Preliminary figures show that there were 22,405 births in the first three months of the year, up by 263 from the same period a year earlier.

According to leap day-adjusted data, the number of births for the period was up by 16 compared with 2015. The number of deaths was 32,798, down by 5,880, or 16% according to leap day-adjusted data, KSH said.

The rise in births and the drop in the death rate means that the rate of natural population decline was down by 37% compared with the same period in 2015.

The number of marriages went up by an annual 27% to 6,312.

Source: www.hungarymatters.hu
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