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Latest update: 03/07/2025

Over 1 million people received the family allowance on a universal basis in 2024. The role of child care benefit among family benefits is growing, thanks also to the increased possibility to work while receiving child care benefit. Nearly 70 thousand children were registered at risk, of whom 31 thousand minors were taken into child protection by guardianship authorities, which was the highest value in the last 10 years. The focus shifted from institutional care to placement with foster parents, with a significant increase in the role of churches.
08/07/2025

Consumer prices were up by 3.7% on average in 2024 compared to the previous year, and the rate of price rise significantly decreased compared to the 2023 figure (17.6%), being a 25-year peak. The deceleration in inflation was influenced by the rate of increase in industrial, construction and services prices going on lessening, and agricultural product prices going down again on average. External trade prices expressed in forints slightly rose, and minor deterioration occurred in terms of trade.
07/07/2025

July 7 is the World Chocolate Day. Hungary exported 28 thousand tonnes of chocolate in 2024, more than half of these were filled chocolate bars and solid chocolate ones. One-fifth of the approximately 50 thousand tonnes of imported chocolate was white chocolate.
07/07/2025

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 first infographic in the series presents the main data of the macroeconomic environment. The English extract from the publication is available here: Hungary, 2024, and the full Hungarian-language version here: Magyarország, 2024.
04/07/2025

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.
01/07/2025

The volume of domestic industrial production was 4.0% lower in 2024 year-on-year. Output lessened in nine of the – great majority of production ensuring - manufacturing subsections, most of all in the manufacture of electrical equipment. Output in the largest weight representing vehicle production decreased as well. Food industry, however, enhanced its performance.
01/07/2025

According to popular tradition, 29 June, Peter’s and Paul’s Day, is the beginning of harvest, wheat becoming ready for cutting around that day. Hungary is one of the pantries of Europe, a substantial part of the production of a quantity amply exceeding the internal demand (typically some half of wheat) being sold on external markets. Following the decline after the regime change, the domestic average yields of ear cereals dynamically rose, which is proven by all of the 10 years with the highest specific yield for barley and rye and seven years – including the record, 2021 – for wheat following 2010.
27/06/2025

In May 2025, rents increased by 0.8% in Hungary and decreased by 0.2% in Budapest compared to the previous month. The May rent index exceeded the 2015 base by 120% nationally and 109% in the capital in nominal terms, and by 28% and 22% in real terms, respectively. Over a year, nominal rents increased by 7-8% and real rents by 2-3%.
20/06/2025

The volume of Hungary’s export of goods lessened in 2024 by 2.1%, its import by 3.7%. At the same time the balance of the external trade of goods improved by 1.2 thousand billion HUF, showing a surplus of 4.6 thousand billion HUF. The value of the export in services grew by 6.8%, that of its import by 5.3%, generating a 4.4 thousand billion HUF surplus, 404 billion more than in 2023.
18/06/2025