ABSTRACT
According to the first census carried out in the newly formed Republic of Czechoslovakia (ČSR) in 1921, the state had a population of 13,612,424 and covered an area of 140,519 square kilometres. For the development of an independent economy within the boundaries of this Successor State, it was of major significance that, despite only encompassing a fifth of the total area and a quarter of the inhabitants of the former Habsburg monarchy, it contained much more than half of Austria-Hungary's industrial potential and just under half of the workers who had been employed in the empire's industry.
