Energy

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic trends, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data in some 500 tables, charts and maps. In the chapter devoted to earnings and incomes, it is a novelty compared to previous years that net earnings in which allowances and types of exemptions are accounted for, too, came into focus from 2019. In the number of employees, people working in working time shorter than 60 working hours per month are also taken into account. In addition, the theme of environment is completed with areas declared world heritage sites by UNESCO.

A new sub-page has been added to the HCSO website, more than 400 yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections, a total of a hundred thousand pdf format pages close to 150 thousand excel tables and several thousand static and interactive graphs and maps are available for download. The sub-page offers the possibility of filtering these yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections by reference year, serial name, format (PDF, XLS) and supplements (graphs, maps). Users may compile their own list of publications based on the year- and pocketbooks, data collections, adequate to their interests.

Our series of infographics, based on the most important data from the Hungarian-language publication Hungary, 2024 provides a comprehensive picture of the social and economic state of our country and the main characteristics of our environment. The last infographic in the series presents the main data of the environment and energy management. The English extract from the publication is available here: Hungary, 2024, and the full Hungarian-language version here: Magyarország, 2024.

The performance of the Hungarian economy in the 1st quarter of 2025 was identical with the same period of the previous year’s level. Increasing performance in the service sector as well as the growth in consumption had a positive impact on the GDP. The continuing setback of the industry and construction, a subdued investment activity, the deterioration in the balance of the external trade counterbalanced this trend. Regarding the labour market, employment rate – considering the 1st quarters’ values – was the highest ever, while the unemployment rate lessened.

Hungary’s GDP increased by 0.5% amid global challenges in 2024. The performance of goods-producing industries lessened, while that of service-providing ones rose, which shows the duality of economic trends. Household consumption picked up, which was considerably encouraged by the purchasing power of earnings growing again with the inflationary wave calming down. Besides, the data series reveal that the level of employment reached another peak.

The importance and popularity of solar electricity production grows year by year. It made up already one-third of all electricity produced in Hungary in June 2024. The capacity of solar power systems per inhabitant was the highest in Southern Great Plain, in districts around Lake Balaton and in agglomerations of large towns at the end of 2023. By contrast, it was the lowest in districts of the capital city, in less developed areas along the national boundary as well as in the inner periphery of the Central Tisza Region.

Hungary’s energy needs were lower each month from April 2022 than a year earlier, and decreased at rates higher than 10% from September 2022 to March 2023 – except for February. The use fell by 16% this March, partly owing to the lower industrial output then than in the same month of the previous year and to the milder-than-usual weather. Energy consumption was 15% lower in the first three months of 2023 as a whole than in the corresponding period of 2022.