Country comparison: Hungary / Romania

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Hungary and Romania. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Hungary	Romania
Region:	Eastern Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	93,030 km²	238,400 km²
National language:	Hungarian	Romanian
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1918 AD	1878 AD
Capital:	Budapest	Bucharest

Population

Details for Hungary and Romania

	Hungary	Romania
Population:	9,710,000	19,120,000
Inhabitants/km²:	104.4	80.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 43.6 years	Ø 42.5 years
Birth rate:	9.60 ‰	9.20 ‰
Death rate:	14.50 ‰	15.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.23 ‰	-4.36 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Hungary	Romania
Political stability:	72	66
Civil rights:	56	57
Health:	81	74
Climate:	43	37
Cost of Living:	56	68
Popularity:	48	24

Economy

Details for Hungary and Romania

	Hungary	Romania
Currency:	Hungarian forint (1 HUF = 100 Fillér)	Romanian leu (1 RON =100 Bani)
Unemployment rate:	4.1 %	5.2 %
Inflation rate:	5.11 %	5.05 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	57.31 %	46.97 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.90 %	20.00 %
Average income:	17,740 US$	14,160 US$
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	54 (bad)

	HUN: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	181,848 M US$	18.73 M US$	284,088 M US$	14.86 M US$
Gross national product:	172,211 M US$	17.74 M US$	270,677 M US$	14.16 M US$
Exported goods:	148,229 M US$	15.27 M US$	115,879 M US$	6.06 M US$
Imported goods:	147,577 M US$	15.20 M US$	132,056 M US$	6.91 M US$
Gross debt:	135,874 M US$	13.99 M US$	137,924 M US$	7.21 M US$
Budget deficit:	12,348 M US$	1.27 M US$	20,180 M US$	1.06 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Hungary and Romania

	HUN: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	203,601 km	20.97 km	84,185 km	4.40 km
Railways:	7,588 km	0.78 km	10,759 km	0.56 km
Waterways:	1,622 km	0.17 km	1,731 km	0.09 km
Harbours:	1	0.0001	121	0.0063
Passenger airports:	4	0.0004	14	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Hungary and Romania

	HUN: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	39.37 bn kWh	4.05 m kWh	49.64 bn kWh	2.60 m kWh
Energy production:	30.22 bn kWh	3.11 m kWh	61.78 bn kWh	3.23 m kWh
Energy export:	5.24 bn kWh	539,655.90 kWh	11.22 bn kWh	586,823.77 kWh
Energy imports:	17.95 bn kWh	1.85 m kWh	4.18 bn kWh	218,463.71 kWh
CO2 emissions:	46.38 m t	4,776.57 t	73.95 m t	3,867.70 t

Telecommunication

Details for Hungary and Romania

	Hungary	Romania
International dialing:	+36	+40
Internet domain:	.hu	.ro

	HUN total	HUN per 1000 inh.	ROU total	ROU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,970,347	306	3,025,000	158
Mobile cellulars:	10,332,660	1064	22,592,000	1182
Internet server:	3,145,000	324	2,667,000	139
Internet users:	8,231,182	848	14,996,839	784
Broadband Internet:	3,382,136	348	6,099,000	319

Healthcare system

Details for Hungary and Romania

	Hungary	Romania
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	7.01	6.89
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	2.26
Diabetes:	6.9 %	6.9 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.08 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.45 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	66.0 %	82.0 %
Smokers:	31.8 %	28.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Hungary and Romania

	Hungary	Romania
Daytime temperatures:	16.7 °C	16.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.7 °C	6.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	78 %
Rain days:	7.1	7.3
Sunshine hours per day:	6.0	5.8

Native languages

	Hungary	Romania
Romanian:	1.0 %	85.4 %
Hungarian:	84.6 %	6.3 %
Slovakian:	1.2 %	n/a
Romany:	0.8 %	1.2 %
Serbian:	1.1 %	n/a
Croatian:	0.9 %	n/a
German:	0.7 %	0.4 %
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	9.7 %	6.3 %

Religions

	Hungary	Romania
Christianity:	52.8 %	92.6 %
Nondenominational:	18.2 %	0.2 %
Jewry:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	28.5 %	7.2 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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