Economy

In September 2025, the volume of retail trade was 3.4% higher in raw data, or 3.0% higher in calendar adjusted terms, than in the same month of the previous year. Compared to the same period of the previous year, calendar-adjusted sale volumes expanded by ...

In the first three quarters of 2025, 7,490 new dwellings were built, 14% fewer than a year earlier. The number of dwellings to be built based on issued construction permits and simple declarations was 19,947, 37% more than in the same period of 2024.

Industrial producer prices were 2.4% higher on average in September 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices rose by 0.5% and non-domestic ones by 3.3% compared to September in the previous year. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices decreased by 0.5% ...

In September 2025, 1.6 million guests spent 3.8 million tourism nights at tourist (commercial, private and other) accommodation establishments. Tourist arrivals were up by 8.3% and tourism nights by 5.6% in number compared to a year earlier. In January-September 2025, the number of domestic ...

The volume of Hungary’s gross domestic product was 0.6% higher according to both raw data and seasonally and calendar adjusted and reconciled data in the 3rd quarter of 2025 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Compared to the previous quarter, the ...

The surplus was EUR 589 million, the balance decreased by EUR 297 million, year-on-year. The volume of export increased by 0.5% compared to the same period of the previous year, that of import grew by 8.4%. The seasonally and working-day adjusted export volume decreased ...

In September 2025, the average number of employed persons aged 15–74 was 4 million 669 thousand. The number of unemployed persons was 218 thousand and the unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Full-time employees’ average gross earnings were HUF 683,300 and average net earnings reached HUF 472,600 in August 2025. Average gross earnings grew by 8.7%, net earnings increased by 9.2% and real earnings were 4.7% higher than a year earlier. The increase in net average ...

The volume of industrial production lagged behind the one year earlier level by 7.3%, based on working-day adjusted data it declined by 4.6% in August 2025, year-on-year. There was a setback in all but one of the manufacturing subsections. According to seasonally and working-day ...

Construction output volume, based on raw data went down by 15.2%, and according to calendar-adjusted data was below the previous year’s level by 13.6% in August 2025. Among the main construction groups the construction of buildings lessened by 2.3%, that of civil engineering fell ...