Shocking statistics: 1 million Hungarians already left the country
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According to OECD estimates, the number of Hungarian emigrants who left the country in the past decade in order to live somewhere else either permanently or temporarily is closing in on 1 million. It is much harder to say how many have returned, so we do not have data related to this. Nevertheless, it seems like there are now at least 600,000 Hungarians living in Europe, reports portfolio.hu.
Still leaving
Emigrating is still more or less continuous, but it has slowed down a little in 2016. According to OECD’s International Migration Outlook 2018, 85,000 Hungarians were emigrating in 2016, while this number was closer to 99,000 in 2015.
We could also take a look at what happened in the last decade. Every year on average 65,000 Hungarians left the country between 2006-15. We can add to this number all the people who left immediately after our country joined the EU, plus the 85,000 form 2016 and an estimate from 2017 (numbers are not yet known). All in all, we are probably above 900,000 emigrants.
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The future of Eastern Europe
These statistics do foreshadow not only the future of Hungary but also the future of other Eastern European countries. The most shocking is probably the 419,000 people who left Romania in just one year. On average, 336,000 Romanians leave their country every year, 282,000 emigrate from Poland, 125,000 from Bulgaria, 128,000 from Ukraine and 76,000 from Croatia every year.
At the current rate, Hungary will have only about 6,000,000 people by 2070. Not only will there be less people, the people in Hungary will be much older. The lack of people and an aging population will have very significant negative impact on Hungary’s economy as well as national security. If this trend is not dramatically changed soon, Hungary may cease to exist in 200-300 years.
No surprise young intelligent people leave Hungary. A once flourishing country turned bacwards by a totalitarian government feigning to be democratic. No person in his right mind would like to rise his children in such a hell.