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).
27/03/2025

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Latest update: 27/03/2025

The chart collection contains monthly and quarterly indicators of economic and social developments by country and over time. The monthly updated chart collection with the latest available data for each indicator is available here.
19/02/2025

The Economy chapter of the TÉR-KÉP (Map-Snap), 2023 publication presents the factors at the base of growth, from macroeconomic trends, spatial differences in GDP per capita perspectives, the spatiality of investments and R&D, the level of digitalisation, the use of infocommunication devices at enterprises. The number of active enterprises (929 thousand in total) per thousand people is characteristically higher in the mid- and western parts of the country, and lower than the national average (97) in the eastern and northern parts – especially around the country border area and the mid-Tisza districts.
The complete publication is available in Hungarian: TÉR-KÉP, 2023.
20/03/2025

Hungarian enterprises are characterised by strong concentration, the 5 enterprises with the highest turnover generated more than ten percent (10,1%) of total turnover in 2023. The ten largest weight representing divisions, all of these representing industrial, construction or trade activities, realised 58% of total sales revenue. The share of foreign-controlled enterprises in the turnover of the leading economic divisions was 52%, with German and Austrian companies’ dominance and an increasing Asian presence.
17/03/2025

15 March is not only the holiday of the 1848 Revolution but has also been Hungarian Press Day since 1990. The first free Hungarian printed matter was printed then in 1848. In Hungary, the number of copies of printed daily papers peaked before the change of regime, approximating 1 billion in annual totals. Due to digitalisation and to changes in the customs of obtaining information, the total number of copies of printed daily papers was only 150 million in 2023, and the place of formerly leading broadsheet newspapers was taken by tabloids.
14/03/2025

Rents stopped rising in February, up just 0.2% nationally and down 0.4% in the capital compared with the previous month. The nominal rent index in February was 117% higher than the 2015 base nationally, 105% higher in the capital and 27% and 20% higher in real terms. Over a year, nominal rents rose by 8-9% and real rents by 2-3%.
12/03/2025

Passenger traffic at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport has exceeded the same period of the previous year in every month since April 2021. Nearly 1.3 million passengers passed through the airport in January 2025, up 17.5% year-on-year and an all-time high for the first month. This is more passengers in one month than the total for the period between April 2020 and March 2021, which was heavily affected by the coronavirus epidemic.
05/03/2025

Based on preliminary data, the share of tourism-specific activities in the gross output of the national economy in 2023 was 6.3%, or 9.3% if multiplier production effects are taken into account. The value added of the tourism sectors increased by almost one fifth, while the value of gross fixed capital formation invested in the sector decreased by 30% compared to the previous year. In 2023, tourism expenditure in Hungary (HUF 4104 billion) increased significantly..
20/02/2025

The latest issue of the scientific journal features studies on the following topics: the Ukrainian and Polish rental market at the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine; a novel approach to measure environmental, social and economic development; fertility dynamics differentiated by birth order in Russian regions; the initial phase of the Covid-19 crisis in Spain; factors influencing labour shortages in V4 countries with regard to difficult economic environments; big data and statistical production in LAC; borrowing dynamics of Hungarian local governments; sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of a composite index measuring sustainable energy transition in the EU.
12/02/2025