Demographics of Hungary

The Demographics of Hungary is the study of the population and people in Hungary.

Population

Nation

Census year	Population	Change
1949	9,204,799	−
1960	9,961,044	+8.22%
1970	10,322,099	+3.62%
1980	10,709,463	+3.75%
1990	10,374,823	−3.12%
2001	10,198,315	−1.70%
2011	9,937,628	−2.56%

Cities and towns

Main article: List of settlements in Hungary

Budapest is the largest city in Hungary.

Rank	City	County	2011 census	2020 estimate	Change
1	Budapest	Budapest	1,733,685	1,750,216	+0.95%
2	Debrecen	Hajdú-Bihar	211,340	201,112	−4.84%
3	Szeged	Csongrád-Csanád	168,048	160,258	−4.64%
4	Miskolc	Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	167,754	152,901	−8.85%
5	Pécs	Baranya	156,049	141,843	−9.10%
6	Győr	Győr-Moson-Sopron	129,527	133,946	+3.41%
7	Nyíregyháza	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	119,746	116,814	−2.45%
8	Kecskemét	Bács-Kiskun	111,411	110,373	−0.93%
9	Székesfehérvár	Fejér	100,570	96,529	−4.02%
10	Szombathely	Vas	78,884	78,591	−0.37%
11	Szolnok	Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	72,953	70,554	−3.29%
12	Érd	Pest	63,631	69,431	+9.12%
13	Tatabánya	Komárom-Esztergom	67,753	66,141	−2.38%
14	Sopron	Győr-Moson-Sopron	60,548	63,065	+4.16%
15	Kaposvár	Somogy	66,245	60,656	−8.44%

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in Hungary based on the 2011 census.

The most recent census looking at ethnic groups was in 2016.

Population of Hungary in 2016^[1]

Ethnic group	microcensus 2016
	Number	%
Hungarians	9,632,774	98.3%
Romani	309,632	3.2%
Danube Swabians	178,837	1.8%
Romanians	36,506	0.4%
Slovaks	29,794	0.3%
Croats	22,995	0.2%
Russians	21,518	0.2%
Chinese	15,454	0.2%
Turks	11,704	0.1%
Serbs	11,127	0.1%
Ukrainians	10,996	0.1%
Poles	8,245	0.08%
Vietnamese	7,304	0.07%
Greeks	4,454	0.05%
Bulgarians	4,022	0.04%
Slovenes	2,700	0.03%
Rusyns	2,342	0.02%
Armenians	2,324	0.02%
Others	26,349	0.3%
Total	9,803,837

• In this census, people could select many ethnicities. These numbers do not add up to 100.

Romani

The 2011 and 2016 censuses found that the Romani people made up 3.2% of the population. Some estimates say that 7% of the population is Romani. ^[2] Regardless, they are the largest minority in Hungary.

The Romani people originally came from Northern India around the area of Rajasthan and Punjab.^[3]

The county in Hungary with the largest percentage of Romani people is Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. This county is in the north of Hungary and is next to Slovakia.

County	Romani population (2011 census)	%
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County	58,376	8.51%
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg	44,738	8.00%
Nógrád	15,489	7.65%
Heves	19,467	6.30%
Somogy	16,794	5.31%
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok	19,089	4.94%
Baranya	17,585	4.55%
Tolna	9,072	3.94%
Hajdú-Bihar	18,546	3.39%
Békés	9,541	2.65%
Zala	7,283	2.58%
Bács-Kiskun	11,327	2.18%
Pest	20,719	1.70%
Fejér	6,497	1.53%
Veszprém	5,336	1.51%
Komárom-Esztergom	4,371	1.44%
Csongrád-Csanád	5,006	1.20%
Budapest	20,151	1.17%
Vas	2,685	1.05%
Győr-Moson-Sopron	3,511	0.78%
Total[4]	315,583	3.18 %

Danube Swabians

Danube Swabians Donau Shwoveh are a German speaking Minority, the third largest ethnic group in Hungary. The county with the largest percentage of Germans is Baranya, with the Subgroup Stifolder who's Ancestors once came from Fulda (district) arround 1720, with 6.1% according to the 2011 census.

Languages

According to the 1920 census 10.4% of the population spoke one of the minority languages as mother language:

• 551,212 German (6.9%)
• 141,882 Slovak (1.8%)
• 23,760 Romanian (0.3%)
• 36,858 Croatian (0.5%)
• 23,228 Bunjevac and Šokci (0.3%)
• 17,131 Serb (0.2%)
• 7,000 Slovenes (0,08%)

Religions

Religious affiliation in Hungary (2022)^[5]

Denominations	Population	% of total
Catholicism	2,886,619	30
Roman Catholics	2,643,855	28.3
Greek Catholics	165,135	1.7
Protestantism	1,120,485	11.6
Calvinists	943,982	9.8
Lutherans	176,503	1.8
Orthodox Christianity	15,578	0.2
Judaism	7,635	0.1
Other religions	171,174	1.8
Total religions	4,201,491	43.7
No religion	1,549,610	16.2
Did not wish to answer	3,852,533	40.1
total	9,603,634	100.00

Related pages

• List of settlements in Hungary