Industrial producer prices were 14.0% higher on average in September 2021 than a year earlier. The rate of increase of prices was influenced principally by the price rise of raw and base materials as well as motor fuels, the Central Statistical Office reports. Domestic output prices rose by 20.1% and non-domestic output prices by 10.9%. Compared […]

In September this year, over 1,400 more people died than the number of babies born in Hungary, the country's Central Statistical Office reported this Friday. In September 2021, 8,600 children were born and 10,024 people died in Hungary according to preliminary data. Compared to September 2020, the number of live births was up by 1.0% and that […]

In August 2021, the volume of industrial production grew in Hungary by 2.6% year-on-year. Based on working-day adjusted data production rose by 0.6%. The majority of the manufacturing subsections contributed to the growth, the manufacture of electrical equipment grew at the highest rate. As reported by the Central Statistical Office this Wednesday, the manufacture of […]

In August 2021, the volume of sales in retail trade increased by 4.6% according to raw data and by 4.1% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year. A fresh report by the Central Statistical Office says that in August, calendar-adjusted sales volumes rose by 1.7% in specialized and […]

Over the past five years, 18,000 shops have closed in Hungary, leaving a retail network of 116,000 shops at the end of last year. And there are huge differences in daily spending across the country, the business news site napi.hu reports. The number of retail outlets including tobacco shops has decreased significantly in recent years, […]

In August 2021, the average monthly number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4,678,000 in Hungary. In June–August 2021, the average number of employed persons was 4 million 659, 40,000 more than in the same period of the previous year. Employment increased in the domestic primary labor market, but fell among those working abroad. In […]

In August 2021, 8,178 children were born and 9,678 people died according to preliminary data. Compared to August 2020, the number of live births was up by 0.4% and that of deaths decreased by 2.7%. 9,249 couples got married, which was 12% less than in the same period of the previous year. In August 2021:A […]

The number of nights spent by domestic guests at commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) increased by 8.1% in July compared to the same month in 2020 but was 11% lower compared to July 2019, the corresponding month in the year before the outbreak of the pandemic. The […]

Consumer prices were 4.9% higher on average in August 2021 than a year earlier. Significant price rises were measured over the last 12 months for alcoholic beverages and tobacco as well as motor fuels. In one month, consumer prices were up by 0.2% on average, the Central Statistical Office reports. In 12 months, compared to […]

The volume of construction output in Hungary in June 2021, based on raw data, surpassed the previous year’s level by 27.8%. Output increased in in the construction of buildings by 25.0%, in civil engineering by 32.1% compared to the exceptionally low base of June 2020. Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction output […]

Consumer prices were 4.6% higher on average in July 2021 than a year earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office. Significant price rises were measured over the last 12 months for alcoholic beverages and tobacco as well as motor fuels. In one month, consumer prices were up by 0.5% on average. In the past 12 months, compared […]

In June 2021, the average monthly number of employed persons aged 15–74 in Hungary was 4,692,000, 98,000 more than in the same period of the previous year and 85,000 more than in the previous month. According to data published by the Central Statistical Office, in April–June 2021, the average number of employed persons was 4, […]

Consumer prices were 5.3% higher on average in June 2021 than a year earlier. Significant price rises were measured over the last 12 months for alcoholic beverages, tobacco and motor fuels. In one month, consumer prices increased on average by 0.6%. According to data published by the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH), in the past 12 months, […]

Hungarian cinemas' ticket sales dropped by 72% to 4.3 million last year as pandemic restrictions weighed, data compiled by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. Almost 2.2 million of total ticket sales were at cinemas in the capital, Budapest. Box office revenue declined by 71% to HUF 6.4 billion forints (EUR 18.5m). Cinemas in Hungary […]

The volume of gross domestic product lessened by 2.1% in Hungary in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, the country's Central statistical Office reports. According to seasonally and calendar adjusted and reconciled data, the performance of the economy became 2.0% higher than in the previous quarter and 1.6% […]