The demographic decline of Hungary, with its population dropping below the psychological threshold of 10 million people a few years ago and decreasing each year by several tens of thousands ...

Hungary has announced that it will offer free in-vitro fertilization treatments, the latest major initiative to try to boost the country's population numbers, which have been declining for decades.

BUDAPEST: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said ... fewer and fewer children are born in the 9.8 million population Central European country every year. Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians ...

BUDAPEST -- "If it weren't for a private clinic, I wouldn't have him," Krisztina Kazinczy says, pointing at her little boy collecting branches at a playground in a Budapest suburb. Her son, now ...

Hungary wants to boost declining birth rates by providing state-sponsored fertility treatments. A new program has purchased six private IVF clinics and put them under the state's control.

BERLIN — Faced with a plummeting population, rising labor shortages and widespread emigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has long taken an unconventional approach to increasing the ...

Hungary will offer free IVF to childless couples in its latest bid to boost its declining population instead of welcoming more migrants. Right wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the policy ...

Focus on population' With an estimated birth rate of 1.48 per woman, Hungary is just one of many Eastern European countries facing demographic decline - due to both low birth rates and the ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his annual State of the Nation speech that the policy was "Hungary's answer" to population decline, "not immigration." "There are fewer and fewer children born ...