Environment, public utilities
Environmental statistics covers data on natural resources (e.g. mineral resources, water resources), the load of the environment (e.g. air pollution, sewage treatment, waste management), environmental quality (quality of e.g. air, water or soil), nature protection (e.g. protected areas, protected species) and environmental protection (e.g. environmental investments, environmental expenditures, environmental taxes). It shows the state and the load of the environment, and quantifies efforts against the load of the environment. Public utilities statistics covers statistical data on public utilities (electricity, gas, purchased heat, drinking water, sewage, waste) in settlements.
Key figures
Emissions of carbon dioxide
Indicator description
Emissions of carbon dioxide in a particular year (excluding carbon dioxide from biomass).
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2019
Emissions of suspended dust with a diameter of less than 2.5 µm
Indicator description
Emissions of particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 µm by anthropogenic (industrial, transport, agricultural and public utilities) sources.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2019
Annual water consumption per capita
Indicator description
The indicator shows the quantity of annual water consumption in cubic metres per inhabitant. Drinking and household water needs of the population can be satisfied and the supply of water of drinking water quality to enterprises, public institutions and smaller industrial plants can be ensured by own water works of plants or institutions, from private or common wells and from public water conduits.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2020
Proportion of forests that are healthy in terms of defoliation
Indicator description
Area of forests with a foliage density considered as ideal in a particular habitat, as a proportion of total forest area.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2020
Featured
Wild boar stock decreases further
There was a decrease in the stocks of major big game species in Hungary (red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, mouflon and wild boar) by the spring of 2021 compared to a year earlier. The largest fall (of 22%) was recorded for the wild boar stock, mostly as an impact of the African swine fever and the larger bag aimed to prevent the illness from further spreading. Out of small game species, the number of hares and pheasants rose in the last three years.
Average household electricity consumption in 2020 was the highest since the turn of the millennium
In Hungary, the monthly average electricity consumption per household was 189 kilowatt-hours in 2020, the highest in the last 20 years. Pest County’s 240 kWh figure was significantly higher than the national average. On average, a household consumer used 91 m3 of piped gas per month, more than in most years of the 2010s.
Close to six-tenth of Hungary’s forests are state-owned
One-fifth of our country’s territory (2 million 60 thousand hectares) was forest management area at the end of 2020. In Hungary 56% of the forest management area was state owned, 43% private ownership, further 1.0% was community owned. There was no significant change in the owneship structure of forests in the last decade.
A small part of Hungary exposed to drought in 2020
There have been merely five years since 2000 when there has not been a drought in Hungary. At the same time, the proportion of areas exposed to drought reached 80% in six years during these two decades. 2017–2019 were years particularly hit by lack of precipitation. Drought reigned in the spring of 2020, too, yet the more-than-average precipitation in the summer months later on made up for the lack of water for the most part. Drought was seen on 310 thousand hectares in total in 2020, so the proportion of areas exposed to drought was 3.3%.
Indicators of sustainable development for Hungary, 2018
In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, and gave the impetus to the integration of the concept of sustainable development into national and global policies. In Hungary, the National Sustainable Development Council (NFFT, established in 2007) developed the Hungarian National Sustainable Development Framework Strategy, which was adopted by the Parliament in 2013. The framework strategy aims to provide a nationwide, long-term guide for individual and community action. Compared to the strategy of the European Union or the UN SDGs, the Hungarian framework strategy interprets the concept of sustainability much more narrowly. In this interpretation, sustainable development policy is primarily a long-term resource management activity in which it distinguishes four resources: human, social, natural and economic resources.
Related themes
Publications |
Released |
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Hungary, 3rd quarters 2021 | 04/02/2022 |
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2020 | 22/12/2021 |
Hungary, 2nd quarters 2021 | 22/11/2021 |
Hungary, 2020 | 18/11/2021 |
Hungary, 1st quarters 2021 | 18/11/2021 |
Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2020 | 03/09/2021 |
Statistical pocketbook of Hungary, 2020 | 05/07/2021 |
Hungary, 1st–3rd quarters 2020 | 01/02/2021 |
Hungary, 2020 Q2 | 26/01/2021 |
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2019 | 18/12/2020 |
Hungary, 2019 | 10/12/2020 |
Hungary, 1st quarters 2020 | 19/10/2020 |
Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2019 | 25/09/2020 |
Statistical pocketbook of Hungary, 2019 | 01/07/2020 |