Hungary produces record population decline in 2020
The rate of natural decline in the population increased in 2020, with a 3.4 percent rise in births and a 7.7 percent increase in deaths compared with the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.
In the period, 92,233 children were born, 3,040 more than in the year before, while 139,549 people died, 9,946 more than in 2019. The population loss for 2020 was 47,316, representing a 17 percent increase from 2019.
In December alone, there was a 44 percent increase in the number of deaths and a 7.9 percent decrease in the number of births compared with the same period of 2019. The population loss was 8,974 in December last year, a 162 percent increase from December 2019.
Meanwhile, the number of marriages increased in 2020: 67,301 couples tied the knot, 2,033 more than in 2019.
The positive balance of international migration reduced the population decrease resulting from natural decline, and estimates based on the 2011 census showed that the population of Hungary was 9,731,000 at the end of 2020, KSH said.
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Prime Minister – Victor Orban, in the past two years in a speech to the Nation, correctly referred to the fact, that if we do not increase our birth rate as a country, we could in time perish.
Death rate is still disproportional to births which is a concern.
Does this decrease the average life span of Hungarians or are we living extended lives ?
Think this means we are passing on younger.
On a lighter more joyous relaxed note, the American actress Mae West, a reputation amongst other things she was known for, did come out with some humorous “one liners” – joke expressions at times.
Is this one applicable to Hungarian males ?
A reminder in kind ?
West – in a movie she made, in a scene with a handsome young male, looked him in the eye after they had been in a private intermate conversation and said to him :
“Is that a pistol in your pocket or the real thing.”
Could this be the urgent need of the Hungarian males, get things out of our pocket and fire a few bullets ///
Apologize – if it insults readers, but in these difficult and challenging times we all live, we must not forget to smile stay united and lose.
The Sun will come up To-morrow.
Solution is simple: young immigrants are needed. Preferebly from Africa, Asia, South America, whose people prove to have high fertility rate.