Hungary’s unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in the June-August 2026 period from 4.6% a year earlier, the highest recorded rate since February 2026. The number of unemployed people increased by 18,100 year-on-year to 234,700. Unemployment stood at 4.5% among men and 5.1% among women, representing 116,500 unemployed men and 118,200 unemployed women. Jobseekers spent an average of 11.7 months looking for work. Among the unemployed, 42.6% had been seeking employment for less than three months, while the share searching for more than a year rose by 4.2 percentage points to 33.7%. Employment declined by 24,000 from a year earlier to 4.655 million, including 2.464 million men and 2.191 million women; female employment fell by 18,500.