Hungary: Jobless Rate Rises to 4.7% in July–September.

The unemployment rate in Hungary rose to 4.7% in the July–September 2026 period, up from 4.5% in the corresponding period a year earlier. The number of unemployed individuals increased by 8.4 thousand from a year ago to 229.9 thousand. Of the total unemployed, among men, the unemployment rate stood at 4.5%, with 115.8 thousand unemployed, while the number of unemployed women remained higher at 114.1 thousand, with an unemployment rate of 4.9%. Moreover, the average time spent looking for a job was 11.6 months. Among unemployed individuals, 43.1% had been seeking work for less than three months, while the share looking for work for more than a year increased by 3.3 percentage points to 32.5%. Meanwhile, the number of employed people decreased to 10 thousand year-on-year to 4.669 million. Employment among men reached 2.475 million, while employment among women decreased by 15.0 thousand to 2.194 million.