded from accounting totals. A missing statement is not zero.
06 / Healthcare

Money flow
in the health system

Healthcare is not a single budget chapter. Premiums, state payments, insurer reimbursements and hospital accounts are connected, but each layer has a different scope and reporting year.

Mind the scope: health insurers administer public health insurance. Hospitals have different founders and legal forms; they are not one public institution.
Sources / revenue—
Healthcare expenditure—CZK bn per year—
Recipients / costs—
07 / Hospital benchmark

Hospitals compared
with similar peers

Select a publicly controlled hospital with an available 2024 statement. Compare it with organisations of a similar size or with the same level of public owner.

Registered hospital entities—public control
Comparable 2024 statements—positive revenue and costs
Median revenue—comparable sample
Median margin—result / revenue

The comparable sample contains 97 contributory organisations with an available individual VZZ statement. Joint-stock companies without a comparable open statement are not benchmarked; missing data is not zero.

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Out of CZK 100 revenue
—CZK of costs

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What this benchmark does not say: a higher margin does not by itself mean better care. Patient mix, specialised medicines, capital grants and a teaching-hospital role materially change the economics. This is financial orientation, not a quality ranking.
05 / Demographic model

Pensions, health and care outlook

The model links the CZSO age projection with pensions, public health insurance and the care allowance. The default settings isolate the pure demographic effect.

CZSO variant
65+ / 20–64—2045
Population 80+—change vs 2025
Annual system costs · 2045—loading the 2025 baseline…
Pension balance—CZK bn · 2045
01

Age structure

million people
02

Pressure by system

2025 = 100
03

Annual system expenditure

level in CZK bn · 2025 prices
04

Pension account: contributors vs recipients

CZK bn at 2025 prices

How to read the model: In 2025, pension expenditure starts at CZK 700.1bn, not at zero. ‘0%’ in the control means zero annual real cost growth per person only; total expenditure still changes with demographics. The retirement age is phased in linearly over ten years. Healthcare and care weights are scenario assumptions, not a CZSO forecast.

04 / International context

Comparison of benchmark countries

The Czech state budget is complemented by an IMF-harmonised comparison of Czechia with its fiscal reference countries. This has a different scope from the national state budget, so the data are kept separate.

Top 5 per continent + CzechiaIMF WEO · nominal GDP 2024

Common boundary: all countries here use general government, not their national state or federal budget. Each profile states the included subsectors; market public corporations are outside this metric.

E

Expenditure

6 countries
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook · April 2026
F

Country profile

G

Balance × debt

2024
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook · April 2026
09 / Data & methodology

Sources and definitions

01

Czech budget

State-budget cash outturn for 2001–2025 and the approved 2026 budget. National methodology, CZK bn.

02

Fiscal perimeter

Every series states its institutional scope. The state budget, general government and public corporations are separate, non-additive layers.

03

2026 expenditure

The purpose structure includes EU/FM; all 47 chapters are compared without EU/FM. The scopes are visibly separated.

04

International benchmark

IMF WEO, general government, shares of GDP. Intra-sector transfers are consolidated; market public corporations are excluded.

Ministry of Finance: approved 2026 budget ↗Ministry of Finance: expenditure by purpose ↗CZSO: population projections ↗CSSA: pension-account statistics ↗IMF WEO ↗