Culture

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In spite of digital content proliferation, the magic of movies still draws millions of people to the movie theatres. In Hungary, 378 new feature films were released in 2024 – 6% more than in the previous year – out of these 47 were Hungarian feature films. The first Hungarian movie (Béla Zsitkovszky and Gyula Pekár's The Dance) premiered in 1901, while in recent times (from the end of 2024 to the present day) news reported about the triumph of two Hungarian films.

January 22 is the Day of Hungarian Culture since 1989, in memory of the day when Ferenc Kölcsey completed the manuscript of the Anthem in 1823. The holiday aims to draw attention to the values of Hungarian culture. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 2025 to László Krasznahorkai, the second Hungarian writer to receive this prestigious prize. The total number of published literary, young adults' and children's books by Hungarian authors exceeded between the first and the third quarters of 2025, too, those published by foreign ones.

14,298 books have been published in Hungary in 2024, in 30 million copies.
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Hungarian radio broadcasting is 100-year-old. The first broadcast started on 1 December 1925 with a festive concert. The popularity of music programs is continuous ever since, their share in the total broadcast time was 62% in 2024.An ever-growing proportion of Hungary’ cinema seats – 42% in 2024 – are concentrated in multiplex cinemas with 8 or more auditoriums. Attendance of Hungarian films broke the record this year, out of the 10.7 million cinema tickets sold 14.5% were for domestic films.

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic trends, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data in some 500 tables, charts and maps. In the chapter devoted to earnings and incomes, it is a novelty compared to previous years that net earnings in which allowances and types of exemptions are accounted for, too, came into focus from 2019. In the number of employees, people working in working time shorter than 60 working hours per month are also taken into account. In addition, the theme of environment is completed with areas declared world heritage sites by UNESCO.

Datasets from the Dissemination Database regarding settlements and Budapest’s districts have been updated with 2022 data, as such settlement and district related data for 2022 are available since 31 August, concerning, among others, data on cinemas.