It is exceptionally important to us to provide more up-to-date information on the social and economic developments in our country, in addition to our regular and detailed publications.
Our WEEKLY MONITOR provides insights into trends in key areas through weekly, monthly and quarterly data from our interactive chart collection.
Most WEEKLY MONITOR charts can also be downloaded in image and data formats (PNG, SVG and CSV).

Latest update: 21.09.2021.

The dashboard contains monthly and quarterly indicators form a number of statistical areas relevant for tracking the economic and social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, across countries and time. The January edition of the monthly updated dashboard is accessible here, with the latest available data for each indicator.
17/09/2021

In the second quarter of 2021, both domestic freight and passenger transport performance increased compared to the low base of the previous year, but remained below the pre-pandemic level, especially for passenger transport. Although international passenger numbers and performance increased significantly compared to a year earlier, they were still a fraction of Q2 2019. Nearly 30% more cars (64 thousand) were registered for the first time than last year, but 19% fewer than two years earlier.
15/09/2021

Socio-economic developments in 2020 were significantly affected by the Covid19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it. Besides presenting these, we have added some new content to our latest statistical yearbook. You can find out, for example, that six tenths of the founders of start-ups in Hungary have a tertiary education and 7.9% are under 25. In 2020, the average rent for an apartment was HUF 144,000, with an average rent in Budapest of HUF 160,000.
03/09/2021

Agricultural producer prices were 14% higher in the 1st half of 2021 than in the same period of the previous year. This was due to a 23% increase in crop product prices, the price of live animals and animal products was reduced by 1.8%. As an effect of the keen international demand, cereals and oil crops became significantly more expensive (by 34% and 41%, respectively). A price increase was recorded for all major components of agricultural inputs, the highest one (22%) for animal feedingstuffs.
25/08/2021

Rents continued to rise: they increased by 2.7% nationally and by 2.4% in Budapest in July compared to the previous month. The biggest increase among the capital's districts was recorded in the inner districts of Pest (3.7%). Rental prices in Budapest were on average 9.2% lower than the peak in January 2020, while in the rest of the country rents have already risen above pre-pandemic levels.
24/08/2021

Housing market activity rebounded in Q1 2021, after the pandemic period last year. The recovery that started in 2014 came to a halt in 2019, with the housing market responding to the successive Covid19 waves in 2020, first with a sharp and then with a more moderate decline. New home prices continued to rise at a similar pace as before, while growth in second-hand home prices slowed down and barely exceeded the general increase in consumer prices. Home prices, both new and second-hand, rose by 5.8% in Q1 2021 on Q4 2020.

10/08/2021