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.
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Latest update: 26.05.2022.

Sales in the housing market expanded by nearly a fifth in 2021, after a decline in 2020 due to the Covid19 pandemic, and exceeded the pre-pandemic level of 2019 by 3.7%. Prices have also risen rapidly, with home prices in Q4 more than a fifth higher than in the same period of the previous year and more than double the level in 2015. A new home cost on average HUF 8 million more and a second-hand one HUF 2.6 million more than in 2020.
19/05/2022

The HUF 4.6 billion housing loan stock at the end of 2021, which accounted for 8.3% of GDP, exceeded the 2010 peak in nominal terms. Both the number and amount of approvals and disbursements increased, with those for housing modernisation being particularly strong. The availability of the moratorium on repayments, introduced to mitigate the effects of the epidemic, was tightened in the second half of 2021, with only 6.8% of housing loans benefiting from it, down from 29% in the first half of the year.
17/05/2022

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 monthly updated chart collection with the latest available data for each indicator is available here.
17/05/2022

A historic record production of barley was harvested in 2021 and a larger quantity of wheat than in the previous year. The production of sunflower, with being harvested from a slightly larger area, resulted in a yield identical to that in the previous year. Both the harvested area and the production of rape were smaller than in the previous year. The summer heat led to the lowest maize production in the last three decades. A significant increase was recorded in the procurement price of all major arable crops compared to 2020.
05/05/2022

Rents rose at an accelerating pace in March, up 2.3% nationally and 2.9% in Budapest compared to the previous month. In the capital, asking rents were on average 19% higher than a year earlier, with the largest increase (23%) in the inner districts of Pest. Budapest's rent index exceeded its January 2020 peak for the first time this month, with apartments for rent 1.2% more expensive than before the epidemic.
03/05/2022

The deficit of the general government sector was HUF 3,743 billion, 6.8% of GDP in 2021 based on preliminary data of national accounts. According to data produced in compliance with the methodological requirements of the system of national accounts (ESA 2010) the revenue of the general government sector was HUF 22,735 billion and its expenditure HUF 26 478 billion. Compared to 2020 revenues increased by 8.5% and expenditures by 7.1%.
22/04/2022

In 2020, there were 60,673 nonprofit organisations in Hungary, little fewer than a year earlier. One-third of them functioned as foundations and two-thirds as community nonprofit organisations. Practically, the determining factors of the sector remained unchanged: classical NGOs were in the highest number, while nonprofit enterprises realised the highest revenues. In connection with the pandemic, the number of volunteers for NGOs decreased by 15%, compared to 2019.