At the initiative of the UN, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities has been celebrated every year on December 3 since 1992. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that today 16% of the world's population, or 1.3 billion people, live with a significant disability. Their number is increasing, which is linked to the higher prevalence of non-communicable diseases and people’s longer life expectancy. In Hungary, more than one fifth of the population aged 16 and over lived with some level of disability in 2023, which is lower than the EU average.
03/12/2024

Significant events in village life were pig slaughter and pig slaughter feasts, which started traditionally on 30 November, Andrew’s Day. Not only the immediate family took part in the all-day work, but it was also a custom to invite neighbours, relatives and friends. The circumstances of pig keeping and pig slaughtering substantially changed in the last decades. The number of small farms fell, and that of domestic slaughtering shows a decreasing trend. In 2023, three-quarters of Hungary’s pig population of 2.5 million belonged to pig keepers each having a population exceeding 5,000 pigs.
29/11/2024

The latest issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: climate change mitigation actions on food prices in developing countries; trends in the digitalisation index cluster; spatial planning’s impact on land transformation in Selangor State, Malaysia; impact of financial development on international trade in BRICS countries; the role of initial and structural factors in local convergence club formation in Hungary; China’s anti-corruption efforts on local governments’ fiscal position; the DESI and SDG index in the EU and V4; digital literacy and capability to manage e-government in Hungary.
28/11/2024

The collection of interactive figures provides up-to-date information on the latest domestic and international socio-economic trends.
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Latest update: 28/11/2024

The publication sums up main demographic, social and economic indices of counties and regions, and presents certain data of EU regions as well. Territorial comparison is in the focus of the yearbook, presenting them through tables and maps. Revenues of accommodation establishments is a new feature of the Tourism, hospitality chapter. Our publication comes with an online annex, displaying tables, graphs and maps.
27/11/2024

The chart collection contains monthly and quarterly indicators of economic and social developments by country and over time. The monthly updated chart collection with the latest available data for each indicator is available here.
21/11/2024

The idea of the smoke free day originated in the United States with the aim of helping, assisting people in quitting smoking. On the initiative of the WHO the third Thursday of November was declared smoke-free day on international level. Our smoking habits have a strong impact on out health. The proportion of smokers decreased in Hungary during the last decade, still, this ratio remains high in international comparison.
21/11/2024

180 years ago, on 13 November 1844, the Hungarian language also became an official language of the Monarchy by decree of King Ferdinand V. To commemorate this event, in 2011, the Hungarian Parliament declared 13 November Hungarian Language Day, drawing attention to the Hungarian language, which binds all Hungarians together and is the basis of national identity. It is a language that is unique among European languages with its thirty-nine different sounds, and it is considered one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn because of its many grammatical exceptions.
13/11/2024

We commemorate Prince Saint Emeric, the son of King Saint Stephen and Queen Gisela the Blessed, the patron saint of Hungarian youth on 5 November. On 1 January 2024, the number of young people aged 16–29 in Hungary was around 1.5 million, representing 15.3% of the population. Their labour market situation has improved significantly in the past period; the employment rate of recently graduated young people aged 20–34 with at least secondary education has exceeded the EU average every year since 2014.
05/11/2024

In 2023, in addition to a record number of 68 thousand sport hunters, nearly 3 thousand professional hunters performed tasks of wildlife management and wildlife protection management in Hungary. Out of the 50 best antlered deer trophies in Hungary so far, 20 were taken in Zala County, 11 in Somogy County, and 15-15 of the best fallow deer trophies were taken in Hajdú-Bihar and Tolna Counties. The revenues of hunting companies from shooting for hire and the provision of related services increased to a peak value of HUF 18.2 billion in 2023.
31/10/2024