ADVICE FOR LIFE: DON'T BE BORN INTO POVERTY IN HUNGARY
The number of births in Hungary is near an all-time low. The birth rate plummeted to 8.8 per 1000 population in 2011. This year it is around 9.1/1000 . The total population of the country has decreased from 10.9 million (1980-81) to 9.6 million , due mainly to awful morbidity levels, high mortailty rates, outmigration and a low birth rate. Which makes it all the more awful that the number of newborns left / kept in hospitals after being born and living there ever since has gone up to 353 from 260 since January 2025 . When asked by the media, the minister responsible for social affairs--a 77-year-old former internal ministry driver, later a police detective, after the regime change an owner of the country's largest security companies, and a member of all of the current prime minister's earlier governments, named as the 4th most influential person in Hungary--first, shunned responsibility by snapping at the media that "we [ostensibly, the government] didn't give birth ...
