Archive:Europe 2020 indicators - Hungary
Data extracted in August 2019.
No planned update.
This Statistics Explained article is outdated and has been archived - for recent information on Europe 2020 strategy see here.
Source: Eurostat (see dedicated web section: Europe 2020 headline indicators)
Explanations on this radar chart are available here.
This article is part of a set of statistical articles on Europe 2020 strategy, focusing on the situation in Hungary.
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Overview
By 2017, Hungary had reduced its GHG emissions in ESD sectors by 8.8 % compared with the ESD base year, meaning it was well within its target to limit emission increases to 10 % by 2020. In 2017, the country also fulfilled its renewable energy commitment, but increases in primary energy consumption over the past few years has put Hungary 0.4 Mtoe above its national target. In 2018, Hungary took more than half a million people out of risk of poverty and social exclusion, thus meeting its poverty reduction target. Thanks to a 12.9 percentage point increase in its employment rate since 2008, the country in 2018 was just 0.6 percentage points below its 2020 target of 75 %. Progress towards the national education targets has been ambiguous since 2008. Although Hungary met its national target on tertiary education in 2014, by 2018 it was 0.3 percentage points away from it. An increase in the share of early school leavers from education and training over the past four years has also widened the target gap. In terms of R&D expenditure, Hungary was 0.45 percentage points below its national target in 2017, putting it closer to its target than the EU was to its overall target.
Source: Eurostat (see dedicated web section: Europe 2020 headline indicators)
Data sources
More information about the origin of the data and the calculation of indicators can be obtained via the Europe 2020 indicators dedicated website.
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Context
Europe 2020 is the EU’s agenda for jobs and growth for the current decade. It emphasises smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a way to strengthen the EU economy and prepare its structure for the challenges of the next decade. As a main objective, the strategy strives to deliver high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in the Member States, while reducing the impact on the natural environment.
Direct access to
- Towards robust quality management for European Statistics - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council COM(2011) 211 final.
- Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 on European statistics