Regional data

Regional statistics offers data relating to units of area, settlements, about economic, social and environmental phenomena, processes, respectively contributes to regional impoundment. The goal of regional statistics is to provide reference, information for users by making public regionally detailed data originating from the HCSO data collection system, as well as data and information taken over from external bodies. It incorporates detailed and comprehensive statistics about the situation and development of regions, counties, districts, settlements and units of area outside administrative boundaries (e.g. in-settlements georeferenced data).

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Settlement and district related data regarding 2022 are presented here

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 resident population, vital events, hospitals and road traffic accidents. The complete list of the topics to may be found on the front page of the datasets.

Regional Statistics, Volume 13, Number 4, 2023

The most recent issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: digital skill-based centre-periphery differences in Europe, the relationship between socioeconomic development and corruption of 139 coutries, regional similarities in South America, the estimations of pooled dynamic panel data model for Sub-Saharan Africa, income distribution and environmental pollution in Iran, the impact of the Asian services trade partnership on the economic growth in Russia, trends in income inequality in Hungary, an adaptation of the basic resilience indicators for communities.

Still significant differences in state of development within Hungary

Although the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic recovery had differing impacts on the different regions in Hungary, they did not redraw the long-existing differences in the state of development. In 2021, GDP per capita continued to be over twice as high in Budapest as and less than the half in Nógrád County of the national average of 5.7 million forints. GDP per capita, as a proportion of the average, rose the most significantly in Fejér County and decreased the most in Győr-Moson-Sopron County compared to a year earlier.

Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2021

Our publication, focusing on regional comparisons, presenting these with tables and maps, highlights the still existing significant regional differences among separate parts of the country. This is particularly true in the case of the key significance representing labour market: there are marked differences between Budapest and Győr-Moson-Sopron county, having the best employment and earning markings and Nógrád and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties with the poorest such indices. Our publication is published with an online appendix, with graphs and maps alongside the tables.

Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary updated

The Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary is a repository of the name and data of localities in Hungary, which contains information already according to the administrative status of 1 January 2022. So both Kiskunlacháza and Nyírbogát have a town status due to the conferment of town titles in 2021. By searching for the desired settlement on the start page of the application, one can find the settlement’s location and most important data such as the latest information on the resident population, the dwelling stock and the area.