MINELRES: Fwd: RFE/RL: Hungary's Minorities Increasingly Willing to Identify
Themselves
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 6, No. 143, Part II, 1 August 2002
HUNGARY'S MINORITIES INCREASINGLY WILLING TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES.
More than 300,000 Hungarian citizens identified themselves as members of
one of the country's 13 officially recognized ethnic minorities,
Hungarian dailies reported on 1 August, citing data from the February
2001 census. The figure is a considerable increase since 1990, according
to Tamas Mellar, president of the Central Statistics Office. During the
census, nearly 95 percent of Hungary's 10 million people volunteered to
declare its ethnic affiliation. The number of Roma rose from 142,000 to
190,000, while that of ethnic Germans doubled to 62,000. The number of
ethnic Romanians declined. Meanwhile, 90 percent of people said they are
a member of one of nearly 260 faiths. More than 5.5 million people said
they are Catholics, while 1.6 million are Calvinists, 300,000 are
Lutherans, and nearly 13,000 are Jewish. MSZ
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