Hungary 



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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(Independent political weekly), Budapest
http://www.168ora.hu/
2000
(Cultural monthly), Budapest
(Liberal weekly), Budapest
http://beszelo.c3.hu/
(Business-oriented), Budapest
http://www.bbj.hu/
(Daily), Budapest
http://www.budapestsun.com
(Weekly (German)), Budapest
http://www.budapester.hu/
(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.
András Lindner interviews Hungarian composer and conducter Peter Eötvös.
World Press Review correspondent David Koch reviews Hungarian press coverage of the remembrance of the Romani Holocaust.
Imre Keresztes, writing in Budapest's independent weekly HVG just before demonstrations swept Tehran, looks at how the United States and the Iraq war have changed the dynamic within Iran.