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Population, Midyear 2022: 9,967,308
Population Density (Number of Persons per Square Kilometer): 110.10
Life Expectancy at Birth, 2022: 74.96
Projected Population, Midyear 2030: 9,642,912
Percentage of Total Population Aged 65 and Older, Midyear 2022: 20.01%
Projected Percentage of Total Population Aged 65 and Older, Midyear 2030: 20.96%
Projected Percentage of Total Population Aged 65 and Older, Midyear 2050: 27.51%
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2023). Data Portal, custom data acquired via website. United Nations: New York. Accessed 12 May 2023.
Share Of The Population Aged Over 65, 2019: 19.3%
Projected Share Of The Population Aged Over 65, 2050: 27.8%
Share Of The Population Aged Over 80, 2019: 4.4%
Projected Share Of The Population Aged Over 80, 2050: 8.6%
Adults Aged 65 And Over Rating Their Own Health As Fair, Poor, Or Very Poor, 2019 (%): 80.9%
Estimated Prevalence Of Dementia Per 1,000 Population, 2021: 11.3
Projected Prevalence Of Dementia Per 1,000 Population, 2050: 18.8
Source: OECD (2021), Health at a Glance 2021: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ae3016b9-en.
“Life expectancy at birth in Hungary grew from 71.9 to 75.7 years between 2000 and 2020. Despite this, in 2020 life expectancy at birth remained almost five years below the EU as a whole (Figure 1), and lower than in Czechia, Poland and Slovakia. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy fell temporarily by under 10 months between 2019 and 2020, which is in line with the EU average and the lowest among the Visegrád Four countries1.
“On average, Hungarian women live almost seven years longer than men – 79.1 years compared to 72.3 years. This gender gap is greater than that across the EU as a whole; this is largely due to greater exposure to risk factors among men – particularly smoking and excessive alcohol consumption (see Section 3).”
Source: OECD/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2021), Hungary: Country Health Profile 2021, State of Health in the EU, OECD Publishing, Paris/European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Brussels.
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Page last updated May 13, 2023 by Doug McVay, Editor.
