Industry

Statistics on industry comprises three sections (mining and quarrying, manufacturing, energy industry). Extraction of natural minerals, transformation of basic materials and products into new products, electricity, gas, steam, hot water supply are defined as industrial activities. Beside industry significantly influencing economic performance, the division group also has an important role in employment. Industrial statistics offers information – beside production data – about sales directions (domestic and export sales) as well as about orders relating to industrial products and services and their change over time.

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Industrial production stagnated; Industry, March 2025 (second estimate)

The volume of industrial production remained in March 2025 at the same month of the previous year’s level, while, based on working-day adjusted data, it lessened by 5.4% year-on-year. Compared to crude data, the significant difference is due to the fact that there were two more working-days in this month than in March 2024. Production dropped in the majority of manufacturing subsections, at the highest rate in the manufacture of electrical equipment. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data, industrial output was 0.1% higher than in February 2025.

Hungary 1st-3rd quarters of 2024 – Increasing consumption

The performance of the Hungarian economy surpassed in the 1st – 3rd quarters of 2024 the one year earlier level by 0.6%. Household consumption increased, supported by real earnings growth, while inflation stabilised, being 3.7% in the 1st – 3rd quarters. The performance of most service offering sections and that of construction grew year-on-year, while that of the industry and agriculture lagged behind the one year earlier level. Labour market-wise both employment and unemployment rate slightly grew.

Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2023

The yearbook provides an overview of Hungary's demographic, social and economic processes, environmental characteristics and their changes over time, with the help of tens of thousands of data of 500 tables, graphs and maps. Innovatively, the Tourism, catering chapter in the volume includes the gross receipts of tourist accommodation establishments by type of accommodation. Another change is that this year the Regional data chapter already presents territorial data by tourism area, giving greater emphasis to tourist destinations.

Snapshots, 2023 - Industry

The volume of industrial production lagged behind the previous year’s level by 5.5% in 2023. Output lessened in manufacturing – providing the overwhelming majority of production -, too, it increased in three subsections only, to the greatest extent in the manufacturing of electrical equipment, followed by the largest weight carrying vehicle production. Food industry growth, lasting for years, halted, and – mainly due to the decreasing demand induced by a high food-price inflation level– production volume fell.

Hungary, 2023

Geopolitical tensions continued to overshadow economic developments in 2023, with the gross domestic product falling by 0.9%. Inflationary pressures gradually eased, but the 17.6% annual increase in consumer prices led to a decline in real earnings and consumption, and negatively affected investment decisions. Despite the economic difficulties, employment has reached a record high. In 2023, the number of deaths and births continued to fall, in addition to the decrease in the number of women of childbearing age.