Year Number of people entitled to sick-pay, thousandsa Average daily number of people on sick-pay, thousands Proportion of people on sick-pay, % Number of sick-pay days, millions Sick-pay days per entitled person Sick-pay days per case Expenditure on sick-pay, million HUFb Expenditure per sick-pay day, HUF
1990 4,540 272 6.0 99.4 21.9 20.9 24,319 245
1991 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1992 4,018 199 5.0 72.9 18.1 31.6 28,912 397
1993 3,897 200 5.1 73.2 18.8 32.8 35,255 482
1994 3,899 203 5.2 73.9 19.0 33.0 40,833 552
1995 3,827 173 4.5 63.1 16.5 39.7 39,805 631
1996 3,720 123 3.3 45.2 12.2 36.9 32,977 730
1997 3,558 119 3.3 43.3 12.2 30.2 36,138 835
1998 3,530 114 3.2 41.7 11.8 29.5 41,255 989
1999 3,433 115 3.3 41.9 12.2 25.5 49,205 1,173
2000 3,465 112 3.2 41.2 11.9 29.2 56,140 1,364
2001 3,473 117 3.4 42.6 12.3 31.6 64,206 1,508
2002 3,480 122 3.5 44.4 12.8 34.8 80,864 1,823
2003 3,521 124 3.5 45.2 12.8 34.2 98,936 2,189
2004 3,485 107 3.1 39.2 11.2 31.8 96,240 2,457
2005 3,486 102 2.9 37.4 10.7 29.8 90,484 2,420
2006 3,523 100 2.8 36.3 10.3 30.4 93,879 2,583
2007 3,520 90 2.6 33.0 9.4 29.6 91,412 2,772
2008 3,478 90 2.6 32.9 9.4 27.9 97,860 2,979
2009 3,413 90 2.6 32.8 9.6 29.0 101,571 3,101
2010 3,473 76 2.2 27.9 8.0 27.0 74,138 2,662
2011 3,511 62 1.8 22.7 6.5 25.2 60,501 2,670
2012 3,769 55 1.5 20.1 5.3 24.8 53,538 2,668
2013 3,796 54 1.4 19.8 5.2 24.0 57,988 2,929
2014 3,954 59 1.5 21.6 5.5 22.5 66,462 3,082
2015 3,962 64 1.6 23.2 5.9 21.4 75,336 3,247
2016 4,027 69 1.7 25.3 6.3 21.8 85,619 3,386
2017 4,018 70 1.7 25.4 6.3 21.8 95,341 3,752
2018 4,038 73 1.8 26.5 6.6 22.0 109,568 4,136
2019 4,045 73 1.8 26.5 6.6 21.5 126,916 4,782
2020 3,972 79 2.0 29.0 7.3 23.1 153,506 5,294
2021 3,978 78 2.0 28.6 7.2 19.9 163,099 5,693
2022 4,006 77 1.9 28.1 7.0 17.6 176,471 6,277
2023 3,922 69 1.8 25.2 6.4 16.7 184,008 7,296

Footnotes

*Including data of the Hungarian State Railways, up to 1998 excluding data of those who made an individual contract with NHIFA. From 1999 excluding data of the professional staff of armed forces, law enforcement bodies and civil national security services.
aThe number of entitled persons is estimated till 2005.
bHealth Insurance Fund's ledger data up to 2004.
Source: National Health Insurance Fund Administration, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungarian State Treasury.

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