Central-European exodus put on map – 6 pc of the born Hungarians live abroad

Marian Jakub put on a map the rate of emigrants in different countries and their most common destinations. Of course, it contains some shocking numbers. For example, 43.3 pc of the people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina live abroad. In EU-member Romania’s case, this rate is 17.5% while Hungary is at the bottom of the list with 6%. Since data is based on a 2015 UN report the rates can be even higher currently. Exodus causes serious problems in these countries, most importantly lack of workforce and demographic decline.

Exodus is a trend but losing population is a real threat

As we already reported, millions of Central-Europeans already left or plan to leave their home country to work and live abroad. The reasons are simple: higher salaries, better working environment and escaping from the corruption of the local political and economic elite. Furthermore, these emigrants are mostly qualified, hard-working and young or middle-aged professionals. As a result,

 the whole region struggles with a labour shortage and population decline.

Marian Jakub published a map showing the current state of immigration in Europe last year based on a 2015 UN study. However, she thought that she could do this vice versa and created two maps showing the number of emigrants and their most common destinations. In fact, the map below shows the number of people born in the given country currently living abroad, as a percentage of the current population.

It can be seen that 43.3% of the people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina live currently abroad. This rate is 38.8% in case of Albania, 24.8% in case of Macedonia and 20.4% in Croatia. Thus, it is not surprising that Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic said a couple of days before that