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Hungary

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Facts

Population:  10,106,017 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  16.63% (male 862,468; female 818,052) 15-64 years:  68.66% (male 3,406,717; female 3,532,008) 65 years and over:  14.71% (male 546,992; female 939,780) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  -0.32% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  9.32 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  13.21 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0.74 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.07 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.96 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.58 male(s)/female total population:  0.91 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  8.96 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  71.63 years male:  67.28 years female:  76.3 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.25 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.05% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  2,500 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Hungarian(s) adjective:  Hungarian
Ethnic groups:  Hungarian 89.9%, Roma 4%, German 2.6%, Serb 2%, Slovak 0.8%, Romanian 0.7%
Religions:  Roman Catholic 67.5%, Calvinist 20%, Lutheran 5%, atheist and other 7.5%
Languages:  Hungarian 98.2%, other 1.8%
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  99% male:  99% female:  98% (1980 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $113.9 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  5.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $11,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  5% industry:  35% services:  60% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:  8.6% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  3.9% highest 10%:  24.8% (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  9.8% (1999 est.)
Labor force:  4.2 million (1997)
Labor force - by occupation:  services 65%, industry 27%, agriculture 8% (1996)
Unemployment rate:  9.4% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $13 billion expenditures:  $14.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:  mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods, textiles, chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), motor vehicles
Industrial production growth rate:  18% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  36.75 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  61.09% hydro:  0.51% nuclear:  38.4% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  35.234 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  2.35 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  3.406 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, sugar beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products
Exports:  $25.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  machinery and equipment 59.5%, other manufactures 29.4%, food products 6.9%, raw materials 2.4%, fuels and electricity 1.8% (2000)
Exports - partners:  Germany 37%, Austria 9%, Italy 6%, Netherlands 5% (2000)
Imports:  $27.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and equipment 51.1%, other manufactures 35.9%, fuels and electricity 8.1%, food products 2.8%, raw materials 2.1% (2000)
Imports - partners:  Germany 25%, Russia 8%, Austria 7%, Italy 7% (2000)
Debt - external:  $29.6 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:  $122.7 million (1995)
Currency:  forint (HUF)
Currency code:  HUF
Exchange rates:  forints per US dollar - 282.240 (January 2001), 282.179 (2000), 237.146 (1999), 214.402 (1998), 186.789 (1997), 152.647 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

Press

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168 Ora

(Independent political weekly), Budapest
http://www.168ora.hu/

2000

(Cultural monthly), Budapest

Beszelo

(Liberal weekly), Budapest
http://beszelo.c3.hu/

Budapest Business Journal

(Business-oriented), Budapest
http://www.bbj.hu/

Budapest Sun, The

(Daily), Budapest
http://www.budapestsun.com

Budapester Zeitung

(Weekly (German)), Budapest
http://www.budapester.hu/

Dunaújváros

(Weekly (Hungarian)), Fejer
http://www.dunaujvaros.com/

Hungary in the News

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Countries around the world have taken preventive measures against a potential outbreak of bird flu, which has killed more than 60 people in Southeast Asia since it was first discovered in 2003.

'I Feel as if I See Music'

András Lindner interviews Hungarian composer and conducter Peter Eötvös.

Hungary: Painful Realities

World Press Review correspondent David Koch reviews Hungarian press coverage of the remembrance of the Romani Holocaust.

 
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