US EditionCrisis in Hungarian Maternity Hospitals, Delivery Has Stopped Even at Private Hospitals
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While not long ago, parents had to try their luck in a "clicking contest" to register for a chosen maternity hospital, today hospitals are trying the opposite. However, improving services is often not enough to survive.
In the first half of the year, eight percent fewer people were born in our country and three percent more died than in the first six months of 2024, according to a flash report by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). The demographic crisis is so serious that the number of deaths has exceeded the number of births by 85 percent nationwide since January. The process can be traced back to several reasons, and plays a decisive role in it, including …
The fertility rate in Hungary has been declining for the fourth year in a row, falling to just 1.27 in the first half of 2025, compared to a peak of 1.61 in 2021. Hungary is facing a serious demographic crisis: ... ...
In the first half of the year, 85 percent more people died in Hungary than were born. The decline in the number of births is affecting the whole of Europe, but in Hungary the situation is aggravated by the tightening of the rules of state maternity care. The measures taken after the abolition of the gratuity have crushed family-friendly state maternity hospitals, but the drop in the number of births is so great that even the turnover of private …
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