Hungary's food imports (% of merchandise imports) was 7.25% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.97 percentage points from 5.27% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.25% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.17% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.27% | 2015 |
| Highest | 15.27% | 1966 |
| Lowest | 2.91% | 2000 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.19% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 3.85% | 1964 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Hungary's food imports (% of merchandise imports) rose 0.31 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.94% to 7.25%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.43 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 10.93 percentage points in 1966 and the biggest yearly fall was 10.73 percentage points in 1967. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.15 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 72% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 7.36% for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.55%, against 0.71% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Hungary had the 88th highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 7.25% | 2025 |
| World | 8.88% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 10.73% | 2025 |
| High income | 9.08% | 2025 |
Closest to Hungary in the 2025 ranking
- Argentina — 84th of 103: 7.81%
- Paraguay — 85th of 103: 7.8%
- Bolivia — 86th of 103: 7.62%
- Slovak Republic — 88th of 103: 7.24%
- South Africa — 89th of 103: 7.16%
- Czechia — 90th of 103: 7.05%
What this measures
Food comprises the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.
Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 59 values
| Year | Food imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.25 |
| 2024 | 6.94 |
| 2023 | 6.5 |
| 2022 | 6.18 |
| 2021 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 6.17 |
| 2019 | 5.74 |
| 2018 | 5.62 |
| 2017 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5.92 |
| 2015 |
Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
More private sector & trade data for Hungary
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$159.2 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$168.84 billion (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) — 0.87% (2025)
- Fuel imports (% of merchandise imports) — 8.66% (2025)
- Manufactures imports (% of merchandise imports) — 74.36% (2025)
- Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) — 2.41% (2025)
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 133.09% (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.34% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)
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Questions people ask
- What is Hungary's food imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 7.25% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1964?
- It is up 3.4 percentage points from 3.85% in 1964. The highest value was 15.27% in 1966 and the lowest 2.91% in 2000.
- How does Hungary rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.FOOD.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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