Hungarian households are on diet

Public dieting continued in the first quarter of the year. People increasingly pay back their foreign currency loans, so their housing and other consumption purposes indebtedness have reduced.

In the first quarter of the year, household lendings were 2.9 percent of the GDP. This means that the population saved 2.9 percent more, than loan taken. The index is on this level, for one and a half year, which is only a modest increase of the pre-crisis value, that was 1 percent – reports portfolio.hu.