Industries · Gaming · Hungary · Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Gaming in Hungary

What people here follow in this industry today, what they spend on it and what it costs, from public data.

Gaming

Discord Rising Low confidence
instant messaging and VoIP software
Tech & AI · App Store · #28 in free apps
Rising in 2 countries
Hungary, Tunisia

The numbers

Recreation and culture

How fast prices rise (over a year): 3.7% Aug 2026 · Eurostat
How pricey it is against the world (World average = 100): 72.6 2021 · World Bank, ICP 2021
What households spend per person (US$ per person a year): US$845 2021 · World Bank, ICP 2021

How big the sector is

Share of the economy · services: 60.1% 2025 · World Bank
Share of jobs · services: 65.4% 2025 · World Bank (ILO estimate)

Spending and price levels are the World Bank’s latest benchmark (ICP 2021); price rises are the latest month from the OECD and Eurostat. Whole spending categories, not single products.

What we can and can’t see

1 topic people read, search, watch or download
Apps in the App Store charts
What households spend per person
How pricey it is against the world
How fast prices rise
The sector’s share of the economy
The sector’s share of jobs

We can’t see sales, the price of single products, company figures or what people buy in shops.

Other industries here

Travel & tourism Fashion & beauty Media & entertainment Music Sports & fitness Advertising & marketing Tech & software Health & pharma Education Government & public sector Nonprofits & NGOs

Careers: which fields are rising

Software development Design & creative

Pulse

Pulse: what readers say

Over the next year, do you think gaming will grow, stay the same or shrink where you live?

Readers who answered, not a representative sample.