In 2025, Hungary’s population totaled 9.54million. The number of inhabitants residing in Budapest decreased over the past years, measuring at **** million as of January 1, 2025. The population of other towns and villages also showed a slight decrease in recent years. Permanent internal migration increases The number of people permanently changing their place of residence within the country has increased in Hungary lately. Permanent internal migration peaked in 2021 at more than ******* individuals, while, in 2010, this figure stood at approximately *******. In 2024, the number of Hungarians migrating internally totaled *******. Budapest real estate market In addition to the country’s decreasing population, real estate prices in Budapest also contribute to the declining number of Hungarians living in the capital. As of April 2024, the lowest average monthly rental prices were recorded in districts XXIII and XVIII, at approximately ******* forints. By comparison, the highest rental prices were recorded in district V at ******* forints.

Over the observed years, the number of women in Hungary exceeded the number of men. As of January 1, 2025, the country's female population amounted to 4,93 million, with approximately 4,61 million men living in Hungary at the same time.

In 1800, the population of the area of modern-day Hungary was approximately 3.3 million, a figure which would steadily rise in the first two decades of the 19th century, as modernization driven by rising exports of cash crops resulting from the ongoing Napoleonic wars would see Hungary become a major exporter in Europe. The slowing in population growth in the 1920s can be attributed in part to the economic recession which hit Hungary in the years following Napoleon defeat, as a grain prices collapsed, and economic hardship intensified in the country. Hungary would see a small increase in population growth in the 1860s, as the country would merge with the Austria to form Austria-Hungary in 1967. As industrialization would continue to accelerate in Hungary, the country’s population rise even further, reaching just over seven million by 1900.

While Hungary had enjoyed largely uninterrupted growth throughout the 19th century, the first half of the 20th century would see several major disruptions to Hungary’s population growth. Growth would slow greatly in the First World War, as Austria-Hungary would find itself one of the largest combatants in the conflict, losing an estimated 1.8 to 2 million people to the war. Hungary’s population would flatline entirely in the 1940s, as the country would see extensive military losses in the country’s invasion of the Soviet Union alongside Germany, and further loss of civilian life in the German occupation of the country and subsequent deportation and mass-murder of several hundred thousand Hungarian Jews. As a result, Hungary’s population would remain stagnant at just over nine million until the early 1950s.

After remaining stagnant for over a decade, Hungary’s population would spike greatly in the early 1950s, as a combination of a tax on childlessness and strict contraception restrictions implemented by then-Minister of Public Welfare Anna Ratkó would lead to a dramatic expansion in births, causing Hungary’s population to rise by over half a million in just five years. However, this spike would prove only temporary, as the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent resignation of much of the Stalinist regime in Hungary would see an end to the pro-natalist policies driving the spike. From 1980 onward, however, Hungary’s population would begin to steadily decline, as a sharp reduction in birth rates, combined with a trend of anti-immigrant policies by the Hungarian government, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, has led Hungary’s population to fall steadily from its 10.8 million peak in 1980, and in 2020, Hungary is estimated to have a population of just over nine and a half million.

In 2022, District XI was the most populated district in Budapest, with over *** thousand inhabitants in 2022. Foreign citizens preferred District XIII and VIII, as their number reached almost ** thousand inhabitants in these areas.

The gini index in Hungary was forecast to remain on a similar level in 2029 as compared to 2024 with 0.3 points. According to this forecast, the gini will stay nearly the same over the forecast period. The Gini coefficient here measures the degree of income inequality on a scale from 0 (=total equality of incomes) to one (=total inequality).The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the gini index in countries like Slovakia and Slovenia.

In 2022, Budapest's District VI and District V had the highest share of foreign citizens, **** and **** percent, respectively. Other central districts, such as districts VII, VIII, and IX alsohad high shares of people from other nations. The least favored districts by internationals were District IV, XVII, XXII and XXIII, all recording a share below *** percent.

La popolazione totale in Ungheria è stata stimata a 9,6 milioni di persone nel 2024, secondo gli ultimi dati del censimento e le proiezioni di Trading Economics. Questa pagina fornisce - Popolazione Ungherese - valori attuali, dati storici, previsioni, grafico, statistiche, calendario economico e notizie.

As of January 1, 2024, Budapest had the highest number of foreign residents totaling *** thousand. At the same time, Nógrád had the lowest number of foreign citizens among its population.

The empirical dataset is derived from a survey carried out on 25 estates in 14 cities in nine different European countries: France (Lyon), Germany (Berlin), Hungary (Budapest and Nyiregyha´za), Italy (Milan), the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Utrecht), Poland (Warsaw), Slovenia (Ljubljana and Koper), Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), and Sweden (Jo¨nko¨ping and Stockholm). The survey was part of the EU RESTATE project (Musterd & Van Kempen, 2005). A similar survey was constructed for all 25 estates.

The survey was carried out between February and June 2004. In each case, a random sample was drawn, usually from the whole estate. For some estates, address lists were used as the basis for the sample; in other cases, the researchers first had to take a complete inventory of addresses themselves (for some deviations from this general trend and for an overview of response rates, see Musterd & Van Kempen, 2005). In most cities, survey teams were hired to carry out the survey. They worked under the supervision of the RESTATE partners. Briefings were organised to instruct the survey teams. In some cases (for example, in Amsterdam and Utrecht), interviewers were recruited from specific ethnic groups in order to increase the response rate among, for example, the Turkish and Moroccan residents on the estates. In other cases, family members translated questions during a face-to-face interview. The interviewers with an immigrant background were hired in those estates where this made sense. In some estates it was not necessary to do this because the number of immigrants was (close to) zero (as in most cases in CE Europe).

The questionnaire could be completed by the respondents themselves, but also by the interviewers in a face-to-face interview.

Data and Representativeness

The data file contains 4756 respondents. Nearly all respondents indicated their satisfaction with the dwelling and the estate. Originally, the data file also contained cases from the UK.

However, UK respondents were excluded from the analyses because of doubts about the reliability of the answers to the ethnic minority questions. This left 25 estates in nine countries. In general, older people and original populations are somewhat over-represented, while younger people and immigrant populations are relatively under-represented, despite the fact that in estates with a large minority population surveyors were also employed from minority ethnic groups. For younger people, this discrepancy probably derives from the extent of their activities outside the home, making them more difficult to reach. The under-representation of the immigrant population is presumably related to language and cultural differences. For more detailed information on the representation of population in each case, reference is made to the reports of the researchers in the different countries which can be downloaded from the programme website. All country reports indicate that despite these over- and under-representations, the survey results are valuable for the analyses of their own individual situation.

This dataset is the result of a team effort lead by Professor Ronald van Kempen, Utrecht University with funding from the EU Fifth Framework.

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a powerful and widely used approach in inference of population history. However, the computational effort required to discriminate among alternative historical scenarios often limits the set that is compared to those considered more likely a priori. While often justifiable, this approach will fail to consider unexpected but well-supported population histories. We used a hierarchical tournament approach, in which subsets of scenarios are compared in a first round of ABC analyses and the winners are compared in a second analysis, to reconstruct the population history of an oak gallwasp, Synergus umbraculus (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae) across the Western Palaearctic. We used 4233 bp of sequence data across 7 loci to explore the relationships between four putative Pleistocene refuge populations in Iberia, Italy, the Balkans, and Western Asia. We compared support for 148 alternative scenarios in eight pools, each pool comprising all possible rearrangements of four populations over a given topology of relationships, with or without founding of one population by admixture and with or without an unsampled ‘ghost’ population. We found very little support for the directional ‘out of the east’ scenario previously inferred for other gallwasp community members. Instead, the best-supported models identified Iberia as the first regional population to diverge from the others in the late Pleistocene, followed by divergence between the Balkans and Western Asia, and founding of the Italian population through late Pleistocene admixture from Iberia and the Balkans. We compare these results with what is known for other members of the oak gall community, and consider the strengths and weaknesses of using a tournament approach to explore phylogeographic model space.

This statistic shows the biggest cities in Hungary in 2022. In 2022, approximately **** million people lived in Budapest, making it the biggest city in Hungary .

Over the observed period, the share of the Hungarian population above the age of 65 increased year over year. In 2023, people aged between 15 to 64 years old accounted for around 65 percent of the population, while Hungarians above the age of 65 years old made up a further 21 percent.

Between 2010 and 2021, the number of marriages increased in Hungary, peaking at ******* However, the following years recorded a decrease with the number of marriages, totaling ****** in 2024. The average age for getting married for the first time also increased for both men and women. Consequently, in 2023, Hungarian women were ** years old at the time of their first marriage, while men got married when they were nearly ** years old. Same-sex marriages In 2009, Hungary authorized registered partnerships for same-sex couples, granting them nearly all the benefits of marriage. However, same-sex marriage is prohibited by the Constitution of Hungary. According to a survey conducted in 2021, Hungarians from county seats were the most supportive of sam-sex marriage, with a third of them being in favor of it. This figure was somewhat lower among the residents of Budapest with nearly ** percent of them supporting same-sex marriage. Divorces As of January 1, 2024, over ** percent of Hungary’s population was divorced, and over ** percent was married. The number of divorces gradually decreased in Hungary, reaching ****** in 2023 which represents a decrease of ** percent over the past 10 years.