{"id":34071,"date":"2026-08-06T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=34071"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:31:23","slug":"population-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/population-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Population Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The article discusses the ongoing debate regarding the accurate population count of the Roma community in Hungary, highlighting discrepancies between census data and researchers&#8217; estimates due to factors like identity and assimilation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the latest census, about 210,000 people identified as Roma, (a 30% dreacres relative to the previous Hungar4ian Census) but estimates suggest the actual number could range from 500,000 to 1 million, with projections indicating a significant increase by 2050.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roma population is characterized by a young demographic structure, with higher birth rates compared to the general population, raising questions about future coexistence and integration with Hungarian society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This latter statement is again unsubstanciated. It is assuming that all Roma have many children, whereas the majority is not. Many children is related to poverty, not to being Roma.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cig\u00e1nys\u00e1g becs\u00fclt m\u00e9rete, \u00e9s egy\u00e9b meglep\u0151 adatok, inform\u00e1ci\u00f3k,. In: Promotion. 06.08.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/promotions.hu\/elet\/2026\/08\/06\/ciganysag-valodi-letszama-meglepo-adatok#google_vignette\">https:\/\/promotions.hu\/elet\/2026\/08\/06\/ciganysag-valodi-letszama-meglepo-adatok#google_vignette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article discusses the ongoing debate regarding the accurate population count of the Roma community in Hungary, highlighting discrepancies between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[599,14],"tags":[664,729],"class_list":["post-34071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hungary","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-census","tag-population"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785922434_kepernyokep-2026-08-05-112009.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34073,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions\/34073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}