40,000 Asian people in Hungary

According to 24.hu, the number of the Asian population in Hungary doubled in the past 10 years. An especially large number of Chinese people arrived since 2013, mostly thanks to the residency bond program. On the other hand, 40,000 fewer dwellers from other European countries live in Hungary than in 2007.

The number of Asian people living in Hungary doubled in the last decade, while 40,000 fewer people from other European countries live there than in 2007.

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) states that in 2017, 151,132 people lived in Hungary who were not citizens of the county. This number used to be 206,000 in 2011.

Most of the migrants are still European today as almost 100,000 of them came from the other parts of the continent.

Romania is still leading the chart, but the number of Romanian citizens living in Hungary decreased from 68,000 to 24,000. Ukrainians show a similar tendency, as their numbers decreased from 15,000 to barely 6,000 since 2007.

KSH explained this decrease by the law of 2011 that made it possible for many people with Hungarian ancestry to receive citizenship in Hungary, including many Romanian and Ukrainian citizens who could prove their origins.

KSH does not have separate statistics about dual citizens: anyone with Hungarian citizenship is recorded as a Hungarian, not as a foreigner. By November, the number of people receiving Hungarian passport with the help of the new law exceeded one million.

However, not all tendencies are decreasing. There are 3,000 more Germans in Hungary than 10 years ago, while the number of Austrians doubled from 2,000 to 4,000. Slovakians and Russians also keep coming to the country.

However, the most rapid growth can be observed in connection to Asians: there were about 20,000 of them in Hungary in 2007, but now they are above 40,000.