Culture

The collection of interactive figures provides up-to-date information on the latest domestic and international socio-economic trends. The decisive part of the figures included in HCSO Monitor are downloadable in both image and data formats (PNG, SVG and CSV). Feel free to browse the data in HCSO Monitor, updated many times a week!

The total time spent on reading by individuals aged 15 to 74 has halved in three decades.
Unfortunately, this amounts to only 16 minutes (preliminary data) a day.
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The tournament of European elite men’s clubs (formerly named European Champion Clubs’ Cup) has been organised by UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations every year since 1955. The final of the event, named Champions League since the 1992/93 season, will be held for the first time in Hungary. The match will take place on 30 May 2026 in Budapest, in the Puskás Aréna – named after Ferenc Puskás, the legendary, three-time European Cup winner footballer –, where Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain will fight for the trophy, and the latter as the defending champion.

László Papp – affectionately known as “Papp Laci” by the nation – was born on 25 March 1926. He won his first Olympic gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1948 London Games, then triumphed again in light middleweight in Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956). With these victories, he became the first boxer in history to win gold at three consecutive Olympic Games. As a professional, he captured the European middleweight title in 1962 and went on to defend it six times. Out of his 29 professional bouts, he won 27, including 11 by knockout.

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.

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.