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Ranklists 2018: Hungary’s most interesting facts in numbers
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At the end of the year or in the first month of the next year it is usual that countries’ statistical offices make summaries. Many of these surveys are objective ones about the EU or another country’s stats, but eventually, statistics can tell about a country’s development situation and a broad judgement on the country’s issues.
Shortly before New Year’s Eve 2019, index.hu gathered stats about Hungary’s economic and demographical performance in 2018.
ACTUAL INDIVIDUAL CONSUMPTION
AIC deals with the level of quality a country’s population is living, can they afford much from their wages or not? Eurostat revealed statistics on European countries consumption in comparison. Every country is compared by EU average consumption. On this list Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, Great-Britain and Denmark are in the top 5. While lastly Bulgaria, before them Hungary, Croatia, Latvia and Romania. However, on the GDP growth list, Hungary takes the 3rd place, after Latvia and Poland.
MARKET COMPETITIVENESS
Market competitiveness index tells if the country is opened for investments or not, which cannot be seen from GDP only. World Economic Forum (WEF) created a list based on their subjective opinion of successful people in the business. Last year Hungary got 60th place on the list and 48th in 2018, which is seemingly more favourable.
FOOD PRODUCTION
Arguably one of the most major topics in 2018 was the issue of sustainability and climate change. According to CNN Intelligence Unit and Barilla’s joint survey, Hungary got the 10th place in 2018’s Food Sustainability Index. The index had three major aspects: the amount of food loss and waste, secondly sustainable agriculture and thirdly nutritional challenges (of the nation).
You can see more statistics on this link.
CORRUPTION
Transparency International’ survey includes a corruption index in the countries from 0 to 100. Where 100 being the least corrupt and lower is the more and more corruption. Hungary has 45 point, which is the second most corrupt among the EU countries, and Hungary has the same 45 points as Senegal.