The news did not go unnoticed in Hungary: according to the statistics office (KSH), the country lost 40,400 inhabitants in 2019 and had 9,679,000 at the end of the year. If the loss is lower than in 2018, it is part of a trend that started in 1981. The number of women of reproductive age is too low to compensate for mortality. Worried, the country of Viktor Orban, therefore made pronatalist measures - partly introduced in the sixties - a keystone of its Conservative government, in power since 2010.
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Today, families can benefit from parental leave after birth equivalent to 70% of a parent's salary up to the child's two years (485 euros net maximum); tax reduction; family allowance (50 euros / child maximum); a zero-rate loan for free use of 33,000 euros in the event of birth within five years; assistance with the purchase of accommodation; or 7,500 euros for a seven-seater vehicle from three children.
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