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Latest update: 05/09/2024

The Literacy Day, initiated by UNESCO, is celebrated since every year on 8 September, in order to draw attention to the importance of reading and writing skills. In Hungary 44% of the adult population was reading on a regular basis or occasionally in 2023. The number of bookstores is decreasing year after year, the similar turnover trend at libraries – following the setback caused by the Covid pandemic – reversed and started to grow in 2022 and 2023, still, it did not reach the 2019 level.
06/09/2024

Pope Urban V signed the deed of foundation of the University of Pécs on 1 September 1367, this day - 1 September - becoming, since 1994, the Day of Pécs (furthermore, the Day of Hungarian Higher Education, since 2017). The city with 140 thousand inhabitants is the largest settlement of Transdanubia and the 5th largest among Hungary’s settlements. A significant part of the industrial establishments ceased following the regime change, still, today Pécs is an outstanding educational, cultural and tourism centre.
30/08/2024

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic processes, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data of 500 tables, graphs and maps. Innovatively, the Tourism, catering chapter in the volume includes the gross receipts of tourist accommodation establishments by type of accommodation. Another change is that this year the Regional data chapter already presents territorial data by tourism area, giving greater emphasis to tourist destinations.
29/08/2024

The most recent issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: modified spatial cross-correlation measure for time-dependent spatial panel data, measuring food security in Europe, determinants of contract farming participation among farmers in Kosovo, aspects for increasing the productivity of single-industry towns in Kazakhstan, impact of Covid-19 on earnings management in Europe, socio-economic and development disparities in Turkey, statistical analysis of QS World University Rankings 2021 using Scopus and SciVal databases, population views of community pharmacists during Covid-19 in Jordan and Kuwait.
29/08/2024

According to preliminary data, the amount of R&D expenditure exceeded HUF 1,000 billion in Hungary in 2023, increasing by 12% at current prices compared to a year earlier. R&D expenditure as a proportion of GDP (1.38%) was unchanged in effect. 30% of enterprises in Hungary performed innovation activities between 2020 and 2022. 22% of the observed enterprises introduced business process innovation and some 19% product innovation, so 27% of the enterprises can be considered as innovative enterprises.
27/08/2024

The number of fixed connection internet subscriptions in Hungary came close to 3.6 million in 2023, increasing by 1.3% year-on-year. The growth has been impacted by the 12% rise in the optical group. Download data traffic grew by 25%, the upload one by 6.0%, both reaching record high values. The number of SIM cards for mobile phone and/or mobile internet services – continuing the previous years’ expansion – came close by the end of 2023 to 14.2 million.
23/08/2024

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21/08/2024

20 August is the day of King St. Stephen and the foundation of the state, and also the feast of the ‘new bread’. One of the events of the day is the consecration and then the breaking of a bread baked from new wheat and tied with a patriotic. This year, based on the estimated data, 5,231 thousand tonnes of wheat were produced in Hungary. Bread is a staple food and a key part of our eating habits. In 2024, the volume of fresh bread produced is expected to reach 330 thousand tonnes.
16/08/2024

Asking rents in Hungary continued to rise in July 2024: they were 1.8% higher nationally and 1.4% higher in Budapest in one month. The nominal rent index in July was 112% higher nationally and 101% higher in the capital, while in real terms it was 28% and 21% higher than the 2015 base.
13/08/2024