Hungary
- Region
- Europe · Central Europe
- Capital
- Budapest
- Population
- 9,514,251 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary republic
- Currency
- Hungarian forint (HUF)
- Official languages
- Hungarian
- Spoken languages
- Hungarian (official) 98.8%, English 25.3%, German 12.6%, Russian 2.1%, French 1.5%, Romanian 1.4%, other 5.1% (2022 est.)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 93,028 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU, IMF, NATO, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Austria , Croatia , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Ukraine
Political stability
73 / 100
Economic stability
51 / 100
Population stability
40 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- cars, vehicle parts/accessories, electric batteries, packaged medicine, computers (2023)
- Key imports
- vehicle parts/accessories, natural gas, integrated circuits, broadcasting equipment, industrial acids/oils/alcohols (2023)
- Natural resources
- bauxite, coal, natural gas, fertile soils, arable land
- Luxury goods
- Tokaji wine
- Primary route
- Overland corridors to North Sea hub ports
- Secondary route
- Adriatic gateway ports (Koper, Trieste, Rijeka)
The xin.bz view
- Hungary’s August showed both stress and resilience: Paks nuclear output fell on Danube cooling constraints, solar ran ~20% above the prior year and at times covered over half of demand, and all four reactors were back at full production by August 26–27.
- It maintains restrictions on selected Ukrainian agricultural imports — border policy now belongs beside freight rates and river depth in Ukrainian export math.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Arriving With Eastern Europe's Waterways Already Depleted — Just as the World Needs Its Grain Corridors
The Danube at exceptional lows, Ukrainian grain exports at a third of last year's pace, Polish maize stepping up, and $588B of reconstruction demand waiting to reverse the corridors — Eastern Europe's recharge season decides 2027.
Future Insight ·
The Holiday Inventory Has Already Moved
Future Insights — the 2026 holiday season arrived through warehouses months before shoppers: purchase orders placed by May, inventory handed downstream in August, $1 trillion in U.S. sales on flat units, and factory labor tracing the new production map from India to Vietnam.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.