Population and vital events

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The performance of Hungary’s economy surpassed the previous year’s level by 0.3% in the 1st-3rd quarters of 2025. The increasing performance of the services sector and construction as well as growing consumption had a positive impact on GDP. These impacts however have been subdued by the setback of the industry and agriculture, the continuously subdued investment activity. Retail trade volume continued to rise, foreign demand at accommodation establishments increased, too.

According to preliminary data, 5,582 children were born and 9,686 people died in November 2025. The number of births lessened by 11% and that of deaths by 9.3%, while the number of marriages rose by 6.2% compared to the same month of the previous year.

The number of permanent migrants increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, and then it decreased significantly in 2022 and especially in 2023, but increased again in 2024. During the pandemic, migration was directed from larger settlements to smaller ones; however, from 2023, there was a migration gain in the capital city, while the gains in the villages declined significantly.

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic trends, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data in some 500 tables, charts and maps. In the chapter devoted to earnings and incomes, it is a novelty compared to previous years that net earnings in which allowances and types of exemptions are accounted for, too, came into focus from 2019. In the number of employees, people working in working time shorter than 60 working hours per month are also taken into account. In addition, the theme of environment is completed with areas declared world heritage sites by UNESCO.

A new sub-page has been added to the HCSO website, more than 400 yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections, a total of a hundred thousand pdf format pages close to 150 thousand excel tables and several thousand static and interactive graphs and maps are available for download. The sub-page offers the possibility of filtering these yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections by reference year, serial name, format (PDF, XLS) and supplements (graphs, maps). Users may compile their own list of publications based on the year- and pocketbooks, data collections, adequate to their interests.

In 1989, the United Nations declared 11 July as World Population Day to raise awareness of the scale of population growth and the implied challenges. Today, the most significant population explosion is taking place in Africa, where the population increased 6.7-fold between 1950 and 2024; currently, 18% of the world’s population lives there. The United Nations predicts that by 2100, Africa will account for 37% of the world's population, while Asia's share is expected to decline from the current 59% to 45%.

Hungary’s GDP increased by 0.5% amid global challenges in 2024. The performance of goods-producing industries lessened, while that of service-providing ones rose, which shows the duality of economic trends. Household consumption picked up, which was considerably encouraged by the purchasing power of earnings growing again with the inflationary wave calming down. Besides, the data series reveal that the level of employment reached another peak.

In Hungary, fewer children were born in 2024 than a year earlier. The number of deaths also declined, but to a lesser extent than the number of births, so the rate of natural decrease accelerated. A lower surplus of international migration than in the previous year slightly reduced the population decrease, and the country's population fell by 45 thousand people. The number of marriages fell short of the previous year, while the number of divorces slightly exceeded it.