Transport

Transport statistics is about performances related to forwarding goods and the spatial movement of persons. Statistics on the movement of people have two main areas: interurban passenger transport (public transport between two settlements) and local passenger transport (public transport within a settlement). It also monitors the transport infrastructure involving rolling stock (e.g. number of passenger cars, buses) and built infrastructure (e.g. length of motorways, railway lines). Accident statistics take into account accidents in the country, with a special focus on road traffic accidents causing personal injury.

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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!

Hungary 2024 – The Sectoral Overview

Our series of infographics, based on the most important data from the Hungarian-language publication Hungary, 2024 provides a comprehensive picture of the social and economic state of our country and the main characteristics of our environment. The next infographic in the series presents the main data of the sectoral overview. The English extract from the publication is available here: Hungary, 2024, and the full Hungarian-language version here: Magyarország, 2024.

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.

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport turns 75

In 2025, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport celebrates its 75th anniversary. The airport, which started operating in 1943, was rebuilt after suffering severe damage in the Second World War and the inauguration ceremony of the new complex took place on 7 May 1950. The initial passenger traffic of 50 thousand rose to 17.6 million in 2024, surpassing the record year before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Record passenger traffic at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport

Passenger traffic at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport has exceeded the same period of the previous year in every month since April 2021. Nearly 1.3 million passengers passed through the airport in January 2025, up 17.5% year-on-year and an all-time high for the first month. This is more passengers in one month than the total for the period between April 2020 and March 2021, which was heavily affected by the coronavirus epidemic.

The 20 most popular car brands in Hungary, 1963-2023

In 60 years, the number of passenger cars increased in Hungary 60-fold, (from 70 thousand to 4.2 million). Half of the early 1960s cars were Škoda, Moskvitch, or Trabant, by adding Lada and Wartburg, too, these five brands were present mostly on the roads of Hungary; Polski Fiat and Dacia joined the group in the 1980s. Since 1975 Lada was sold in the largest numbers; following the regime change, however, Western European (with Opel in the forefront) then Far Eastern passenger cars gradually replaced the late Comecon brands.

Snapshots, 2023 - Transport

In 2023, the performance of freight transport decreased in Hungary, while local and interurban passenger transport increased compared to a year earlier, but all of them - most notably freight transport - remained below the pre-pandemic level of 2019. The number of cars registered for the first time was a tenth lower than in the previous year and almost a third lower than the peak in 2019.