Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Hungary

Poverty at the national line in Hungary in 2021 — 12.1%. Ranked 9 in the world out of 73. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 1.4 pp.

2021 12.1% −0.5 pp vs 2020
World rank 9of 73
Period maximum 15.9%2005
Period minimum 12.1%2021

Trend over time

2004–2021 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Hungary, 2004–2021121314151620042006200820102012201420162018202020212004: 13.5%2005: 15.9%2006: 12.3%2007: 12.4%2008: 12.4%2009: 12.3%2010: 14.1%2011: 14.3%2012: 15%2013: 15%2014: 14.9%2015: 14.5%2016: 13.4%2017: 12.8%2018: 12.3%2019: 12.3%2020: 12.6%2021: 12.1%
Change over the period: −1.4 pp Annual average: -0.08 pp
Poverty at the national line — Hungary, by year Hungary All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 12.1 −0.5 pp
2020 12.6 +0.3 pp
2019 12.3 +0 pp
2018 12.3 −0.5 pp
2017 12.8 −0.6 pp
2016 13.4 −1.1 pp
2015 14.5 −0.4 pp
2014 14.9 −0.1 pp
2013 15 +0 pp
2012 15 +0.7 pp
2011 14.3 +0.2 pp
2010 14.1 +1.8 pp
2009 12.3 −0.1 pp
2008 12.4 +0 pp
2007 12.4 +0.1 pp
2006 12.3 −3.6 pp
2005 15.9 +2.4 pp
2004 13.5

Eastern Europe, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.

Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.