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Latest update: 05/06/2025

The domestic housing market continued to expand in the fourth quarter of 2024, with the number of sales 22% higher than in the same period of the previous year. After a strong increase in Q1, housing prices continued to rise at a more moderate pace. In Q4, the price of dwellings rose by 1.6% compared to the previous quarter. Over a year, prices rose by 13% in nominal terms and by 8.9% in real terms, the latter by 8.7% for second-hand dwellings and 10% for new dwellings.
06/06/2025

The Hungarian National Assembly declared in 2010 the anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon, 4 June 2020, the Day of Hungarian National Unity. Commemorations, wreath-laying ceremonies, literary events, historical lectures are organized year after year in numerous cities on the occasion. Many schools organize extraordinary history classes, competitions.
04/06/2025

In Hungary, fewer children were born in 2024 than a year earlier. The number of deaths also declined, but to a lesser extent than the number of births, so the rate of natural decrease accelerated. A lower surplus of international migration than in the previous year slightly reduced the population decrease, and the country's population fell by 45 thousand people. The number of marriages fell short of the previous year, while the number of divorces slightly exceeded it.
04/06/2025

The current issue of the Hungarian Statistical Review of HCSO publishes articles covering topics on the structure and performance of the Budapest office market, with a focus on greening; the relationship between education and economic growth in Uzbekistan using the Vector Autoregressive model; the impact of women's empowerment on Sudanese households; and the examination of entrepreneurial intentions among university students in Laos, focusing on the mediating role of perceived university support within the planned behaviour theory framework.
03/06/2025

The latest issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: men’s overrepresentation and the untapped potential of women in STEM fields; the economic recovery of NUTS2 regions in the V4 countries after the Covid-19 pandemic; evaluating China’s high-quality economic development model; a case study on minority Hungarians; designing and implementing a software for measuring the national power of countries; grassland management survey on farms in Hungary; differences in electric vehicle battery industry development in the EU; application of cluster analysis during the EU inflation crisis.
02/06/2025

In Hungary, 59 thousand children were enrolled in daytime care facilities for young children in 2024, almost 22% of the relevant age group (0-2 year olds). In the 2024/2025 school year, 1 million 689 thousand children and young people participate in full-time education at various levels of initial education, vocational training and tertiary education. Compared to the previous school year, the number of children in kindergartens and students in secondary and tertiary education has increased, while that of primary school students has decreased. In total, nearly 231 thousand people receive part-time education.
02/06/2024

The tables and charts in the latest edition of the Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary provide a comprehensive insight into the development of social and economic trends in Hungary during the year 2024. It aims to provide a summary picture of the country's situation in all possible areas based on preliminary indicators. Within the number of employees, this year's pocketbook also includes employed persons working less than 60 hours, and the gross revenues at tourist accommodation establishments.
27/05/2025

The volume of national investments lagged behind year-on-year by 14% in 2024. Construction investments lessened by 15%, those in machinery and equipment by 13%. The manufacturing, real estate activities as well as the transportation and storage sections contributed by 4.7, 2.7 and 2.5 percentage points to the volume decrease of the national economy’s investments. At the same time administration toned the setback down by 1.4 percentage points, the energy industry by 0.4 percentage points.
27/05/2025

Humanity wishes for a long time to reach the stars and space exploration gains nowadays an ever-increasing role in research and development. Hungary spent 19.4 billion HUF between 2021-2023 for this purpose, 16% more than in the 2010-2020 period. Bertalan Farkas was, 45 years ago, on 26 May 1980, the first Hungarian astronaut in the cosmos, the Hungarian nation becoming as such the seventh to reach the space. Tibor Kapu, the next Hungarian, starts his space mission on 8 June 2025.
26/05/2025