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Latest update: 26/06/2025

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

In Hungary, the adoption of children was first regulated in detail in Act IV of 1952, which focused on the replacement of the family instead of the previous property and inheritance aspects. The constantly changing legislation aimed to increase efficiency and speed up the process. As a result, a record number of 1,291 children were placed with adoptive parents in 2024. However, the number of adoptable children has not changed, with more than 2,000 children still waiting for the opportunity to find their adoptive family.
18/06/2025

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.
17/06/2025

The domestic housing market continued to expand in the fourth quarter of 2024, with the number of sales 22% higher than in the same period of the previous year. After a strong increase in Q1, housing prices continued to rise at a more moderate pace. In Q4, the price of dwellings rose by 1.6% compared to the previous quarter. Over a year, prices rose by 13% in nominal terms and by 8.9% in real terms, the latter by 8.7% for second-hand dwellings and 10% for new dwellings.
06/06/2025

In Hungary, fewer children were born in 2024 than a year earlier. The number of deaths also declined, but to a lesser extent than the number of births, so the rate of natural decrease accelerated. A lower surplus of international migration than in the previous year slightly reduced the population decrease, and the country's population fell by 45 thousand people. The number of marriages fell short of the previous year, while the number of divorces slightly exceeded it.
04/06/2025

The current issue of the Hungarian Statistical Review of HCSO publishes articles covering topics on the structure and performance of the Budapest office market, with a focus on greening; the relationship between education and economic growth in Uzbekistan using the Vector Autoregressive model; the impact of women's empowerment on Sudanese households; and the examination of entrepreneurial intentions among university students in Laos, focusing on the mediating role of perceived university support within the planned behaviour theory framework.
03/06/2025

The latest issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: men’s overrepresentation and the untapped potential of women in STEM fields; the economic recovery of NUTS2 regions in the V4 countries after the Covid-19 pandemic; evaluating China’s high-quality economic development model; a case study on minority Hungarians; designing and implementing a software for measuring the national power of countries; grassland management survey on farms in Hungary; differences in electric vehicle battery industry development in the EU; application of cluster analysis during the EU inflation crisis.
02/06/2025