An average Slovakian is twice as rich as an average Hungarian

According to hvg.hu, Hungarians’ fortune is way smaller than other nations’ of the region. The most determining factor besides age is whether or not someone has an own apartment.

It turned out from the European Central Bank’s survey that the gap between rich and poor Europeans is getting bigger and bigger. Hungarians are among the nations in the worst conditions.

The survey analysed the financial status of 20 countries – besides the 18 states of the Eurozone, Hungary and Poland also made it into the circle. Our situation is the second worst, we only came before the Latvians. They studied the median net wealth – in other words, the person who would stand in the middle (the number of people richer and poorer than him/her is the same) if people were lined up based on their fortune. By this, the Hungarian median is 26,200 euro.

However, this doesn’t mean that most Hungarians could get this money out of their pockets if they needed it, because, in most cases, the number was increased by the value of apartments, homes. While this indicator is 26.2 thousand euro in our case, it is 57.1 thousand in Poland, 50.3 thousand in Slovakia and 85.9 thousand in Austria.

The latest survey, conducted in 2010, generated quite a scandal in Germany, because it turned out that the Greeks had a greater fortune than Germans, even though they felt like it was their task to save the Greek economy. Since then, the Greek fortune has decreased a lot – the median fell back to 65 thousand from 105 thousand – but they still come before Germans with 5 thousand euros. Europe’s richest nation is still the Belgian, the indicator is 217 thousand in their case.