UN report: the population of Hungary is drastically decreasing

According to the United Nations’ 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects report, a quarter of Central and East Europe’s population could vanish by the end of the century unless a big change happens. Hvg.hu writes that even though this is only an estimation, it’s quite shocking that only six million people are expected to live in Hungary by 2100.

The 2017 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-fifth version of official United Nations population ‘estimates and projections’ that has been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

According to the report, the total population of the Earth is expected to grow to 11.2 billion from 7.6 million by the end of the century, while the population of Europe will be constantly decreasing. This won’t cause big problems in West Europe, but the depopulation of our region could be very dangerous.

“Much of the overall increase in population between now and 2050 is projected to occur either in high fertility countries, mostly in Africa, or in countries with large populations. From 2017 to 2050, it is expected that half of the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uganda and Indonesia (ordered by their expected contribution to total growth).”