Denomination Number of the unemployed
2023 2024
January–March April–June July–September October–December January–March April–June July–September October–December
Total number of the unemployed 197.0 191.6 198.3 217.9 226.8 213.9 224.6
Highest educational attainment
at most primary school 69.3 69.0 61.3 68.4 75.7 72.4 59.9
vocational and apprentice school 55.4 47.4 50.1 55.8 58.1 55.3 57.1
grammar and other secondary school 50.0 53.6 60.6 65.7 63.5 61.7 75.0
college and university 22.2 21.6 26.3 28.0 29.6 24.6 32.6
Region of residence
Budapest 19.6 23.5 17.7 23.4 22.9 20.2 30.0
Pest 20.4 21.7 23.7 23.4 23.4 16.0 23.0
Central Transdanubia 10.3 10.4 14.0 12.8 15.9 16.3 13.8
Western Transdanubia 13.9 12.5 13.2 14.8 13.7 17.1 17.5
Southern Transdanubia 22.3 23.0 27.6 25.2 31.1 27.7 32.6
Northern Hungary 34.5 32.4 29.7 38.0 38.9 36.2 33.1
Northern Great Plain 48.5 43.6 45.6 50.7 51.1 53.7 45.8
Southern Great Plain 27.4 24.6 26.9 29.7 29.8 26.8 28.9
Economic activity a year before
was working 71.2 58.7 68.8 71.3 86.8 80.1 66.6
was unemployed 92.5 92.2 88.6 102.3 97.9 95.0 100.3
was economically inactive 33.2 40.7 41.0 44.2 42.1 38.9 57.7
of which: student 9.8 15.8 18.7 18.6 15.0 15.8 29.7
Reason for leave of previous workplace
lost job, or own business bankrupted 68.8 65.7 59.6 74.2 75.6 78.1 70.5
quit job, ceased business 40.3 33.2 44.1 38.4 45.2 38.0 40.8
seasonal work terminated 15.9 15.4 14.0 20.5 17.3 16.4 15.1
public work terminated 16.9 15.1 11.8 12.7 15.5 17.2 11.3
family responsibilities 4.2 3.8 4.5 5.2 3.8 2.8 3.4
othera 28.5 30.8 32.9 32.8 36.1 33.2 35.3
never had regular work 22.3 27.8 31.5 33.9 33.4 28.3 48.2
Industry of the previous employer
agriculture 8.7 8.4 8.0 9.4 11.0 9.0 5.9
industry 63.6 58.2 58.3 59.7 61.0 62.2 57.9
of which:
C manufacturing 37.2 39.5 38.8 37.1 38.2 40.3 34.4
F construction 25.2 17.8 17.0 18.9 18.1 19.7 19.1
services 89.9 84.6 85.7 99.5 105.4 99.4 98.7
of wich:
G–N market services 52.0 49.4 53.7 62.5 66.3 57.6 59.7
O–Q social public services 33.5 31.3 27.6 32.6 32.3 36.7 33.7
people who did not work in last 8 years or never had regular work or unknown 34.7 40.4 46.3 49.3 49.5 43.4 62.1

Footnotes

*From 25 October 2024 onwards, the Labour Force Survey estimates are produced using population projections based on the 2022 Census. The data has been extrapolated back to 2018 using the new base. Data of labour force survey refer to the population aged 15–74. Source: labour force survey, HCSO.
aIncluding those who are absent from work because of being on child-care and looking for another job, and those persons who didn’t work in their main job more than 3 months and for this period they received no salary or other payment, or in case they have received it does not reach the half of the usual salary.

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