One in ten children in Hungary live below poverty line, says UNICEF

Just over 10 percent of Hungarian children live below the poverty line, a recent UNICEF report shows. The relative poverty rate of 10.3 percent puts Hungary in midfield among the 29 European advanced industrial countries surveyed, said Tamas Babel, the United Nations Children's Fund director in Hungary, citing the report based on 2009 figures. The risk of child poverty is especially acute if parents are jobless or have low qualifications, or the child has a single-parent or immigrant family, he said.