If we look at the data chronologically, we can see that in 2015, the proportion of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Hungary was 30.6 percent.
In other words, in eight years the proportion of poor people in Hungary has decreased by more than ten percentage points, which means the number of individuals living in poverty decreased by one million ninety-eight thousand people. This is how many people have been lifted out of poverty in recent years through higher employment, increased family support or rising wages.
For the years before 2015, Eurostat used a slightly different definition of exposure to the risk of poverty and social exclusion, but taking into account methodological differences, the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Hungary has decreased by more than 1.2 to 1.3 million since 2010.
"In general, all labor safety regulations begin by advising you to use the right tool for the right job. It is no different in economics: use the right indicator when you measure poverty, not just the one that supports your narrative or the one that happens to be at hand. Otherwise, economists only issue poverty certificates for themselves," senior analyst Daniel Molnar noted.
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