Transport

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For Hungary, 2025 once again proved economically two?sided: while output in the productive sectors—industry and agriculture—continued to weaken, services strengthened across almost all areas. Household consumption gained further momentum, supported in large part by the rise in real wages. Based on the available data, employment levels appear to have stabilised at a high level despite the protracted global difficulties.

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. Compared to previous years, it is a novelty that the results of time use data collection showing the time use of the population were included in the yearbook, furthermore, that the number of registered organisations and earnings data are also available according to the new NACE Rev. 2.1 structure, alongside the NACE Rev. 2 classification, as well as that the International data chapter is published with more extensive content, various indicators.

On the occasion of the national holiday marking the foundation of the Hungarian state, it is also worth paying attention to what connects Hungary’s settlements and communities. We present selected data on transport, postal services and mobile communications to illustrate the network of connections that runs throughout the country and links its settlements.

In 2024, the performance of freight transport and urban passenger transport in Hungary increased slightly, while that of interurban passenger transport grew significantly compared with the previous year. At the same time, the performance of the first two branches – particularly freight transport – still fell short of the pre-pandemic level recorded in 2019. The number of newly registered passenger cars exceeded the previous year’s figure by 9.0%, yet remained about one quarter below the peak reached in 2019.

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.