number of nationalities in Hungary
In the 2011 Census data on nationalities were collected in four aspects: nationality, mother tongue, language used in family and among friends, and cultural affiliation / ties.
Act CLXXIX of 2011 on the Rights of Nationalities (Njt.) lists the following nationalities in Hungary: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, German, Greek, Gypsy, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Ukrainian.
In the census the Central Statistical Office records the nationality of each person enumerated, ‘regardless of their mother tongue, as a nationality to which they have declared themselves to belong without any influence’. The mother tongue is the “living language which a person usually learns (first) in childhood, in which he usually speaks to his family members, and which he declares to be his mother tongue, free from all influences and true to reality”.
According to the 2011 census, the country’s population was 9,938,000, of which 85.6% declared themselves Hungarian. The number of people claiming their national identity has increased to 644,524, almost one and a half times the number in the previous census 10 years ago. The census data by nationality are: Gypsy/Roma 315 583, German 185 696, Romanian 35 641, Slovakian 35 208, Croatian 26 774, Serbian 10 038, Ukrainian 7396, Polish 7001, Bulgarian 6272, Greek 4642, Ruthenian 3882, Armenian 3571, and Slovenian 2820.
148 155 persons declared as their mother tongue a language used by a nationality recognised in Hungary, distributed as follows: Gypsy/Roma 54 339 persons, German 38 248 persons, Romanian 13 886 persons, Croatian 13 716 persons, Slovakian 9888 persons, Serbian 3708 persons, Ukrainian 3384 persons, Polish 3049 persons, Bulgarian 2899 persons, Greek 1872 persons, Slovenian 1723 persons, Ruthenian 999 persons, Armenian 444 persons.