On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 2.6%^* of the people living in Hungary, against 9.6%^* across the EU — the 23rd highest share of the 27 EU states that publish it.

The largest single foreign citizenship among residents is Germany: 25,381 people on 1 January 2025.

In 2024, 88,418 people moved to Hungary and 84,286 left: a difference of 4,132^*, more arrivals than departures.

Citizens and foreigners

Residents of Hungary on 1 January 2024, by the citizenship they hold. Every line is a separate figure Eurostat publishes; the site adds none of them together.

Residents of Hungary by citizenship, 1 January 2024
Citizenship	People	Share of residents
All residents	9,584,627	—
Foreign citizens and stateless peopleOne group Eurostat publishes, shown beside the lines below	250,722	2.6%^*
Citizens of Hungary	9,333,715	97.4%^*
Citizens of other EU countries	84,451	0.9%^*
Citizens of countries outside the EU	166,171	1.7%^*
Stateless people	100	<0.01%^*
Citizenship not stated	190	<0.01%^*

Against the other EU states

Foreign citizens and stateless people as a share of residents on 1 January 2024, for the states ranked next to Hungary. Only states that publish both figures that year are ranked.

Foreign-citizen share, Hungary and the states ranked next to it, 1 January 2024
Rank	Country	Foreign citizens and stateless people, share of residents
21	Lithuania	4.7%^*
22	Croatia	3.0%^*
23	Hungary	2.6%^*
24	Bulgaria	1.8%^*
25	Romania	1.5%^*
—	European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked)	9.6%^*

Largest foreign citizenships

Residents of Hungary by individual citizenship on 1 January 2025, the ten largest of the 197 citizenships Eurostat publishes. This is the citizenship people hold, not where they were born and not their ethnicity.

Ten largest foreign citizenships among residents of Hungary, 1 January 2025
Rank	Citizenship	People	Share of residents
1	Germany	25,381	0.27%^*
2	China	24,343	0.26%^*
3	Ukraine	20,458	0.21%^*
4	Viet Nam	17,871	0.19%^*
5	Slovakia	17,124	0.18%^*
6	Romania	15,566	0.16%^*
7	Philippines	8,710	0.09%^*
8	Russia	7,835	0.08%^*
9	India	7,693	0.08%^*
10	South Korea	5,828	0.06%^*

Country of birth

Residents of Hungary by where they were born, on 1 January 2025. This is a different question from citizenship: someone born abroad may hold Hungary's citizenship, and someone born in Hungary may not.

Residents of Hungary by country of birth, 1 January 2025
Country of birth	People	Share of residents
All residents	9,539,502	—
Born in Hungary	8,846,309	92.7%^*
Born in another country	693,156	7.3%^*
Born in another EU country	349,414	3.7%^*
Born outside the EU	343,742	3.6%^*
Country of birth not stated	37	<0.01%^*

Arrivals and departures

People who moved to or left Hungary during each calendar year, as reported to Eurostat. Arrivals and departures are separate published figures; the difference is the site's subtraction of the two for the same year.

Arrivals, departures and their difference, Hungary, 2024 and earlier years
Year	Arrived	Left	Arrived minus left
2024	88,418	84,286	4,132^*
2023	96,192	71,369	24,823^*
2022	94,148	58,408	35,740^*
2021	80,471	67,999	12,472^*
2020	75,470	67,364	8,106^*
2019	88,581	49,795	38,786^*

By citizenship, 2024

Arrivals and departures by the citizenship of the person moving. Each line is a separate published figure; none is added to another.

Arrivals and departures by citizenship, Hungary, 2024
Citizenship	Arrived	Left
Citizens of Hungary	39,140	41,294
Citizens of other EU countries	9,519	5,496
Citizens of countries outside the EU	39,758	37,494
Stateless people	1	2
Citizenship not stated	0	0

How to read these figures

Citizenship is the legal bond between a person and a state. Country of birth is where a person was born. They are different facts and different tables, and neither records ethnicity, origin or descent.
Residents counted at 1 January are a stock; arrivals and departures are events during a calendar year. A flow is never a change in a stock, and the two are not divided by each other here.
Eurostat takes each country’s own statistics. Countries differ in who counts as an arrival or a resident, so comparisons between countries are approximate.

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Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

A share of residents, computed by dividing one published count by another from the same table, country and date (for example foreign citizens by all residents).
A country's rank among the EU states for its foreign-citizen share, computed by sorting the published figures of the states that publish both counts for the year.
The difference between published immigration and published emigration for the same country and year (arrivals minus departures). It is a subtraction of two published figures, not a net-migration figure published by Eurostat.
The ten largest individual citizenships, selected by sorting the published figures for the latest year in which most countries are published.

Source: Eurostat. Reuse terms.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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