Denomination Number of the unemployed
2024 2025
January–March April–June July–September October–December January–March April–June July–September October–December
Total number of the unemployed 226.8 213.9 224.6 216.3 212.8 218.6 221.5
Highest educational attainment
at most primary school 75.7 72.4 59.9 65.6 70.1 59.7 60.8
vocational and apprentice school 58.1 55.3 57.1 56.6 56.3 61.6 51.8
grammar and other secondary school 63.5 61.7 75.0 65.6 61.6 63.6 73.2
college and university 29.6 24.6 32.6 28.6 24.7 33.8 35.7
Region of residence
Budapest 22.9 20.2 30.0 24.2 26.4 33.9 31.9
Pest 23.4 16.0 23.0 23.8 18.9 21.1 21.7
Central Transdanubia 15.9 16.3 13.8 14.5 14.8 19.0 17.3
Western Transdanubia 13.7 17.1 17.5 18.5 15.6 12.9 17.0
Southern Transdanubia 31.1 27.7 32.6 26.3 25.5 26.9 25.3
Northern Hungary 38.9 36.2 33.1 34.5 35.6 36.5 35.5
Northern Great Plain 51.1 53.7 45.8 46.4 44.4 41.5 43.7
Southern Great Plain 29.8 26.8 28.9 28.1 31.5 26.6 29.1
Economic activity a year before
was working 86.8 80.1 66.6 67.8 77.2 96.5 80.7
was unemployed 97.9 95.0 100.3 103.9 98.9 86.8 94.5
was economically inactive 42.1 38.9 57.7 44.6 36.6 35.3 46.3
of which: student 15.0 15.8 29.7 17.2 12.5 16.5 27.6
Reason for leave of previous workplace
lost job, or own business bankrupted 75.6 78.1 70.5 73.2 69.7 77.7 78.4
quit job, ceased business 45.2 38.0 40.8 41.9 40.8 45.1 44.2
seasonal work terminated 17.3 16.4 15.1 18.4 21.1 14.7 15.6
public work terminated 15.5 17.2 11.3 12.4 13.9 10.4 11.6
family responsibilities 3.8 2.8 3.4 3.0 2.8 3.7 3.3
othera 36.1 33.2 35.3 32.4 34.4 30.2 26.3
never had regular work 33.4 28.3 48.2 35.0 30.0 37.0 42.0
Industry of the previous employer
agriculture 11.1 9.0 5.9 6.9 7.3 5.8 6.0
industry 62.2 61.9 57.3 57.1 59.6 64.3 64.1
of which:
C manufacturing 39.5 40.0 34.5 38.8 40.2 42.5 40.5
F construction 18.1 19.7 19.1 15.5 16.7 18.4 21.7
services 103.9 100.1 99.3 101.4 99.7 98.2 98.5
of wich:
G–N market services 65.8 58.7 61.5 60.1 59.7 61.7 60.7
O–Q social public services 31.4 36.4 32.3 34.0 30.3 28.3 31.1
people who did not work in last 8 years or never had regular work or unknown 49.5 42.9 62.1 50.9 46.2 50.4 52.8

Footnotes

*From 25 October 2024 onwards, the Labour Force Survey estimates are produced using population projections based on the 2022 Census. The data has been extrapolated back to 2018 using the new base. Data of labour force survey refer to the population aged 15–74. From 1 January 2025, the NACE Rev.2. classification is based on the economic activity of the local unit of the employer enterprise or business, instead of the economic activity of the employer enterprise or business. The time series have been revised back to 2018, so the data for the period 1992–2017 and for the period 2018 and beyond are not directly comparable. From 1 January 2025, the highest level of education is based on the nationally recognized vocational qualifications. Before 2025, only qualifications obtained in formal education are taken into account. Source: labour force survey, HCSO.
aIncluding those who are absent from work because of being on child-care and looking for another job, and those persons who didn’t work in their main job more than 3 months and for this period they received no salary or other payment, or in case they have received it does not reach the half of the usual salary.

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Break in series (limited comparability).
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Revised datum.
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