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Magyars (Hungarians) in Hungary, 1890 census The Treaty of Trianon: Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its land and 3.3 million people of Hungarian ethnicity. The years 1918 to 1920 were a turning point in the Hungarians' history.
- 296,000
- 55,500
- 200,000
- 200,000–220,000
According to the census of 1910, the largest ethnic group in the Kingdom of Hungary were Hungarians, who were 54.5% of the population of Kingdom of Hungary, excluding Croatia-Slavonia. Although the territories of the former Kingdom of Hungary that were assigned by the treaty to neighbouring states in total had a majority of non-Hungarian ...
- 9.5 births/1,000 population (2020)
- −4.9 births/1,000 population (2020)
- 14.3 deaths/1,000 population (2020)
- 9,597,085 (1st January 2023)
According to the 1787 data, the population of the Kingdom of Hungary numbered 2,322,000 Hungarians (29%) and 5,681,000 non-Hungarians (71%). In 1809, the population numbered 3,000,000 Hungarians (30%) and 7,000,000 non-Hungarians (70%). An increasingly intense Magyarization policy was implemented after 1867.
By 1720 the Magyars numbered only some 35 percent of the total population. By 1780 the figure had risen to nearly 40 percent, but the periphery, although it contained islands of Magyar population, was still largely non-Magyar.
No religious statistics have been released in Hungary since World War II; but before the war about 65 percent of the population was Roman Catholic, 25 percent Protestant, 6 percent Jewish (almost completely eliminated during the war), and 3 percent Greek Orthodox.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hungary is inhabited almost exclusively by Hungarians (Magyars), who constitute 96.1 percent of its population. The remaining 3.9 percent is made up of Germans, Slovaks, South Slavs, Gypsies, and Romanians.
4 days ago · Hungary, landlocked country of central Europe. The capital is Budapest. At the end of World War I, defeated Hungary lost 71 percent of its territory as a result of the Treaty of Trianon (1920).
