According to raw data the volume of construction output in January 2023 lagged behind the previous year’s level by 3.6%, the Central Statistical Office reports. Out of the main groups of construction the construction of buildings decreased by 4.0 and that of civil engineering by 2.1%. Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction […]

In January 2023, the volume of industrial production declined by 0.2% year-on-year in Hungary. Based on working-day adjusted data, production dropped by 3.2%, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported this Tuesday. Production increased in some manufacturing subsections, with the largest growth in the manufacture of electrical equipment. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data industrial […]

The value of Hungarian exports in EUR terms was 15% and that of imports 14% higher in January 2023 than in the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office reports. The balance of the external trade in goods improved by EUR 78 million. Compared to the previous month, the level of export […]

Consumer prices were 25.4% higher on average in Hungary in February 2023 than a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office reports. Food inflation is over 43%. The highest price rises were measured for electricity, gas and other fuels as well as food over the last twelve months. In one month, consumer prices increased by 0.8% […]

The volume of industrial production declined in Hungary in January 2023 by 0.2% year-on-year. Based on working-day adjusted data, production dropped by 3.2%, according to a report published this Tuesday by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data industrial output was 5.1% lower than in December 2022. Out of the […]

All three major groups of shops – grocery, non-food and petrol – and even online sales fell in January this year in Hungary. The volume of sales in retail trade decreased by 3.9% according to raw data and by 4.5% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year, the […]

In January 2023, 570,000 guests spent 1.4 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary, the country's Central Statistical Office reports. The number of guests and tourism nights both increased by 18% compared to January 2022. The number of nights spent by domestic guests […]

The deficit of the external trade in goods was EUR 168 million in December, the adjusted volume of export increased by 0.6, while that of import decreased by 5.0%, compared to November, the Central Statistical Office reports. In December 2022, the volume of export was 3.5% higher, while that of import was 1,0% lower than […]

In the 4th quarter of 2022 the volume of investments decreased by 6.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, and lessened by 5.5% compared to the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted), the Central Statistical Office reports. The investment volume has been shaped by a decrease in the budgetary, the households’ and also in […]

The number of cars registered in Hungary is growing rapidly, but so is their average age. The latter has been rising steadily since the 2008 crisis, according to recent data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). As the business news site portfolio.hu points out, a turnaround would certainly require a rise in the living […]

According to preliminary data, 7,398 children were born and 11,342 people died in Hungary in January 2023, the country’s Central Statistical Office reports. In the last twelve months, i.e. between February 2022 and January 2023, the number of births diminished by 3.4%, that of deaths by 14% and the number of marriages by 12% compared […]

At the start of the last census, on October 1, 2022, the population of Hungary was 9 million 604 thousand and there were 4 million 593 thousand dwellings in the country, Marcell Kovács, project manager of the census, said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday. Marcell Kovács pointed out that in the period […]

Hungary’s gross domestic product increased by 0.4% according to raw data and by 0.9% according to seasonally and calendar adjusted and reconciled data in the 4th quarter of 2022 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office reports. Compared to the previous quarter, the economic performance diminished by 0.4% according […]

In December 2022, the volume of industrial production grew by 2.0% while construction output volume decreased by 3.9% – both year-on-year – in Hungary, the country Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. While the annual growth figure of industrial production was 2.0%, based on working-day adjusted data, production rose by 5.7%. As KSH explains, compared to […]

Consumer prices were 25.7% higher on average in January 2023 in Hungary than a year earlier. The highest price rises were measured for electricity, gas and other fuels as well as food over the last twelve months, the country's Central Statistical Office reports. In one month, consumer prices increased by 2.3% on average. The annual […]