A total of 146 thousand foreigners are currently living in Hungary, and more than two thirds are citizens of a European country, says the newspaper Napi Gazdaság based on data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office.
The number of foreigners living on Hungary was the highest in 2011. In that year an average 206 thousand foreigner lived in the country, which accounts for more than 2 percent of the overall population. Since then however their numbers have decreased, partly because many of them received Hungarian citizenships. Napi Gazdaság mentions that since 2011 rules for ethnic Hungarians with dual citizenships were mitigated with the introduction of the so called simplified naturalization.
This is the reason why the number of Ukrainian, Serbian and Romanian citizens has significantly decreased in the past years according to the statistics.
However the number of Germans, Slovakians, Austrians and Russians living in Hungary has significantly increased, and the number of Asians more than doubled over the past 10 years from 15 to 33 thousand. Almost half of them (16 thousand) are Chinese citizens. In the last decade the number of citizens from North African and Sub-Saharan African Arab countries grew three times larger. Currently there are around 5000 people living in the country who arrived from Africa.
In the greatest numbers we can find the foreigners living in the capital. Besides Budapest, Baranya and Somogy counties are also popular, mainly among Dutch pensioners. In Győr-Moson-Sopron county there are villages where more than a third of the estates have Austrian owners. Speaking of real estate, Hévíz in Zala county is popular as well: foreigners have been buying hotels, pensions and hundreds of other properties in recent years.
(Source: http://www.penzcentrum.hu/otthon/150_ezer_kulfoldi_el_magyarorszagon_honnan_jottek.1045472.html)
