Population and vital events

The dissemination database’s data groups for settlements and for Budapest districts were updated with further data, referring to 2020, so settlement- and district-level 2020 data on resident population by sex and by age group, as well as on live births, deaths, marriages and internal migration among others are available from 7 September.

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In July 2021, 8,153 children were born and 9,632 people died according to preliminary data. Compared to July 2020, the number of live births decreased by 5.9% and that of deaths by 1.7%. 9,605 couples got married, which was 28% more than in the same period of the previous year. In terms of the trends of vital events in the last twelve months, i.e. between August 2020 and July 2021, the number of births was 0.2% lower, while that of deaths 24% and the number of marriages 10% higher than one year earlier.

141 thousand people died in Hungary in 2020, a more than 11 thousand larger number of persons than a year earlier. The most – nearly 66 thousand – people died owing to diseases of the circulatory system according to the underlying cause of death, which was a rise on earlier years. The number of people having died of tumorous diseases (32.5 thousand people), considered as the second most frequent cause of death, hardly changed compared to one year earlier (–0.6%). 8,981 people lost their lives due to Covid-19, also emerging in Hungary in March 2020.

In 2020 the coronavirus pandemic largely influenced vital events, primarily including the number of deaths and divorces and the direction of changes in residence. The number of deaths increased significantly and that of births slightly; therefore, natural decrease rose by 20% compared to previous year. Taking the 9,100 person surplus of international immigration and emigration into consideration, the population of the country fell by 39.6 thousand. The number of marriages increased by 3.1%.

Somewhat fewer children were born in Hungary in 2019 than a year earlier, but the total fertility rate increased. The number of deaths decreased, so the rate of population decrease slowed down. The number of marriages was the highest in 29 years, the balance of marriages became positive again. The annually published demographic yearbook includes detailed data on the composition of the population, on births, marriages, divorces, deaths, and the characteristics of migration.