In the first two months of the year 14,843 babies were born, 0.5% more than a year ago and the number of deaths fell 18% to 21,588 in the same period. Hungary's population hence declined 6,475 compared with 11,566 a year ago.
The modest increase in the number of births, by 70, in the first two months of the year was due in part to the leap-year effect, KSH noted. According to KSH, there were 9.2 live births and 13.4 deceases per thousand inhabitants, while the number of infant deaths was 4.0 per thousand live births in the first two months of the year, amounting to a decrease of 0.7 per mille point year-on-year.
