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The KSH reported about nearly 600 million euros export surplus
In May, exports in euro were up 0.2 percent, imports increased by 2.9 percent, compared to the same period of last year. Foreign trade surplus was 596 million euros, 226...
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KSH: The number of employees increased further in the second quarter
The average number of employees was 4 million 475 thousand in the April-June period, ie in the second quarter, 55 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of...
Read moreRetail sales grew above seven percent
According to the raw data, retail sales volume grew by 7.1 percent in May, compared to the same period of last year. Calendar effect adjusted, the growth was 7.7 percent...
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KSH: earnings grew by nearly 11 percent
The average gross earnings of full-time employees in May were 327 500 forints, 10.9 percent higher than a year before – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported on Friday. In...
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KSH: R&D expenditures increased by 21 percent in 2017
Last year, Hungary spent 517 billion forints for Research and Development (R&D), corresponding to 1.35 percent of the GDP. R&D expenditures have risen by 21 percent ie by 90 billion...
Read moreRetail trade is more and more concentrated
One citizen spent an average 2900 HUF a day on various retail stores in Hungary last year – the Világgazdaság Online quotes the data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office’s...
Read moreThe performance of logistics increased in the Hungarian economy
The yearbook of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) gives a very mixed picture of the past year’s data on transport and storage – Világgazdaság Online wrote. The compilers themselves, for...
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KSH: agricultural producer prices increased by 0.6 percent in May
Agricultural producer prices increased by 0.6 percent in May, compared to the previous year. The increase is due to a 4.6 percent increase in the price of vegetable products and...
Read moreKSH: the number of cattle and pigs increased, the number of sheeps dropped
Over the past year, the number of cattle increased by 15,000, while pig stocks by 50,000, however, the number of sheep decreased by 14,000 and the number of hens by...
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In August, the turnover of the hotels increased by 7.5 percent, with a 10 percent increase in revenues
In May, the number of nights spent by foreign guests were 7.6, while domestic guest nights were 7.4 percent higher than one year before – according to the Central Statistical...
Read moreInflation over three percent
Consumer prices were on average 3.1 percent higher in June than in the previous year and compared with May, increased by an average of 0.3 percent – the Central Statistical...
Read moreForeign trade surplus was 577 million euros in May
In May, the value of exports in euro was practically unchanged in annual terms, imports increased by 2.9 percent and foreign trade surplus decreased by 245 million euros to 577...
Read moreKSH: agricultural producer prices increased by 1.2 percent in April
Agricultural producer prices increased by 1.2 percent in April, compared to a year before. This is due to the 3.1 percent increase in the price of vegetable products and a...
Read moreKSH: retail sales increased by 7.2 percent in May
According to the raw data, the volume of retail stores’ turnover was 7.2 percent higher, while calendar effect adjusted was 7.8 percent higher, compared to the same period of the...
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KSH foreign trade surplus was 517 million euros in April
In April, the volume of exports increased by 11.7 and its imports grew by 16.2 percent, compared to the same period of the previous year, while the foreign trade surplus...
Read moreRetail has been growing steadily for 58 months
Retail sales have been growing steadily for 58 months – Pomázi Gyula, the Deputy Minister of State of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) told M1 news channel on...
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KSH: employment continued to increase
In the March-May period, the average number of employees was 4 million 457 thousand, 64 thousand more than a year before. The employment rate of the 15-64 year olds grew...
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KSH: growth in earnings continued to accelerate
In April 2018, the gross average earnings reached 340,600 forints, which is 12.6 percent higher than a year before. In the fourth month of the year, the rise in earnings...
Read moreKSH: the growth of retail sales continues
Retail sales, calculated on unchanged price increased by 4.3 percent in April, compared to the data of a year before. Seasonally adjusted retail sales – mainly due to the Easter...
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Slaughter pig’s price started to go down again in April
According to data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH), in April 2018 agricultural production prices were 1.2 percent higher than in the same period of 2017. This rise was the...
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The sales growth continued in April
In April 2018 like-for-like retail volume sales augmented by 4.4 percent; adjusted for calendar effects, the sales growth was 6.1 percent – reported the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Food and...
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Food prices grew above the average in May
In May 2018 consumer prices were 2.8 percent higher on average than a year before. In comparison with May 2017, food prices increased by 3.8 percent. Egg’s price soared by...
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Wine trading surplus
Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) revealed that Hungary’s live pig export fell 14 percent in the first quarter of 2018....
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KSH: tourism stagnated due to the high base in April
In April, 0.8 percent more foreign visitors spent 2.2 percent less guest nights in hotels in Hungary, while the number of domestic guests increased by 0.3 percent and the number...
Read moreKSH: consumer prices increased by 2.8 percent in May
In May, consumer prices were on average 2.8 percent higher than in the previous year and 0.6 percent higher than in the previous month, according to the data of the...
Read moreKSH: GDP grew by 4.4 percent in the first quarter
In the first quarter, gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.4 percent. Seasonally and calendar effect adjusted, the growth was 4.7 percent, compared to the same period of the previous...
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Imports rose more than exports
In the first quarter, the value of exports in euros was 3.4, the value of imports in euros was 3.9 percent higher than in the same period of last year,...
Read moreServices, consumption and investment have led the economy
The volume of gross domestic product (GDP) was 4.4 percent higher than the one-year-earlier figure in the first quarter. The 4.9 percent growth of services, the 5.0 percent growth of...
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Food imports have grown
The value of exports calculated in euros increased by 3.7 percent, while imports decreased by 1.1 percent, compared to March last year. Foreign trade surplus decreased by 255 million euros...
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The amount of food per capita reached 680 kilograms in 2016 in Hungary
The amount of food per capita reached 680 kilograms in 2016, according to the latest “Food Balances” publication of the Central Statistics Office (KSH) – Világgazdaság Online wrote. In Hungary,...
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