Piroska Szalai said that fully 1.3 million people have arrived and some 700,000 people left Hungary. She added that people staying in Hungary for over a year count as immigrants, while an emigrant is one that has not returned from abroad for more than a year.

She also added that foreign students in Hungary are considered as immigrants, but if they leave Hungary after graduation they will be included in emigrant statistics. Likewise, Hungarians working on longer foreign projects will be labelled emigrants, and seen as immigrants when they return after a year or two.

Szalai said the government's family support measures greatly contributed to attracting young people with small children to return to Hungary, adding that "family assistance measures at such scale and in such diversity" were unique to Hungary.

 

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