Births fell by 11 percent in June compared with the same month in the previous year in Hungary, while deaths dropped by 7.2 percent, according to preliminary data published by the country’s statistical office (KSH).
Similarly, the number of marriages decreased by 20 percent in the same period. In June 2023, 7,234 children were born, while there were 9,218 deaths. Altogether, 5,736 couples got married, the Daily News Hungary reported.
The natural population loss was 1,984 people compared to ,178 in June 2022. A total of 41,892 children were born between January 2023 and June 2023, 0.3 percent fewer than in the same period of last year.
Altogether 64,642 people died between January 2023 and June 2023, 7.1 percent fewer than in the same period of last year. In the same period, 20,897 couples tied the knot, 30 percent fewer than in the same period of last year.
There were 8.8 live births and 13.6 deaths per thousand inhabitants, the former level with the January-June 2022 period, while the death rate was 0.9 percentage points lower.
The number of Hungarians in Hungary, combined with ethnic Hungarians in Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Austria is less than 11.5 million.
The population decline started last century. Thirty years ago, there were 15 million Hungarians in Hungary and neighboring countries.
The number of Hungarians living outside Hungary is now less than 1.8 million, with just over 1 million in Romania’s Transylvanian region. It was more than 2.2 million in 1990 after communism ended.
Hungary’s population is now about 9.7 million and is predicted to fall below 7 million by 2050.
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