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Hungary Establishes Demographic Roundtable to Become a Country of Growing Population  

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Hungary Establishes Demographic Roundtable to Become a Country of Growing Population  

Members of the Demographic Roundtable in Budapest on 6 November 2023.
Zoltán Máthé/MTI
Katalin Novák stressed that the roundtable is not a government agency. Its members will make recommendations to the government and ‘encourage people to contribute to the dialogue,’ she explained. The roundtable comprises representatives of the private and public spheres, as well as the scientific community.
  • Ádám Bráder
  • — 07.11.2023

A Demographic Roundtable has been founded, to transform Hungary into ‘a country with a growing population from a country whose population is shrinking’, President Katalin Novák said at the new body’s inaugural session in Budapest on Monday.

Novák, who is also the head of the roundtable, said Hungary had ‘moved in such a positive direction demographically in the past 13 years that is almost unprecedented in the highly developed Western countries. From the back rows, Hungary has come to the mid-field,’ she said, adding that whereas ‘we have succeeded in making a pro-family turnaround we have not yet made a demographic one.’

She said the roundtable would work to achieve a demographic turnaround to ‘raise the willingness to procreate…and to reverse an over four decade-long negative trend’ of a decreasing population. ‘We may not be enough to do that, but I think we could start a movement, which, if supported by many, will achieve that turnaround…’

President Katalin Novák speaks at the inaugural session on 6 November. PHOTO: Zoltán Máthé/MTI

Problems of a shrinking population could be ‘logically’ remedied by ‘importing the necessary labour, relying on immigration rather than on promoting childbirth,’ the President said.   While many countries will opt for that approach, ‘we in Hungary do not see the solution in mass migration but in promoting childbirth,’ she said.

Katalin Novák stressed that the roundtable is not a government agency. Its members will make recommendations to the government and ‘encourage people to contribute to the dialogue,’ she added. The roundtable comprises representatives of the private and public spheres, as well as the scientific community, with Ágnes Hornung, state secretary in charge of health services, as its Secretary.

The inaugural session was attended by the heads of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Art Academy, the Central Statistical Office, the State Treasury, the National Media and Broadcasting Authority, the National Public Service University, the Heim Pál Paediatric Hospital, and other officials.


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Sources: Hungarian Conservative/MTI

Ádám Bráder graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University in 2021 as an English major specializing in English in the Media and Applied Linguistics. From 2017, he worked as an assistant editor at TV2’s news programme. After graduating, he continued his work as an online journalist, which led to him joining the Hungarian Conservative team in 2022.
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