Minister: Demographics indicators show significant progress in Hungary

Hungary had the fastest growth in total fertility rate (TFR) in the European Union over the past decade but “we are not yet where we would like to be”, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday, referring to the 5th Budapest Demographic Summit to be held on Thursday and Friday.

Gergely Gulyás told a regular press briefing that in 2010, when the civic government of Hungary received its mandate to introduce new demographics policies, the TFR was 1.23 and it went up to 1.59 by the end of 2021. This represented a 25.6% increase, the largest in the EU over the past decade, he added.

At the same time, there are some difficulties, with the number of women of child-bearing age on the decrease, which makes it all the more important that family policy measures remain effective, he said. Gulyás said the cabinet had assessed a proposal on replacing “city CSOK” subsidies in a first reading on Wednesday.

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