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Rising food prices
According to statistics, average annual inflation was only 2.9% in June, but food prices continued to rise far above average, with some products rising by more than 10-20%. GKI analysts...
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KSH: The number of Hungarian visits abroad decreased more than inbound tourism in the first quarter
As a result of the travel restrictions introduced in mid-March due to the pandemic, the upward trend of foreigners ‘visits to Hungary and Hungarians’ international travel, which was characteristic of...
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KSH: tourist attraction of the spas and the capital is still unbroken
The tourist attraction of spas and the capital is unbroken: based on the number of guest nights, the Hungarian settlement known for its spas has been one of the 10...
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In May, the KSH had a foreign trade surplus of 155 million euros
In May, the value of exports in euros decreased by 29 percent and imports by 25 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. The KSH added that...
Read moreKSH: consumer prices rose by 2.9 percent in June
In June, consumer prices were on average 2.9 percent higher than a year before. Over the past year, the prices of food and spirits and tobacco have risen significantly –...
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KSH: the number of guest nights decreased by 92.7 percent in May
In May, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of nights spent by foreign guests in commercial accommodation fell by 98.4 percent and the number of nights spent...
Read moreIn May, the turnover of retail stores decreased by 2.1 percent
According to the raw data, the volume of retail trade turnover decreased by 2.8 percent in May this year and by 2.1 percent, adjusted for calendar effects, compared to the...
Read moreBuyers blew up in the second half of June
The KSH already distributes online cash register data on a weekly basis. In the second half of June, the shop world came to life, in a week the big ones...
Read moreKSH: foreign trade balance turned negative
In April, exports fell by 37.2 percent in euro terms and by 35.1 percent at constant prices, while imports fell by 29.1 percent and 23.5 percent, respectively, from a year...
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KSH: The number of employees increased in May compared to the previous month
In May, the average monthly number of employees was 4,399,000, 31,000 more than in the previous month and 134,000 less than a year before – the Central Statistical Office (KSH)...
Read moreKSH: the online phase of the Agricultural Census will soon be completed
The first phase of the Agricultural Census of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) will end, then the deadline for online completion will expire – the statistical office draws attention. They...
Read moreKSH: freight performance decreased in the first quarter
The volume of goods transported decreased by 8.7 percent and the transport performance in freight tonne-kilometers by 11.7 percent in the first quarter compared to a year earlier, according to...
Read moreAgricultural purchase prices continued to rise
In April, the average purchase price of agricultural products was 12.8 percent higher than a year before. After a 10.3 percent rise in March, double-digit growth was measured again, according...
Read moreKSH: consumer prices rose by 2.2 percent in May
In May, consumer prices were on average 2.2 percent higher than a year before. The more moderate rise in the price of services than last year played the largest role...
Read moreShop spending may increase slightly in 2020
According to the latest KSH data, we left 6.3 percent less money in store cash registers in May than a year earlier. Thus, with a 10 percent decline, April was...
Read moreAnalysts expect retail sales to pick up
Data on retail sales in May may already pick up after the April low, according to analysts interviewed by MTI. According to a report published by the Central Statistical Office...
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In April, the number of guest nights decreased by 97 percent
In April, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of nights spent by foreign guests in commercial accommodation fell by 98.7 percent and the number of nights spent...
Read moreShops and borders are opening, and shopping tourism may just begin
According to recent statistics, Hungarian shopping tourists kept going on shopping trips until the last moment in early 2020. And they are likely to continue their march after the border...
Read moreKSH: retail sales decreased by 10.2 percent in April
In April, the turnover of retail stores decreased by 10.2 percent, according to both raw and calendar-adjusted data, compared to the same period of the previous year – the Central...
Read moreKSH: The complete census on agriculture will begin on Friday
The agricultural census of the Central Statistical Office (KSH), the Agricultural Census 2020, will start with an online filling phase on Friday, the KSH told MTI on Wednesday. According to...
Read moreThe foreign trade balance is still in surplus
In March, the value of exports in euros was 7.5 percent and imports were 4.2 percent higher than a year earlier, while the export surplus fell by 343 million euros...
Read moreKSH: GDP grew by 2.2 percent in the first quarter
The volume of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter was 2.2 percent higher than in the same period of the previous year. According to seasonally, calendar-adjusted and balanced...
Read moreConsumption increased sigificantly
According to today’s statistics from the KSH, family spending jumped sharply in the first quarter of 2020, to 7%, due to cumulation. But the March pandemic limits have already pulled...
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Hungarians are afraid of losing their jobs
The population’s fear of unemployment has increased dramatically, which is no wonder, as tens of thousands have lost their jobs every week – portfolio.hu wrote. The KSH survey showed what...
Read moreKSH: investments decreased by 1.8 percent in the first quarter
Partly due to the domestic and international economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a longer-term increase in investment was broken, with the volume of developments in the first quarter decreased...
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KSH: earnings grew by 9 percent in March
In March, the average gross earnings were 400,400 HUF, 9.0 percent more than a year before. In the first quarter, both gross and net average earnings increased by 9.1 percent...
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KSH: emplyment decreased by 56,000 February-April, compared to the year before
In the three-month period of February-April, the average number of employees was 4 million 436 thousand, 1.2 percent ie56 thousand lower than a year earlier – the Central Statistical Office...
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The potato market in Hungary is expanding
The area sown to field potatoes will increase by more than a fifth this year compared to last year, but longer-term expansion – in order to achieve self-sufficiency – would...
Read moreKSH: the Hungarian economy expanded in the first quarter
According to raw data, Hungary’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.2 percent according to the raw data, while the seasonal and calendar-effect adjusted balanced data shows a 2.0 percent...
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Double-digit sales growth for grocery stores in March
In March 2020 like-for-like retail volume sales grew by 4.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 3.5 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
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