Number of foreign workers almost tripled in Hungary!
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New data has been revealed about the number of foreign workers coming to Hungary between 2015 and 2017. Apparently, the number of people coming from outside the EU who got a residence permit increased by 113% in Hungary – an extremely high number compared to other countries.
According to Népszava, there is no other EU member state where people from China, Turkey or Ukraine find it easier to move to than Hungary. As per the article’s findings, eight thousand people moved to Hungary from China in the framework of the government’s bonds program. However, the statistics provided by the Ministry of Interior and the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) seem to show some contradictory numbers. Their report about the number of foreigners residing in Hungary in December last year broken down according to continent, country and sex shows that, at the time, 263 thousand foreigners resided legally in the country for a longer period of time, which about equals the population of Zala county.
According to the table, about 24,000 people came from Asia and about 4,200 came from Africa.
The table focuses on people who lived in Hungary with a legal residence permit for 12 months or longer.
However, some doubt that all the details revealed by the Ministry of Interior and the statistical office are true in all regards. For instance, the Ministry of Interior stated on another forum that between 2013 and 2017, 15,754 people came to Hungary from China thanks to the government’s bonds program. This clearly does not corroborate with the 7,700 Chinese people that the first statistics suggest, thus leading people to believe that certain details were kept hidden, such as the effects of the bonds program.