And perhaps it would be worth thinking about the fact that there is no European among the first 120 countries in the ranking according to the fertility index. Written by Zsolt Bayer.
There are two evergreen topics (of course there are more, from soccer to "Azor bandit dictator"), which the other side (the stupid and vile one) brings up from time to time, to prove how terrible everything is here, and "there is no progress despite the fact that the government has this one of his cane paripas".
These are the two evergreens: life expectancy and birth rate.
Let's start with the first one. Népszava begins as follows:
Average life expectancy in EU member states increased by half a year, but it is still one of the lowest in the Northern Hungarian region. According to Eurostat, the average life expectancy at birth in Hungary is 76 years.
Creepy. And that's just the title! Let's look into the chilling details, into the terrible, anti-human, hellish pits of "Orbanistan"! Here it is:
"According to Eurostat, the average life expectancy at birth in Hungary is 76 years. The report listed the life expectancy at birth of the population of seven Hungarian regions and Budapest. Among them, 76.9 in the Western Transdanubian region, 76.7 in the Pest County region, 75.8 in both the Southern and Central Transdanubian regions, 75.5 in the Southern Great Plain region, 75 in the Northern Great Great Plain region, the population's life expectancy at birth was 74.1 years in the northern Hungarian region, and 78.1 years in Budapest.
The average life expectancy of women at birth in the EU was 83.3 years in 2022, i.e. an increase of 0.4 years compared to 2021, but a decrease of 0.7 years compared to 2019. For men, this figure was 77.9 years in 2022, which means an increase of 0.7 years compared to 2021, but a decrease of 0.6 years compared to 2019.
Life expectancy at birth for women and men varies between EU countries: in Latvia, women are expected to live 10 years longer than men, followed by Estonia and Lithuania, where the difference is 8.7 years. The smallest difference was in the Netherlands (2.9 years), Ireland (3.3 years) and Sweden (3.4 years). In Hungary, the expected life expectancy at birth for women in 2022 was 79.3 years, and for men 72.6 years, the Eurostat report revealed.
And then let's take a look overseas, the best of all worlds, the bright shining diamond that is the United States. Because the USA is an example, the opposition temporarily stationed in our country and its press cannot imagine a better place than that. And we too should do everything - according to them - to finally become like those over there.
Well, the most important figure: life expectancy in the United States today is 76 years. Wow! Then something is wrong here... The same as here? How is it possible?
In addition, if we look at the data series above, we can say that in Hungary today life expectancy is higher than the average in the United States in four of the seven regions listed, and it is only 1.9 years lower in the worst Hungarian region.
And then we look at the American data and trends in more detail:
“Life expectancy in America has plummeted. In 2019, the average American could still count on a life expectancy of 79 years, but by 2021, this number has decreased to 76 years. Such a sharp drop in two years has not been seen in almost a hundred years. It is also worrying that since 2019 they have been observing a continuously decreasing trend. The phenomenon can be traced back to several reasons, and the coronavirus epidemic is only one of them
Euronews writes.
For the second year in a row, the life expectancy of Americans has decreased, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on the basis of preliminary data. Recent data show that life expectancy at birth has fallen to a level not seen since 1996. While the average life expectancy for an American was still 77 years in 2020, by 2021 it will be only 76.1 years. A greater decrease was only measured from 2019 to 2020, when the value dropped from 78.8 to 77 in a single year. In the two years between 2019 and 2021, the expected average life expectancy was therefore shortened by 2.7 years - this has not been the case since the beginning of the 1920s - it can be read on the Euronews.hu portal.
The difference between the life expectancy of women and men has also continued to grow: by 2021, an American woman lived an average of 5.9 years longer than an American man. The last time there was such a difference between the sexes was in 1996. The life expectancy of men born in 2021 is 73.2 years, while that of women is 79.1 years - which, by the way, shows a decrease of 0.8 years compared to 2020."
Pretty interesting, isn't it?
And then let's look at the other whistle that they are blowing, even the terminus of devolution - MSZMP-MSZP-MZP-MP - shouted this at its "flag raising", that if family support is in vain, fewer children are born, so the whole thing is completely unnecessary, this (also) it is corrupted.
Well, I wouldn't for the world want to spoil the fun of our dear opposition, rush into their sandbox and kick the pear shapes, but let me quote my favorite, Francesca Rivafinoli:
"It's great that Péter Magyar also considers it important to increase the number of births - but unfortunately his starting point is false from the outset. In a very specific way, he uses the classic deka slip when he claims that the fewest number of children were born last year due to the failure of family policy, and that "it was not possible to break out of the negative spiral". It would be very, very bad news if it turned out that Fénylő Héménysugár is not at the level of thinking to see: compared to 2010, in 2023, 300,000 fewer women of childbearing age gave birth to 5,000 fewer children. But in addition, 2023 was a particularly unsuccessful year: in 2022, for example, there were even more live births than in 2011.
Of course, it is not a fun option if Péter Magyar is exactly aware of the numbers and connections, but he does not reveal all the details of the truth to us.
It should be decided whether the new party leader will appeal to the DK's voting base (because then the claim that numerically fewer children were born in a given year is perfect, therefore the entire family support is an unnecessary waste of money), or whether he wants to appeal to the disillusioned intellectuals - the latter In this case, however, it is very embarrassing to smear this fertility rate thing and to accuse the government of something that is factually not true."
According to official statistics, the age group between 15 and 49 is considered to be a woman of childbearing age, but in the Western world the number of those who
They give birth at the age of 15, and in fact, the age of having children is being pushed later and later, it is increasingly typical that women give birth to their first child close to thirty.
Thus, we can safely say that this minus of three hundred thousand is from those born around 1994, but if we also take into account parents in their twenties, then it comes from those born around 2004.
From the times when there was a socialist-free democratic government in Hungary, without family support. Let's calmly thank them for the 300,000 minus, and thank God that even in such a situation, we managed to "only" have a 5,000 minus in the number of births - obviously thanks to the unprecedented family support system.
And then some more data at the end.
Do you know what the GDP per capita is in the United States?
In the December 2, 2023 article of the Portfolio, written by Tamás Matura, Corvinus University, we can read: "The decline of the United States is a mirage, while dictatorships collapse unexpectedly - the United States is richer than ever, nominal GDP per capita this year may reach four times the Hungarian level, i.e. 80,000 dollars."
Anyway, war isn't such a bad deal, especially if it's a proxy and it's fought in Ukraine instead of California...
Of course, in the same article we can also read:
"Of course, all this does not mean that the spectacular movements listed above do not hide real social problems, but they are rather symptoms and not causes of more complex problems. Among the deep-seated tensions, the decades-long increase in inequality stands out, and in close connection with this, the slow but continuous decline of the middle class. While the former drives a significant part of voters towards political extremism and populism, the latter undermines one of the main pillars of democracy.
Obviously, this unfavorable process can be traced back to many reasons, but perhaps it is worth highlighting among them the neoliberal turn of American economic policy that began nearly fifty years ago. While between 1948 and 1973 the growth of productivity and hourly wages closely followed each other, as a result of this change, the two data diverged spectacularly from the mid-1970s, and the real wages of employees essentially stagnated between 1973 and 2013. This is largely due to the fact that between 1971 and 2021, the middle class fell from 61 percent of the population to 50 percent, while the share of high-income earners increased by one and a half times, and the proportion of the poor also increased."
Trump, rust belts - something looming? But the point is, the US GDP per capita is $80,000. According to this article, Hungary's is 20,000 dollars, according to official statistics it is 21,075 dollars.
Cuba's GDP per capita is $7,300.
Life expectancy in the USA is 76 years, in Hungary 76 years, and in Cuba 78.45 years. For less than a tenth of GDP per capita, Cubans live two and a half years longer than Americans, and for a third of GDP they also live two and a half years longer than us. The US fertility rate is 1.64. Hungary's fertility rate is 1.59 in 2021, 1.52 in 2022, and 1.51 in 2023. (In 2010 it was 1.25, in 2000 1.32, and in 1920, already after Trianon, 3.8...) Cuba's fertility rate is 1.5. The richest European country, Luxembourg, has 1.35. The EU average (2016) was 1.6, in 2022 it was somewhere between 1.45 and 1.49.
And maybe this is also worth reading in addition to the whole thing:
"According to the KSH's official definition, the total fertility rate expresses how many children a woman would give birth to during her lifetime, given the age-specific birth rate of the given year. Between 2010 and 2022, Hungary achieved the greatest improvement in terms of the indicator. Between the two periods, the value of the ratio improved by more than 26 percent. The Czech Republic is in second place with 21 percent. In contrast, childbearing behavior has deteriorated the most in Finland, by more than 22 percent."
I think there is something to ponder, of course, only if someone is not the opposition temporarily staying in our country, its press, and wants to know, see, and know the world at the level of Péter Magyar.
And perhaps it would be worth thinking about the fact that there is no European among the first 120 countries in the ranking according to the fertility index.
Will anyone miss the Christian, European, white man and his culture?
White lives matter? Or just LGBTQ? We have become pagan hedonists - but will we still die out? And let's not forget: whoever can and dares to think about such things, for whom it is important, whoever sees further than tomorrow's Politico editorial, is a "dictator". Well, that's why it's important to have people who are "dictators" according to the sick, miserable, self-destructive and self-destructive zeitgeist.
Featured image: Dávid Mátrai
