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Hungary

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Facts

Population: 9,956,108 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 15.3% (male 785,643/female 741,907) 15-64 years: 69.3% (male 3,399,926/female 3,498,403) 65 years and over: 15.4% (male 554,356/female 975,873) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: -0.253% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 9.66 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 13.05 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 0.86 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.059 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.972 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.568 male(s)/female total population: 0.909 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 8.21 deaths/1,000 live births male: 8.91 deaths/1,000 live births female: 7.46 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.92 years male: 68.73 years female: 77.38 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.33 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 2,800 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2001 est.).

Nationality: noun: Hungarian(s) adjective: Hungarian.

Ethnic groups: Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 1.9%, other or unknown 5.8% (2001 census).

Religions: Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census).

Languages: Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census).

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.4% male: 99.5% female: 99.3% (2003 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $175.2 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 3.9% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $17,600 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.1% industry: 32.1% services: 64.8% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 4.2 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 5.5% industry: 33.3% services: 61.2% (2003).

Population below poverty line: 8.6% (1993 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.1% highest 10%: 22.2% (2002).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.7% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 7.4% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $48.73 billion expenditures: $59.62 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, sugar beets; pigs, cattle, poultry, dairy products.

Industries: mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods, textiles, chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), motor vehicles.

Industrial production growth rate: 9.5% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 31.83 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 37.1 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 6.3 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 13.8 billion kWh (2004).

Exports: $67.99 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment 61.1%, other manufactures 28.7%, food products 6.5%, raw materials 2%, fuels and electricity 1.6% (2003).

Exports - partners: Germany 30.2%, Italy 5.7%, Austria 5.6%, France 5.3%, UK 5.1% (2005).

Imports: $69.75 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment 51.6%, other manufactures 35.7%, fuels and electricity 7.7%, food products 3.1%, raw materials 2.0% (2003).

Imports - partners: Germany 27.5%, Russia 7.4%, China 7.1%, Austria 6.6%, France 4.9%, Italy 4.9%, Netherlands 4.3% (2005).

Debt - external: $107.3 billion (30 June 2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $3.4 billion in available EU structural adjustment and cohesion funds (2004-06).

Currency (code): forint (HUF).

Exchange rates: forints per US dollar - 210.39 (2006), 199.58 (2005), 202.75 (2004), 224.31 (2003), 257.89 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.

Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.

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/

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'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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