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People in Budapest

According to the official gazetteer of 2009, there are 1,712,210 people and 881,000 households (dwellings) in Budapest Capital, Hungary.[1] In 2009 the official Budapest metropolitan area has 2,503,205 inhabitants and in the official Budapest commuter area (established by the government in 2005[2]) lived 3,271,110 people[3], so the Hungarian metropolis is the largest metropolitan area in Central-East Europe and the primate city of the Pannonian Basin (former Greater Hungary).

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[edit] Population of Budapest in 2001

[edit] Nationalities

[4]

Population change of Budapest (1780-2008)
Population pyramid of Budapest (2001)
Population change of Budapest metropolitan area (1870-2008, red: Budapest metropolitan area, green: Budapest Capital, blue: Budapest suburban area)
Ethnic group Size Note
Magyars 1,631,043 (91.2%) -
Germans 18,097 (1%) Danube Swabians
Roma 14,019 (0.8%) Generality of them are Hungarian speaking Romungro[5]
Slovaks 4,929 (0.3%) -
Greeks 3,410 -
Romanians 2,637 -
Chinese 2,289 -
Ukrainians 2,055 -
Poles 2,044 -
Others 4,327 -
No answer, unknown 93,071 -

[edit] Population by spoken language

[6][7]

Language Size Note
Hungarian 1,766,733 (99.4%) Mother tongue[8]
English 393,642 (22.1%) Foreign language
German 286,351 (16.1%) Foreign and minority language[9]
Russian 68,960 (3.9%) Foreign language
French 57,648 (3.2%) Foreign language

[edit] Religions

[10]

Denomination Size Note
Roman Catholic 808,460 (45.5%) Mainly Magyar and German descendants
Calvinist 224,169 (12.6%) Only Magyar descendants
Lutheran 46,449 (2.6%) Magyar, German and Slovak descendants
Greek Catholic 28,901 (1.6%) Magyar descendants
Jewish 9,468 (0.5%) Generality of them are Magyarized Neolog Jews
Other Christian 20,523 -
Others 5,971 -
Atheist 374,209 (21%) -
No answer, unknown 286,584 -

[edit] Historical population

[edit] Population by nationalities (1715-1941)

[11] [12]

Nationality 1715 1737 1750 1851 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1941
Magyars 19,4% 22,5% 22,2% 36,6% 56,7% 67,1% 79,6% 85,9% 90,2% 94,3% 97%
Germans 55,6% 57,8% 55,2% 56,4% 34,3% 23,7% 14% 9% 6,5% 3,8% 1,9%
Slovaks 2,2% 5,6% 6,5% 5% 6,1% 5,6% 3,4% 2,3% 1,5% 0,7% 0,3%
Others 22,8%[13] 14,1% 16,1% 2% 2,9% 3,6% 3% 2,8% 1,8% 1,2% 0,8%

[edit] Factory workers by nationality in Budapest (1877)

[14]

Nationality Share
Magyars 46.6%
Foreigners[15] 25%
Slovaks 22.2%
Serbs 0.9%
Romanians 0.3%
Others 5%

[edit] Population by denominations (1870-1949)

[16] [17]

Denomination 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1941 1949
Roman Catholic 72,3% 67,4% 64,7% 60,7% 59,8% 59,1% 60,7% 63,7% 71,3%
Calvinist 4,8% 6,1% 7,4% 8,9% 9,9% 10,9% 12,1% 13,6% 15,5%
Lutheran 5,3% 5,5% 5,6% 5,3% 5% 4,8% 5% 5,3% 5,4%
Jewish 16,6% 19,7% 21% 23,6% 23,1% 23,2% 20,3% 15,8% 6,4%
Others 1% 1,3% 1,3% 1,5% 2,2% 2% 1,9% 1,6% 1,4%

[edit] Historical population data

[edit] Buda and Pest

[18]

Year Buda Pest Budapest
1720 9 600 2 600 12 200
1787 24 873 22 417 47 290
1799 24 306 29 870 54 176
1813 34 066 36 153 70 219
1848 40 500 110 516 151 016
1851 50 127 127 935 178 062
1869 70 000 200 476 280 349
1873 69 573 227 294 296 867

[edit] Budapest Capital

Year Population
1870 302,085
1880 402,706
1890 560,079
1900 861,434
1910 1,110,453
1920 1,232,026
1930 1,442,869
1941 1,712,791
Year Population
1949 1,590,316
1960 1,804,606
1970 2,001,083
1980 2,059,226
1990 2,016,681
2001 1,777,921
2005 1,695,814
2009 1,712,210

[edit] Budapest metropolitan area

Year Population
1870 418,490
1880 530,556
1890 703,004
1900 1,027,626
1910 1,315,183
1920 1,459,449
1930 1,712,596
1941 2,025,402
Year Population
1949 1,897,882
1960 2,184,255
1970 2,480,325
1980 2,626,702
1990 2,579,440
2001 2,454,150
2005 2,421,831
2009 2,503,205

[edit] Budapest suburban area

Year Population
1870 116,404
1880 127,850
1890 142,925
1900 166,192
1910 204,730
1920 227,423
1930 269,727
1941 312,611
Year Population
1949 307,566
1960 379,649
1970 479,242
1980 567,476
1990 562,759
2001 676,229
2005 724,488
2009 790,995

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Official gazetteer of Hungary, 2009
  2. ^ History of the Budapest Commuter Association (English)
  3. ^ Settlements of the Budapest Commuter Area
  4. ^ 2001 census (English)
  5. ^ Romungro means "Hungarian Roma"
  6. ^ Hungarian census 2001 (English)
  7. ^ Hungarian census 2001 (English)
  8. ^ In everyday use only Hungarian is spoken, so Budapest is a single-language city. Non-Hungarians (3% of the total population) also speak Hungarian because assimilating pressure.
  9. ^ German is historically spoken is Budapest, because until the 1870s Budapest was a German-language city.
  10. ^ 2001 census (English)
  11. ^ Budapest statisztikai évkönyve 1943 (Statistical Yearbook of Budapest, 1943), p. 33, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
  12. ^ A Pallas nagy lexikona
  13. ^ Mainly Serbs
  14. ^ Ethnic composition, assimilation in Hungary
  15. ^ Mainly Germans and Czechs from Austria and the Czech lands
  16. ^ Budapest székes főváros Statisztikai és Közigazgatási Évkönyve 1921-1924 (Statistical Yearbook of Budapest, 1921-1924), p. 38, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
  17. ^ Budapest statisztikai évkönyve 1943 (Statistical Yearbook of Budapest, 1943), p. 32, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
  18. ^ Budapest statisztikai évkönyve 1944-1946 (Statistical Yearbook of Budapest, 1944-1946), p. 12, Hungarian Central Statistical Office



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