Hungary
Magyarország
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Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 21.2%
- people aged 65 or older
- 2M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 27.4%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 20.2 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 30.6%
- women 37.1%, men 20.8%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 3.4%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2022; UN, 2011 census
Languages
13 languages, 3 of them endangered
- RusynVulnerable
- SlovakVulnerable
- UkrainianVulnerable
- Balkan Romani
- Carpathian Romani
- Eastern Yiddish
- German
- Hungarian
- Hungarian Sign Language
- Romanian
- Serbisk
- Slovene
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- Vlax Romani
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
- Csárdás dance tradition2024
- Knowledge, craft and skills of handmade glass production2023
- Lipizzan horse breeding traditions2022
- Hungarian string band tradition2022
- Falconry, a living human heritage2021
- Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in Europe2018
- Safeguarding of the folk music heritage by the Kodály concept2016
- Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery of a traditional community2012
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List and years: ich.unesco.org
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