Hungarians Live Longer But In Worse Shape, KSH Says

Budapest, June 11 (MTI) – Life expectancy at birth in Hungary has increased by 2.7 years during the past decade, similarly to the rest of the European Union, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a report published on Wednesday.

The report, however, warned that both children and adults are in a worse physical condition, and the healthcare system is more and more overburdened.

According to the report, Hungarians born in 2012 could expect to live 75 years – men 71, women 79 – a year longer than people in Lithuania and Latvia, but seven years shorter than the Spanish, the longest-lived people in the European Union.

Among children, the number of asthma patients has grown by 150 percent, the number of diabetics has doubled, and there are 80 percent more children with high blood pressure, and 40 percent more with scoliosis or tumor than ten years ago, the report said.