Life Expectancy at Birth (2020): 76.4
Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) (2017): 12
Neonatal Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births) (2020): 2
Probability of Dying from any of Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Chronic Respiratory Diseases Between Age 30 and Exact Age 70 (%) (2019): 22.1%

Source: World health statistics 2022: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development
goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Neonatal Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019): 2
Infant Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019): 3
Under-5 Mortality Rate (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births) (2019):
  Male: 4; Female: 3

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.”

Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind – Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health, UNICEF, New York, October 2021.

“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.

“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.”

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.

“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.”

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 August 8, 2022 by Doug McVay, Editor.