Sick-leave duration by diagnosis in Czechia

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How long sick leave lasts by diagnosis group in the Czech Republic. Figures come from the open data of the Czech Social Security Administration (ČSSZ) and are cumulative from the start of the year to the latest reported quarter. For each group you get the average length of a single case, the same period a year earlier, and total volumes.

The longest sick leave is for tuberculosis (184 days per case), the shortest for respiratory diseases (12 days) – a gap of over 170 days.

#1184.4 daysTuberculosisAvg. duration per case (days)
#1311.6 daysRespiratory diseasesAvg. duration per case (days)
Tuberculosis184.4 daysMalignant neoplasms168.9 daysPregnancy and childbirth85.9 daysMental disorders82.3 daysNervous system diseases67.2 daysCirculatory diseases64.9 daysMusculoskeletal diseases64.7 daysInjuries and poisonings55.7 daysSkin diseases30.9 daysGenitourinary diseases29.3 daysOther diseases26.4 daysDigestive diseases24.5 daysRespiratory diseases11.6 days
# Avg. duration per case (days) Previous year (days) Cases Total days
1 Tuberculosis 184.35 163 26 4,793
2 Malignant neoplasms 168.87 178.89 4,573 772,251
3 Pregnancy and childbirth 85.89 86.81 5,474 470,137
4 Mental disorders 82.27 84.74 17,451 1,435,624
5 Nervous system diseases 67.16 70.52 9,922 666,362
6 Circulatory diseases 64.91 68.56 15,158 983,975
7 Musculoskeletal diseases 64.74 66.98 101,693 6,583,858
8 Injuries and poisonings 55.71 57.08 52,126 2,903,731
9 Skin diseases 30.91 32.1 8,236 254,538
10 Genitourinary diseases 29.29 29.58 22,140 648,465
11 Other diseases 26.38 25.94 75,468 1,990,726
12 Digestive diseases 24.52 26.57 42,977 1,053,634
13 Respiratory diseases 11.55 11.54 316,110 3,650,544

Methodology

Figures come from the open data of the Czech Social Security Administration (ČSSZ), the dataset of work-incapacity indicators by sex and diagnosis (licensed CC BY 4.0). Values are cumulative from the start of the year (as of 31 March 2026); the average case length is total incapacity days divided by the number of cases. Year-on-year comparison uses the same period of the previous year (the same quarter). The source link is shown on every row.

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