Environment, public utilities
Environmental statistics covers data on natural resources (e.g. mineral resources, water resources), the load of the environment (e.g. air pollution, sewage treatment, waste management), environmental quality (quality of e.g. air, water or soil), nature protection (e.g. protected areas, protected species) and environmental protection (e.g. environmental investments, environmental expenditures, environmental taxes). It shows the state and the load of the environment, and quantifies efforts against the load of the environment. Public utilities statistics covers statistical data on public utilities (electricity, gas, purchased heat, drinking water, sewage, waste) in settlements.
Key figures
Emissions of carbon dioxide
Indicator description
Emissions of carbon dioxide in a particular year (excluding carbon dioxide from biomass).
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2021
Emissions of suspended dust with a diameter of less than 2.5 µm
Indicator description
Emissions of particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 µm by anthropogenic (industrial, transport, agricultural and public utilities) sources.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2021
Annual water consumption per capita
Indicator description
The indicator shows the quantity of annual water consumption in cubic metres per inhabitant. Drinking and household water needs of the population can be satisfied and the supply of water of drinking water quality to enterprises, public institutions and smaller industrial plants can be ensured by own water works of plants or institutions, from private or common wells and from public water conduits.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2022
Proportion of forests that are healthy in terms of defoliation
Indicator description
Area of forests with a foliage density considered as ideal in a particular habitat, as a proportion of total forest area.
Source of data:
Summary Tables (STADAT)
Last data for period: 2022
Featured
International Climate Change Day of Action - 15 May
The UN initiative aims to raise awareness of the threats to our planet's climate and the natural changes caused by climate change. Records show that 2023 was the warmest year on Earth, and parts of Europe also broke all-time temperature records. In other regions, rain falling in a single day, even the equivalent of the area's annual precipitation, caused widespread flooding and huge property damage.
10 May is Birds and Trees Day – the saker falcon is the Bird of the Year
According to the current nature conservation act (Act LIII of 1996 on the Protection of Nature), 10 May is the Day of Birds and Trees every year. The commemorations and events held at this time should strengthen the commitment of the population, especially young people, to nature conservation. In 1906, ornithologist István Chernel was the first to organise a „Day of the Birds” in Hungary, on the initiative of Otto Herman, to commemorate the 1902 Paris Convention, signed by European countries to „protect birds useful for agriculture”.
Snapshots, 2023 – Green economy
A green economy, as a model of organising and developing the economy, aims to reduce environmental risks and to compensate for the scarcity of available natural resources, as one of the priorities aims to increase energy efficiency. According to energy performance certificates issued in 2022 for new and used residential real estate, buildings with the highest energy efficiency were in Győr-Moson-Sopron and Pest Counties as well as Budapest, while the least energy efficient ones in Nógrád, Békés and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Counties.
Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2022
Tens of thousands of data of the approximately 500 tables, graphs and maps offer an overview of Hungary’s demographic, social and economic processes, its environmental specifics and their timely changes. Unemployment in the 15–74 age group decreased year-on-year, being 3.6% in 2022. We amass this year commercial, private and other accommodation establishments in one unit, a novelty approach of our publication, providing a better picture about tourist traffic. Tourism nights at accommodation establishments were 39 million 821 thousand in 2022.
Settlement related data regarding 2021 are presented here
Datasets from the Dissemination Database regarding settlements have been updated with 2021 data, as such settlement related data for 2021 are available since 13 December, concerning, among others, public water and sewerage.
Indicators of sustainable development for Hungary, 2018
In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, and gave the impetus to the integration of the concept of sustainable development into national and global policies. In Hungary, the National Sustainable Development Council (NFFT, established in 2007) developed the Hungarian National Sustainable Development Framework Strategy, which was adopted by the Parliament in 2013. The framework strategy aims to provide a nationwide, long-term guide for individual and community action. Compared to the strategy of the European Union or the UN SDGs, the Hungarian framework strategy interprets the concept of sustainability much more narrowly. In this interpretation, sustainable development policy is primarily a long-term resource management activity in which it distinguishes four resources: human, social, natural and economic resources.
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Methodological information
Publications |
Released |
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Hungary, quarters 1-3 of 2023 – On the path of disinflation | 10/01/2024 |
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2022 | 17/01/2024 |
Hungary, 1st semester of 2023 – disinflation started | 19/10/2023 |
Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2022 | 23/11/2023 |
Hungary, 2023 Q1 | 30/08/2023 |
Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary, 2022 | 14/06/2023 |
Hungary, 2022 | 28/06/2023 |
Hungary in figures, 2022 | 11/07/2023 |
Hungary, Quarter 3 2022 | 06/02/2023 |
Regional Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2021 | 10/01/2023 |