The Central Statistical Office (KSH) revised Hungary’s second-quarter GDP growth rate to 4.9 percent from 4.8 percent in a time series update published. KSH also revised its earlier reading of GDP growth for Q1 by 0.1 percentage point to 4.5 percent. It revised H1 GDP growth up 0.1 percentage point to 4.7 percent.
KSH noted that the updates of the time series of quarterly national accounts and GDP were published one and a half months earlier compared to the practice in previous years.
Regarding a different indicator, Hungary’s trade surplus came to 362 million euros in July.