Official: Number of Hungarians living in poverty plummets

Eurostat data show that the ratio of Hungarians living in poverty has dropped over the past ten years, a human resources ministry's official said, visiting a foster family in a village in north-eastern Hungary on Monday. Whereas the ratio of those living beyond poverty line was 23.4 percent in 2010, this dropped to 8.7 percent last year, elevating Hungary to the top ten EU member states from bottom of the list, Attila Fulop, the state secretary in charge of social affairs, said in Tarpa. He said the favourable development was thanks to the government's job-creation measures.