Hungary at the lower end of EU ranking of family allowances

The average amount of family allowances per person in the EU was €777 in 2021, compared to €561 in 2011. Total family benefits in the EU in 2021 amounted to €347 billion, up 41% from €247 billion in 2011, HVG spotted in Eurostat's report.

The highest per capita family allowances in 2021 were in Luxembourg (€3,611), Denmark (€1,858) and Germany (€1,575), and the lowest in Bulgaria (€161), Greece (€243) and Romania (€244).

Hungary ranked twenty-first with €292 (HUF 113,000).

Family allowances accounted for 8.3% of total social protection expenditure in the EU in 2021. Poland (15%), Luxembourg (14.8%) and Estonia (12.8%) had the highest rates of spending on family benefits, while the lowest rates were recorded in Italy (4.1%), the Netherlands (4.6%) and Cyprus (4.7%). In Hungary the rate was 10.5%.

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