Editing Demographics of Hungary (section)

==Demographic changes in pre-Trianon Hungary (1867–1914)==
===Population and ethnic composition (1869–1910)===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Census data for the Kingdom of Hungary (including Croatia-Slavonia)
|-
! Year !! Total Population<br/>(Hungary + Croatia-Slavonia) !! Hungary Proper<br/>(excl. Croatia-Slavonia) !! Croatia-Slavonia !! Hungarians<br/>(absolute/%) !! Romanians<br/>(absolute/%) !! Slovaks<br/>(absolute/%) !! Germans<br/>(absolute/%) !! Croats/Serbs<br/>(absolute/%) !! Other ethnicities
|-
| 1869 || ~15.4 million<ref>{{cite book |last=Molnár |first=Miklós |title=A Concise History of Hungary |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0521667364 |page=262}}</ref> || ~13.6 million<ref>{{cite book |last=Macartney |first=C.A. |title=Hungary and Her Successors |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1937 |isbn=978-0837156216 |page=489}}</ref> || ~1.8 million<ref>{{cite book |last=Kontler |first=László |title=A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2002 |isbn=978-0333809176 |page=255}}</ref> || ~6.9 million (45%) || ~2.6 million (17%) || ~2.0 million (13%) || ~1.5 million (10%) || ~1.4 million (9%) || ~1.0 million (6%)
|-
| 1880 || ~16.8 million<ref name="Kontler2002">{{cite book |last=Kontler |first=László |title=A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2002 |isbn=978-0333809176 |page=255}}</ref> || ~14.8 million || ~2.0 million || ~7.6 million (45%) || ~2.7 million (16%) || ~2.0 million (12%) || ~1.8 million (11%) || ~1.7 million (10%) || ~1.0 million (6%)
|-
| 1890 || ~17.3 million<ref name="Macartney1937">{{cite book |last=Macartney |first=C.A. |title=Hungary and Her Successors |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1937 |isbn=978-0837156216 |page=489}}</ref> || ~15.1 million || ~2.2 million || ~7.8 million (44.8%) || ~2.9 million (16.6%) || ~2.2 million (12.5%) || ~1.8 million (10.4%) || ~1.8 million (10.2%) || ~0.8 million (5.5%)
|-
| 1900 || ~19.0 million<ref>{{cite book |last=Kovacsics |first=József |title=The Population of Hungary |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office |year=1996 |isbn=978-9632150918 |page=28}}</ref> || ~16.8 million || ~2.2 million || ~8.7 million (45.8%) || ~3.0 million (15.8%) || ~2.3 million (12.1%) || ~2.0 million (10.5%) || ~2.0 million (10.5%) || ~1.0 million (5.3%)
|-
| 1910 || ~20.9 million<ref>{{cite book |last=Romsics |first=Ignác |title=The Dismantling of Historic Hungary |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0880334562 |pages=38–40}}</ref> || ~18.3 million || ~2.6 million || ~10.0 million (54.5%) || ~3.3 million (16.1%) || ~2.0 million (10.7%) || ~1.9 million (10.4%) || ~1.5 million (8.3%) || ~1.2 million (6.0%)
|}


[[File:Hungary 1910-2009.png|right|thumb|350px|Population of Hungary (1910–2009, with comments)]]
{| class="wikitable" 
 !Land
 
!'''Mother tongues (1910 census)'''
 |-
 |[[Kingdom of Hungary]]
 
|Hungarian (54.4%), Romanian (16.1%), Slovak (10.7%), German (10.4%), Ruthenian (2.5%), Serbian (2.5%), Croatian (1.8%)
 |-
 |[[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]]
 
|Croatian (62.5%), Serbian (24.6%), German (5.0%), Hungarian (4.1%)
 |}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Spoken languages in Transleithania (Hungary) (1910 census)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/torteneti-statisztikai-idosorok-1867-1992-i-567680 |title=Történeti statisztikai idősorok 1867–1992 I.: Népesség-népmozgalom |last1=Fajth |first1=Gáspár |last2=Dr Gyulay |first2=Ferenc |last3=Dr Klinger |first3=András |last4=Dr Harcsa |first4=István |last5=Kamarás |first5=Ferenc |last6=Dr Csahók |first6=István |last7=Dr Ehrlich |first7=Éva |year=1992 |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office |isbn=9789637070433 |language=hu |access-date=3 June 2019 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602225155/https://www.antikvarium.hu/konyv/torteneti-statisztikai-idosorok-1867-1992-i-567680 |url-status=live }}</ref>
! Land
! colspan=1 | [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]
! colspan=1 | [[Romanian language|Romanian]]
! colspan=1 | [[German language|German]]
! colspan=1 | [[Slovak language|Slovak]]
! colspan=1 | [[Croatian language|Croatian]]
! colspan=1 | [[Serbian language|Serbian]]
! colspan=1 | [[Rusyn language|Ruthenian]]
! colspan=1 | Other
! colspan=1 | Total
|-
| [[Danube]] Right Bank
| 72% (2,221,295)
| 0% (833)
| 18% (555,694)
| 0.6% (17,188)
| 5.5% (168,436)
| 0.5% (15,170)
| 0% (232)
| 3.4% (105,556)
| 14.8% (3,084,404)
|-
| Danube Left Bank
| 32.7% (711,654)
| 0% (704)
| 6.6% (144,395)
| 58.8% (1,279,574)
| 0.1% (2,294)
| 0% (200)
| 0% (393)
| 1.7% (36,710)
| 10.4% (2,175,924)
|-
| Danube-Tisza
| 81.2% (3,061,066)
| 0.1% (4,813)
| 9.5% (357,822)
| 2.1% (79,354)
| 0.1% (4,866)
| 4.1% (154,298)
| 0.3% (11,121)
| 4.1% (96,318)
| 18% (3,769,658)
|-
| [[Tisza]] Right Bank
| 53.5% (945,990)
| 0.1% (1,910)
| 5.6% (98,564)
| 25% (441,776)
| 0% (486)
| 0% (247)
| 14.3% (253,062)
| 1.6% (27,646)
| 8.5% (1,769,681)
|-
| Tisza Left Bank
| 61.8% (1,603,924)
| 24% (621,918)
| 3.2% (83,229)
| 3.1% (81,154)
| 0% (327)
| 0% (321)
| 7.5% (194,504)
| 0.3% (8,547)
| 12.4% (2,594,924)
|-
| Tisza-[[Mureș (river)|Maros]]
| 22.2% (474,988)
| 39.5% (845,850)
| 19.9% (427,253)
| 2.1% (44,715)
| 0.2% (4,950)
| 13.6% (290,434)
| 0.1% (3,188)
| 2.4% (50,391)
| 10.3% (2,141,769)
|-
| [[Transylvania]]
| 34.3% (918,217)
| 55% (1,472,021)
| 8.7% (234,085)
| 0.1% (2,404)
| 0% (523)
| 0% (421)
| 0.1% (1,759)
| 1.8% (48,937)
| 12.8% (2,678,367)
|-
| [[Fiume]]
| 13% (6,493)
| 0.3% (137)
| 4.6% (2,315)
| 0.4% (192)
| 26% (12,926)
| 0.9% (425)
| 0% (11)
| 54.8 (27,307, mostly [[Italian language|Italian]])
| 0.2% (49,806)
|-
| [[Croatia-Slavonia]]
| 4% (105,948)
| 0% (846)
| 5.1% (134,078)
| 0.8% (21,613)
| 62.5% (1,638,354)
| 24.6% (644,955)
| 0.3% (8,317)
| 2.6% (67,843)
| 12.6% (2,621,954)
|-
! Total
| 48.1% (10,050,575)
| 14.1% (2,949,032)
| 9.8% (2,037,435)
| 9.4% (1,967,970)
| 8.8% (1,833,162)
| 5.3% (1,106,471)
| 2.3% (472,587)
| 2.2% (469,255)
| 100% (20,886,487)
|}

{{Disputed map|date=June 2024|section|talkpage=Talk:History of Transylvania#POV map}}
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File:Ethnic map of 11th century.jpg|Kniezsa's (1938) view on the ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century, based on [[Toponymy|toponyms]]. Kniezsa's view has been criticized by many scholars, because of its non-compliance with later archaeological and onomastics research, but his map is still regularly cited in modern reliable sources. One of the most prominent critics of this map was [[Emil Petrovici]].<ref>Ethnic Continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian Area, Elemér Illyés</ref>
File:Kingdom of Hungary - Ethnic Map - 1495.jpg|Estimated ethnic map of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] in 1495, created by the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] based on their research. Hungarians are depicted in orange. The date 1495 is based on a nationwide registry conducted in the Kingdom of Hungary by commission of the royal treasury. The map shows the estimated absolute or relative linguistic majority of the local population based on the family names of taxpayers recorded in national or domanial registers, the linguistic analysis of the names of geographic objects and on various scholarly sources.<ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary">{{Cite book |last1=Kocsis |first1=Károly |url=http://www.mtafki.hu/konyvtar/karpat-pannon2015/en/supplementary_maps.html |title=Changing Ethnic Patterns of the Carpatho-Pannonian Area |last2=Tátrai |first2=Patrik |last3=Agárdi |first3=Norbert |last4=Balizs |first4=Dániel |last5=Bognár |first5=András |last6=Bottlik |first6=Zsolt |last7=Kovács |first7=Anikó |last8=Varga |first8=Árpád E. |last9=Farkas |first9=Zoltán |publisher=The Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Geographical Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-963-9545-48-9 |edition=3rd |location=Budapest |last10=Keresztesi |first10=Zoltán |last11=Koczó |first11=Fanni |last12=Nemerkényi |first12=Zsombor |last13=Szabó |first13=Balázs |last14=Szabó |first14=Renáta |last15=Sziládi |first15=József |last16=Bagaméri |first16=Gergely |last17=Balázs |first17=Éva |last18=Butor |first18=Zsanett |last19=Gertheis |first19=Anna |last20=Szigeti |first20=Csaba |last21=Veszely |first21=Zsuzsanna |last22=Gercsák |first22=Gábor |last23=Klinghammer |first23=István}}</ref><ref name="National Atlas of Hungary - History of Population">{{Cite book |last1=Őri |first1=Péter |url=https://nemzetiatlasz.hu/en/home.html |title=National Atlas of Hungary – Volume 3 – Society |last2=Kocsis |first2=Károly |last3=Faragó |first3=Tamás |last4=Tóth |first4=Pál Péter |publisher=Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), Geographical Institute |year=2021 |isbn=978-963-9545-64-9 |editor-last=Kocsis |editor-first=Károly |location=Budapest |chapter=History of Population |editor-last2=Őri |editor-first2=Péter |chapter-url=https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/National-Atlas-of-Hungary_Vol3_Ch2.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary researches">{{Cite book |last1=Kocsis |first1=Károly |url=https://www.mtafki.hu/konyvtar/karpat-pannon2015/pdf/Changing_Ethnic_Pattern_Carpatho_Pannonian_Area_2015.pdf |title=Changing Ethnic Patterns of the Carpatho–Pannonian Area from the Late 15th until the Early 21st Century – Accompanying Text |last2=Tátrai |first2=Patrik |last3=Agárdi |first3=Norbert |last4=Balizs |first4=Dániel |last5=Kovács |first5=Anikó |last6=Gercsák |first6=Tibor |last7=Klinghammer |first7=István |last8=Tiner |first8=Tibor |publisher=Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-963-9545-48-9 |edition=3rd |location=Budapest |language=hu, en}}</ref><ref name="Interactive National Atlas of Hungary - 1495">{{Cite web |title=History of Population – Linguistic map (end of the 15th century) |url=https://emna.hu/en/map/Km_nyelvi_terszerk_1495/@47.1500000,19.6000000,8.00z |website=National Atlas of Hungary (Interactive)}}</ref>
File:Kingdom of Hungary - Ethnic Map - 1784.jpg|Ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1784 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, based on their researches. Hungarians are depicted in orange. The ethnic pattern of Hungary changed due to the centuries long wars and migration movements.<ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary" /><ref name="National Atlas of Hungary - History of Population" /><ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary researches" />
File:Ethnographic map of hungary 1910 by teleki carte rouge.jpg|The Red Map.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Teleki Pál – egy ellentmondásos életút|magazine=[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] Hungary |language=hu |url=http://www.geographic.hu/index.php?act=napi&id=1707|date=2004-02-18|access-date=2008-01-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A kartográfia története|publisher=Babits Publishing Company|language=hu|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02185/html/868.html|access-date=2008-01-30}}</ref> Ethnic map of the Hungary proper publicized by the Hungarian delegation. Regions with population density below 20 persons/km<sup>2</sup><ref name="ReferenceA">Spatiul istoric si ethnic romanesc, Editura Militara, Bucuresti, 1992</ref> are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. The vibrant, dominant red color was deliberately chosen to mark Hungarians while the light purple color of the Romanians, who were already the majority in the whole of Transylvania back then, is shadow-like.<ref name="dailynewshungary_com">{{cite web|url=https://dailynewshungary.com/browse-hungarys-detailed-ethnographical-map-made-treaty-trianon-online/|date=9 May 2017|website=dailynewshungary.com|title=Browse Hungary's detailed ethnographic map made for the Treaty of Trianon online}}</ref>
 File:1910 census in Hungary.png|In the Kingdom of Hungary, the 1910 census was based on mother tongue.<ref name="Kocsis - Mother Tongue and Nationality">{{Cite book |last=Kocsis |first=Károly |title=Magyarország a XX. században – II. Kötet: Természeti környezet, népesség és társadalom, egyházak és felekezetek, gazdaság |publisher=Babits Kiadó |year=1996–2000 |isbn=963-9015-08-3 |editor-last=István |editor-first=Kollega Tarsoly |location=Szekszárd |language=hu |trans-title=Hungary in the 20th century – II. Volume: Natural Environment, Population and Society, Churches and Denominations, Economy |chapter=V. Népesség és társadalom – Demográfiai jellemzők és folyamatok – Magyarország népessége – Anyanyelv, nemzetiség alakulása |trans-chapter=V. Population and Society – Demographic Characteristics and Processes – Hungary's Population – Development of Mother Tongue and Nationality |chapter-url=https://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02185/html/171.html#175}}</ref><ref name="Kocsis - Ethnic Maps">{{Cite web |last=Kocsis |first=Károly |title=Series of Ethnic Maps of the Carpatho-Pannonian Area |url=https://www.mtafki.hu/konyvtar/kiadv/etnika/}}</ref><ref name="Varga - Censuses in Transylvania">{{Cite book |last=Árpád |first=Varga E. |url=https://mek.oszk.hu/00900/00983/pdf/studia.pdf |title=Népszámlálások Erdély területén 1850 és 1910 között |year=1999 |location=Bucharest |trans-title=Censuses in Transylvania between 1850 and 1910}}</ref><ref name=ORIGINAL>{{Cite web|url=https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_1910_01/?pg=21&layout=s|title = 1910. ÉVI NÉPSZÁMLÁLÁS 1. A népesség főbb adatai községek és népesebb puszták, telepek szerint (1912) &#124; Könyvtár &#124; Hungaricana}}</ref> According to the census, 54.4% of the inhabitants of Hungary were recorded to speak Hungarian as their native language.<ref name="Kocsis - Mother Tongue and Nationality" /> This number included the Jewish ethnic group (around 5% of the population according to a separate census on religion{{sfn|Taylor|1948|p=268}} and about 23% of Budapest's citizenry) who were overwhelmingly Hungarian-speaking (the Jews tending to declare German as mother tongue due to the immigration of Jews of Yiddish/German mother tongue).<ref name="Kocsis - Ethnic Patterns">{{Cite book |last1=Kocsis |first1=Károly |url=https://www.mtafki.hu/kutatok/kocsis/terkepek/Mo-teruletenek_web.pdf |title=The Changing Ethnic Patterns on the Present-Day Territory Of Hungary |last2=Bottlik |first2=Zsolt}}</ref>
File:Ethnic Map of Hungary 1910 with Counties.png|Ethnic Map of Hungary 1910 with Counties
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<ref>[http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02185/html/179.html Magyarország a XX. században / Születési mozgalom és termékenység]. Mek.niif.hu. Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref><ref>[http://www.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/phd/gabos_andras.pdf Budapesti Közgazdaságtudományi és Államigazgatási Egyetem] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304100019/http://www.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/phd/gabos_andras.pdf|date=2009-03-04}}. (PDF). Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref><ref name="portal">{{cite web |title=STADAT &ndash; 1.1. Population, vital statistics (1949&ndash; ) |url=http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/eng/xstadat/xstadat_long/h_wdsd001b.html?350 |access-date=2015-05-18 |publisher=portal.ksh.hu}}</ref>

=== Fertility ===
[[File:Hungary total fertility rate by region 2021.png|thumb|Hungary fertility rate by county (2021)
{| width="100%"
|-
| valign="right" |
{{legend|#80ff7f|1.7 - 1.9}}
{{legend|#ffff7f|1.5 - 1.7}}
{{legend|#ffbf3f|1.4 - 1.5}}
{{legend|#ff7f7e|1.3 - 1.4}}
{{legend|#ff3e3e|< 1.3}}
|}
]]
The [[total fertility rate]] is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period in the present-day Hungary. Sources: [[Our World In Data]] and [[Gapminder Foundation]].<ref name="ourworldindata.org">{{citation|url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?year=1800&country=HUN|title=Total Fertility Rate around the world over the last centuries|author=Max Roser|date=2014|work=[[Our World In Data]], [[Gapminder Foundation]]}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1850!!1851!!1852!!1853!!1854!!1855!!1856!!1857!!1858!!1859!!1860<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total Fertility Rate in Hungary||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.18|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.15 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.12||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.09||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.06||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.03||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.97||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.94||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.91||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.88
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1861!!1862!!1863!!1864!!1865!!1866!!1867!!1868!!1869!!1870<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total Fertility Rate in Hungary||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.85|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.11 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.41||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.03||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.11||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.02||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.64||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.09||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.12||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.14
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1871!!1872!!1873!!1874!!1875!!1876!!1877!!1878!!1879!!1880<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total Fertility Rate in Hungary||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.23|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.96 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.18||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.23||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.55||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.61||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.29||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.23||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.58||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.23
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1881!!1882!!1883!!1884!!1885!!1886!!1887!!1888!!1889!!1890<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total Fertility Rate in Hungary||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.28|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.4 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.5||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.59||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.48||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.57||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.41||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.36||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.35||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.93
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1891!!1892!!1893!!1894!!1895!!1896!!1897!!1898!!1899!!1900<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total Fertility Rate in Hungary||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.2|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.96 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.25||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.08||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.48||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.11||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.97||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.95||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.62||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.79
|}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0"
|-
| valign="top" |
{|
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | Year
! style="background:#efefef;" | [[Total Fertility Rate]]
|-
| 1901 || style="text-align:right;"| 5.32
|-
| 1910 || style="text-align:right;"| 4.86
|-
| 1921 || style="text-align:right;"| 3.80
|-
| 1930 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.84
|-
| 1941 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.48
|-
| 1949 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.54
|-
| 1955 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.81
|-
| 1960 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.02
|-
| 1965 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.82
|-
| 1970 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.98
|-
| 1975 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.34
|-
| 1980 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.91
|}
| valign="top" |
{|
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | Year
! style="background:#efefef;" | [[Total Fertility Rate]]
|-
| 1985 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.85
|-
| 1990 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.86
|-
| 1995 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.57
|-
| 2000 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.32
|-
| 2005 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.30
|-
| 2010 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.25
|-
| 2015 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.44
|-
| 2019 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.49
|-
| 2020 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.56
|-
| 2021 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.59
|-
| 2022 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.52
|-
| 2023 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.51
|}
|}
<ref>{{Cite web |title=22.1.1.6. Live births, total fertility rate |url=https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/en/nep0006.html |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=www.ksh.hu}}</ref>

'''Total Fertility Rate by county'''
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! County
! 1980
! 1990
! 2001
! 2011
|-
| {{flag|Baranya County|name=Baranya}} || 1.70 || 1.65 || 1.52 || 1.47
|-
| {{flag|Bács-Kiskun County|name=Bács-Kiskun}} || 1.81 || 1.73 || 1.59 || 1.56
|-
| {{flag|Békés County|name=Békés}} || 1.82 || 1.75 || 1.62 || 1.57
|-
| {{flag|Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County|name=Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén}} || 1.88 || 1.83 || 1.72 || 1.66
|-
| {{flag|Csongrád County|name=Csongrád}} || 1.59 || 1.55 || 1.44 || 1.41
|-
| {{flag|Fejér County|name=Fejér}} || 1.85 || 1.79 || 1.62 || 1.56
|-
| {{flag|Győr-Moson-Sopron County|name=Győr-Moson-Sopron}} || 1.81 || 1.73 || 1.56 || 1.49
|-
| {{flag|Hajdú-Bihar County|name=Hajdú-Bihar}} || 1.92 || 1.82 || 1.65 || 1.56
|-
| {{flag|Heves County|name=Heves}} || 1.79 || 1.69 || 1.57 || 1.53
|-
| {{flag|Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County|name=Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok}} || 1.90 || 1.80 || 1.67 || 1.62
|-
| {{flag|Komárom-Esztergom County|name=Komárom-Esztergom}} || 1.80 || 1.73 || 1.58 || 1.53
|-
| {{flag|Nógrád County|name=Nógrád}} || 1.84 || 1.76 || 1.64 || 1.60
|-
| {{flag|Pest County|name=Pest}} || 1.76 || 1.69 || 1.54 || 1.48
|-
| {{flag|Somogy County|name=Somogy}} || 1.74 || 1.68 || 1.58 || 1.53
|-
| {{flag|Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County|name=Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg}} || 2.21 || 2.05 || 1.85 || 1.75
|-
| {{flag|Tolna County|name=Tolna}} || 1.83 || 1.76 || 1.65 || 1.60
|-
| {{flag|Vas County|name=Vas}} || 1.82 || 1.72 || 1.58 || 1.51
|-
| {{flag|Veszprém County|name=Veszprém}} || 1.88 || 1.79 || 1.64 || 1.58
|-
| {{flag|Zala County|name=Zala}} || 1.78 || 1.73 || 1.56 || 1.52
|-
| {{flag|Budapest}} || 1.25 || 1.27 || 1.17 || 1.13
|-
| '''All''' || 1.71 || 1.65 || 1.53 || 1.47
|}
Source: 2011 census <ref>{{cite web |title=Területi adatok (Territorial data) – 2011 Census |url=http://www.terezvaros.hu/testuleti/nepsz2011-3/ |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office}}</ref>

=== Life expectancy ===
[[File:Life expectancy in Hungary.svg|thumb|300px|Life expectancy in Hungary since 1900]]
[[File:Life expectancy by WBG -Hungary -diff.png|thumb|300px|Life expectancy in Hungary since 1960 by gender]]

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations |url=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/ |access-date=2018-08-26 |website=esa.un.org}}</ref>
|-
|1950–1955
|64.01
|-
|1955–1960
|{{increase}} 66.91
|-
|1960–1965
|{{increase}} 68.79
|-
|1965–1970
|{{increase}} 69.45
|-
|1970–1975
|{{decrease}} 69.41
|-
|1975–1980
|{{increase}} 69.59
|-
|1980–1985
|{{decrease}} 69.08
|-
|1985–1990
|{{increase}} 69.42
|-
|1990–1995
|{{decrease}} 69.41
|-
|1995–2000
|{{increase}} 70.88
|-
|2000–2005
|{{increase}} 72.54
|-
|2005–2010
|{{increase}} 73.74
|-
|2010–2015
|{{increase}} 75.26
|-
|2015–2020
|{{increase}} 76.65
|}

==== Infant mortality rate ====
The infant mortality rate (IMR) decreased considerably after WW II. In 1949, the IMR was 91.0. The rate decreased to 47.6 in 1960, 35.9 in 1970, 23.2 in 1980, 14.8 in 1990, 9.2 in 2000 and reached an all-time low in 2023 at 3.1 per 1000 live born children.<ref>{{Cite web |title=STADAT – 1.1. Population, vital statistics |url=https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/en/nep0001.html |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=www.ksh.hu}}</ref>