Editing Visegrád Group (section)

===Hungary===
[[File:Budapest Parlament Building.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Budapest]], Hungary]]
Hungary has the group's third largest economy (total GDP of US$350.000 billion, 53rd in the world). Hungary was one of the more developed economies of the Eastern bloc. With about $18 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union. Of this, about $6 billion came from American companies. Now it is an industrial agricultural state. The main industries are engineering, mechanical engineering (cars, buses), chemical, electrical, textile, and food industries. The services sector accounted for 64.8% of GDP in 2017 (est.).<ref>{{Citation |title=Hungary |date=2024-08-07 |work=The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/hungary/ |access-date=2024-08-18 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en}}</ref>

The main sectors of Hungarian industry are heavy industry (mining, metallurgy, machine and steel production), energy production, mechanical engineering, chemicals, food industry, and automobile production. The industry is leaning mainly on processing industry and (including construction) accounted for 29.32% of GDP in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.profitline.hu/index.php/hircentrum/hir/130567/link5 |title=Elemzői reakciók az ipari termelési adatra (Analysts' Reaction on Industrial Production Data) |date=7 April 2009 |language=hu |access-date=18 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227154237/http://profitline.hu/index.php/hircentrum/hir/130567/link5 |archive-date=27 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The leading industry is machinery, followed by the chemical industry (plastic production, pharmaceuticals), while mining, metallurgy and textile industry seemed to be losing importance in the past two decades. In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, the food industry still contributes up to 14% of total industrial production and amounts to 7–8% of the country's exports.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itdh.com/engine.aspx?page=Trade_Food_Industry |title=Food Industry |website=Itdh.com |access-date=18 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713065323/http://www.itdh.com/engine.aspx?page=Trade_Food_Industry |archive-date=13 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Agriculture accounted for 4.3% of GDP in 2008 and along with the food industry occupied roughly 7.7% of the labour force.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/eng/xstadat/xstadat_annual/tabl3_01_02iec.html |title=Value and distribution of gross value added by industries |year=2009 |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office |access-date=31 December 2009 }}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/eng/xstadat/xstadat_annual/tabl2_01_04iea.html |title=Number of employed persons by industries |year=2009 |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office |access-date=31 December 2009 }}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Tourism employs nearly 150,000 people and the total income from tourism was 4 billion euros in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/ksh/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/jeltur/jeltur08t.pdf |title=Táblamelléklet (Tables) |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office|access-date=18 January 2010}}</ref> One of Hungary's top tourist destinations is [[Lake Balaton]], the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with 1.2 million visitors in 2008. The most visited region is Budapest; the Hungarian capital attracted 3.61 million visitors in 2008. Hungary was the world's 24th most visited country in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tourismroi.com/Content_Attachments/27670/File_633513750035785076.pdf |title=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer |date=January 2013 |publisher=World Tourism Organisation|access-date=3 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819191518/http://www.tourismroi.com/Content_Attachments/27670/File_633513750035785076.pdf |archive-date=19 August 2008}}</ref>