Publication Repertory

According to the final census data, on 1 October 2022, there were 9 603 634 people living in Hungary, 98% of them Hungarian citizens. Since the previous census in 2011, the population has decreased by 334 thousand, while the number of older age groups has increased. Employment has increased significantly in line with the labour market restructuring. Education levels have continued to improve and more people speak foreign languages.

On 1 October 2022, Hungary had a population of 9.6 million and 4.6 million dwellings. The former is 3.4% less and the latter 4.3% more than in the previous census. By 2022, housing density has been further reduced. The average floor area of occupied dwellings continued to increase, a higher proportion of them had all modern conveniences compared to the 2011 Census, and nearly three quarters had wired internet in 2022.

Hungary’s population was 9,604 thousand on 1 October 2022 according to preliminary data for the Census. The most, 10,709 thousand people lived on the present area of Hungary in 1980, since when the number of inhabitants has continuously decreased. The main reason for this is natural decrease: owing to the ageing age structure, 464 thousand more people have died than have been born since the previous Census. This decrease was lowered by an immigration surplus of 131 thousand people – the majority arriving from neighbouring countries. Hungary’s dwelling stock consisted of 4,593 thousand dwellings.

In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, and gave the impetus to the integration of the concept of sustainable development into national and global policies. In Hungary, the National Sustainable Development Council (NFFT, established in 2007) developed the Hungarian National Sustainable Development Framework Strategy, which was adopted by the Parliament in 2013. The framework strategy aims to provide a nationwide, long-term guide for individual and community action. Compared to the strategy of the European Union or the UN SDGs, the Hungarian framework strategy interprets the concept of sustainability much more narrowly. In this interpretation, sustainable development policy is primarily a long-term resource management activity in which it distinguishes four resources: human, social, natural and economic resources.

Inequalities in the situation and possibilities of women and men, which can be measured in a number of fields, depend significantly on the structure of the economy of and the level of employment and earnings in a particular country. We collected in the pocket-book the main indicators that show the statistically describable differences between the situation of women and men. Retrospective time series allow to monitor changes over time. And data on European countries in some chapters provide an opportunity to make international comparisons.

Now we continue the publication of the results of the microcensus with the detailed demographic data. In this publication, we present the latest data on the age structure of the population, its composition by sex, the characteristics of population groups of different marital status, the current fertility status of women, the composition of the foreign population living in Hungary and the characteristics of the population by residence. We analyse the changes having occurred since the last census in 2011. In addition to the textual description illustrated with figures and maps, time series and regional data broken down by regions and counties are also available in the rich annex of tables on our website.
English language data tables are available in Excel to enable users to make their own calculations based on the published data.

The first publication containing data from Microcensus 2016 provides the information collected on the basic questionnaire. The main characteristics of the population regarding demography, educational attainment, employment, household and family situation, as well as the main features of the housing stock are presented. The publication is richly illustrated with graphs and maps. As the annex of the publication approx. 1000 data tables are also available on the website of HCSO grouped by counties, and for the most important data detailed on district level.
English language data tables are available in Excel to enable users to make their own calculations.

The Hungarian Central Statistical Office conducted the 15th census of Hungary in October 2011. Nearly 40 thousand enumerators visited about 4.4 million dwellings in order to collect data on the social, demographic and economic characteristics as well as on the housing conditions of the population in Hungary. Processing and publishing census data is a process of several years. Our present publication shows the changes in the population number and in the most important data of the dwelling stock.