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Life expectancy at birth, 2021: 74.3 years
Infant mortality, deaths per 1,000 live births, 2021: 3.3
Maternal mortality rate, deaths per 100,000 live births, 2020: 15.1

Source: OECD (2023), Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi.org/10.1787/7a7afb35-en.

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Life expectancy at birth, 2021: 74.4 years
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births), 2020: 15
Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births), 2022: 4
Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births), 2022: 2
Probability of dying between age 30 and exact age 70 from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, 2019: 22.1%

Source: World health statistics 2024: monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals: Statistical Annex. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2024. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Last accessed May 28, 2024.

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Neonatal Mortality Rate, 2021: 2
Infant Mortality Rate, 2021: 3
Under-5 Mortality Rate, 2021: 4
Maternal Mortality Ratio, 2020: 15

Note: “Under-5 mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Infant mortality rate – Probability of dying between birth and exactly 1 year of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
“Neonatal mortality rate – Probability of dying during the first 28 days of life, expressed per 1,000 live births.”
“Maternal mortality ratio – Number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births during the same time period (modelled estimates).”

Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2023: For every child, vaccination, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, Florence, April 2023.

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Life Expectancy at Birth, 2022: 74.96
Infant Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 3.31
Under-Five Mortality Rate, 2022 (per 1,000 live births): 4.02

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.

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Maternal Deaths Per 100,000 Live Births, 2020: 15

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“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).”

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“Hungary continues to record one of the highest rates of preventable mortality in the EU. In 2018, 326 in every 100 000 people died from preventable causes – the highest rate of any EU country (Figure 11). The leading causes of preventable mortality are lung cancer, followed by ischaemic heart disease and alcohol-related diseases. High rates of preventable mortality reflect risky health behaviours, such as smoking, which is common in Hungary (see Section 3). Deaths from treatable causes are also relatively high in Hungary.”

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“Fewer than 60% of adults reported being in good health in 2019, which is below the EU average of approximately 70%. In Hungary, and across the EU, people with higher incomes are more likely to report being in good health: 73% of Hungarian people in the highest income quintile reported being in good health in 2019 compared to 47% of those in the lowest (Figure 4). The average figures for EU countries are higher at 79% for the highest income quintile and 58% for the lowest.”

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