Hungary – HU

EU regions: Hungary

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	0.537
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.28
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	11.8
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	5.2
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	4.5
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q4	37.3
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	4.2
percentage of part time workers	2024q4	4.21
percentage of part time workers, men	2024q4	2.45
percentage of part time workers, women	2024q4	6.17
Minimum and average wage
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2023	42.3
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	707
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2025q1	1030
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	19 443
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	17.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2024	58.2
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	112.18
gender gap in employment rate	2024	90.72
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	97.78
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024q4	28.7
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q4	12.5
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q4	8.1
NEET	2024	10
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	77
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2024	5
Employment
employment rate	2024	75.1
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	17.8

More on wikipedia wikidata Q28 on OpenStreetMap Hungary slovensky: HU

Subregions: Central Hungary, Transdanubia, Great Plain and North

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024q4	4.4
youth unemployment rate	2024q4	14.6
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q4	13.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q4	1.5
share of long term unemployed	2024q4	33
Unemployment according to labour offices
number of registered unemployed	April 2025	228 254
number of unemployed women	April 2025	116 061
number of vacancies	April 2025	106 930

Comparison of unemployment according to ILO methodology and registered unemployment yields some differences.

Data on unemployment in counties of Hungary are available at Local Administrative Units data of Visegrad countries.

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Hungary

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 150.9 E: 82.9; U: 17.8; I: 50.2	P: 703.2 E: 447.7; U: 28.5; I: 227.0	P: 190.9 E: 162.1; U: 5.8; I: 23.0
Y30-39	P: 142.5 E: 90.1; U: 15.1; I: 37.3	P: 648.0 E: 577.0; U: 21.8; I: 49.2	P: 429.6 E: 406.5; U: 7.0; I: 16.1
Y40-49	P: 175.9 E: 124.6; U: 15.2; I: 36.1	P: 846.7 E: 766.7; U: 23.8; I: 56.2	P: 512.3 E: 489.7; U: 5.4; I: 17.2
Y50-59	P: 171.2 E: 108.0; U: 9.9; I: 53.3	P: 806.9 E: 699.7; U: 20.7; I: 86.5	P: 317.8 E: 297.8; U: 4.1; I: 15.9
Y60-69	P: 199.0 E: 34.5; U: 3.3; I: 161.2	P: 712.4 E: 229.9; U: 8.2; I: 474.3	P: 261.2 E: 119.6; U: 1.9; I: 139.7

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	9 584 627
population density	2023	105.1
old-age dependency ratio	2024	31.9
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q4	3.2
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.77
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	0.76
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	27.9
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	16.6

Employment by sectors, Hungary

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	200	4%	B-E	1063	23%
F	389	8%	G-I	1039	22%
J	179.6	4%	K	112.5	2%
L	35.1	1%	M_N	399.6	8%
O-Q	1085.4	23%	R-U	211.4	4%
TOTAL	4714.6	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ] (listen)) is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world, and among the few non-Indo-European languages to be widely spoken in Europe. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.

The territory of modern Hungary was for centuries inhabited by a succession of peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundations of the Hungarian state were established in the late ninth century CE by the Hungarian grand prince Árpád following the conquest of the Carpathian Basin. His great-grandson Stephen I ascended the throne in 1000, converting his realm to a Christian kingdom. By the 12th century, Hungary became a regional power, reaching its cultural and political height in the 15^th century. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Hungary was partially occupied by the Ottoman Empire (1541–1699).

Other: Croatia, Hungary

Neighbours: Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Austria

Subregions: Central Hungary, Transdanubia, Great Plain and North

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Hungary – HU, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PHU, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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