The figure refers to workers still connected to Hungary through residency or family ties and does not include the more than half a million Hungarians who have permanently emigrated.

The KSH report showed that 214,100 people were unemployed in June, corresponding to a 4.4% jobless rate.

Job-seekers spent an average of 12.5 months looking for work, but 36.7% of the jobless found new positions in under three months.

The percentage of jobless who had been looking for work for at least one year reached 35.3%.

There were 4.63 million employed at the end of June, broadly unchanged from recent months but nearly 30,000 fewer than a year earlier.

Excluding those working abroad and public workers, employment on the primary domestic labour market stood at 4.44 million, down by 50,000 year-on-year.

MTI Reports: More Than 1 in 10 Hungarians Have Worked Overseas, Survey Shows

According to a representative survey conducted by job portal Profession.hu, approximately twelve percent of Hungarians — or more than one in ten — have gained professional experience working abroad.

The survey shed light on the primary motivations driving Hungarians to seek employment across borders, as well as the types of roles they took on and the duration of their time spent outside the country.

Financial incentives remain the single largest factor behind this labor mobility. Seeking higher remuneration was cited as the primary reason for moving by thirty-one percent of respondents who had worked abroad.

Beyond compensation, personal and lifestyle motivations played a significant role in these decisions.

Sixteen percent of participants relocated for family reasons, while fourteen percent made the move specifically to sharpen their foreign language skills.

Another fourteen percent took on jobs overseas driven by a desire to immerse themselves in a different culture and experience life in another country.

The data also reveals a distinct picture of the occupational breakdown among those who ventured abroad.

A large majority — around seventy percent — were employed in blue-collar positions during their tenure overseas.

White-collar professionals accounted for thirty-four percent of those surveyed, while a smaller subset of eleven percent worked as sole proprietors or business owners.

When it came to the duration of these overseas stays, relatively few Hungarians settled abroad long term. The largest group, comprising thirty-four percent of respondents, worked outside Hungary for a period of one to two years.

Meanwhile, twenty-nine percent spent only a few months working abroad before returning, highlighting a strong trend toward temporary and short-term international employment rather than permanent relocation.

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