Health care, accidents

In addition to lifestyle factors, health status is significantly influenced by the preparedness of the health care system. Health statistics provides data on the health status of the population, the presence of lifestyle risks having the strongest impact on the health of the population, the most common diseases and on how much the population does for their health. It monitors changes in the material, personnel and financial conditions that ensure the functioning of the different levels of the care system. Accident statistics takes account of traffic accidents in the country, in particular, it deals with road traffic accidents causing personal injury.

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Snapshots, 2024 - Health care

In 2024, nearly two-thirds of the Hungarian population aged 16 and older were satisfied with their health; men felt this way at a rate almost 6 percentage points higher than women. In connection with the healthcare wage increases of recent years, the number of active physicians per ten thousand inhabitants increased from 44 to 45 in one year. At the same time, the number of general practitioners and family paediatricians continued to decrease; their number was 5,469 in 2024, an average of 5.7 per ten thousand inhabitants.

HCSO Monitor

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!

Smoke-Free World Day, 20 November 2025

The idea of the smoke-free day started in the 1970s in the United States, with the goal of helping smokers in quitting. Due to the American success a smoke-free day is observed every year around the world on the third Thursday of November. The proportion of smokers in Hungary is still above the EU average. Sale of tobacco products had a 6.7% share in our domestic retail turnover of 2024. The import of tobacco and tobacco substitute products is greater than their export within the external trade.

Hungary 1st semester of 2025 – Diverging economic impacts

The performance of Hungary’s economy was identical with the one of the same period of the previous year. The increasing performance of the services sector and consumption growth had a positive impact on GDP. These impacts however have been eliminated by the setback of the industry and agriculture, the continuously subdued investment activity and the deterioration in the balance of the external trade in goods. Retail trade volume continued to rise, tourism nights spent at accommodation establishments also increased in number.

Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2024

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.

Yearbooks, pocketbooks, data repositories

A new sub-page has been added to the HCSO website, more than 400 yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections, a total of a hundred thousand pdf format pages close to 150 thousand excel tables and several thousand static and interactive graphs and maps are available for download. The sub-page offers the possibility of filtering these yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections by reference year, serial name, format (PDF, XLS) and supplements (graphs, maps). Users may compile their own list of publications based on the year- and pocketbooks, data collections, adequate to their interests.

World Breastfeeding Day

In 1992, the World Health Organisation declared 1 August as World Breastfeeding Day to raise awareness about the importance of breastfeeding. According to the most recent data, 48% of infants under six months of age were exclusively breastfed globally. This proportion was the highest in South Asia (60%), the lowest in North America (26%) and 37% in Hungary.

Hungary, 2024

Hungary’s GDP increased by 0.5% amid global challenges in 2024. The performance of goods-producing industries lessened, while that of service-providing ones rose, which shows the duality of economic trends. Household consumption picked up, which was considerably encouraged by the purchasing power of earnings growing again with the inflationary wave calming down. Besides, the data series reveal that the level of employment reached another peak.

Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary, 2024

The tables and charts in the latest edition of the Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary provide a comprehensive insight into the development of social and economic trends in Hungary during the year 2024. It aims to provide a summary picture of the country's situation in all possible areas based on preliminary indicators. Within the number of employees, this year's pocketbook also includes employed persons working less than 60 hours, and the gross revenues at tourist accommodation establishments.

Findings of the European Health Interview Surveys in one place

Health interview surveys to be conducted every five years allow us to monitor the changes in the health status of the population and reveal the correlations between health status and the background factors influencing that. Due to the users’ increased interest, we acquaint the general public with the results of the three most recent surveys in our now published table collection – following extensive data processing – in a comparable manner, classified in 11 themes, together with the methodology.