Culture

The number of the 2024 museum visits reached 11.2 million in Hungary.
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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!

The 2025 US Open, which can be proud of several points of interest and records, is held between 24 August and 7 September. Among Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open Tennis Championships were the first that, in 1973, (ending sexual discrimination) introduced identical prize money to be awarded in the main events – women’s and men’s singles. The total prize to be awarded in this year’s competition (90 million dollars) as well as the 5 million dollars to be awarded to both singles winners are equally records in tennis history.

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. In the chapter devoted to earnings and incomes, it is a novelty compared to previous years that net earnings in which allowances and types of exemptions are accounted for, too, came into focus from 2019. In the number of employees, people working in working time shorter than 60 working hours per month are also taken into account. In addition, the theme of environment is completed with areas declared world heritage sites by UNESCO.

The world is going to watch, between 26–30 August 2025 the 64th Pentathlon World Championship held in Kaunas, Lithuania. The semi-finals and finals qualifying competition days for men and women are going to take place between 26 and 29 August, finals will be held on 30 August in the Zalgiris Arena. The competition is an opportunity, beside the world champion title, for obtaining Olympic ranking points, too. Hungary will be represented by Blanka Guzi, Blanka Bauer, Emma Mészáros, Noémi Eszes and Rita Erdős in women’s sports and by Mihály Koleszár, András Gáll, Balázs Szép, Botond Tamás and Bőhm Csaba in men’s.
We wish every success for the athletes and good cheer!

A new sub-page has been added to the HCSO website, more than 400 yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections, a total of a hundred thousand pdf format pages close to 150 thousand excel tables and several thousand static and interactive graphs and maps are available for download. The sub-page offers the possibility of filtering these yearbooks, pocketbooks and data collections by reference year, serial name, format (PDF, XLS) and supplements (graphs, maps). Users may compile their own list of publications based on the year- and pocketbooks, data collections, adequate to their interests.

A stage performance is not only entertainment but also the guardian and mediator of the cultural values and identity of a community, region or nation. In Hungary, the overall attendance at the 240 national theatres rose to 6.9 million in 2023 (by 10%). Similar to the previous year, 1.6 million people attended the performances of the 11 nationally accredited theatre arts organisations, with the National Circus Arts Centre, the Hungarian State Opera House and the Budapest Operetta Theatre attracting the highest attendance (together almost 900,000 visitors).

About 16 thousand works (books and brochures) have been published in 2023, the number of issues came close to 37 million. Every third volume was written by a foreign author. In case of cinemas, the number of those with one auditorium decreased, the larger ones and open-air cinema numbers grew in five years. The number of seats tend to concentrate in the 8 or more auditorium multiplexes; these represented 34% in 2019 and by 2023 gave 41% of the total capacity of cinemas in Hungary.

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 cinemas.