Hungary
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Hungary has no mining or refining share on record for the ten materials. In 2024 it imported $236M and exported $16M of them, by value (CEPII BACI).
$236M
imports of the ten materials in 2024, by value; most of it graphite
ANNUAL 2024
Exports of the ten materials
$16M
2024; most of it copper; 28 partner countries
Grid emissions intensity
162gCO2e/kWh
2025
Imports of the ten materials
$236M
2024; most of it graphite; 29 partner countries
Mining companies headquartered here
1
tagged in Wikidata, all commodities; coverage is uneven
Overview
Trade partners
1 recorded flow, 2024
- Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
- Hungary
Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.
| Partner | Material | Year | Value, US$ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Import fromChina | GraphiteRefine | 2024 | $164M |
Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.
Key facts
- Country code
- HUN
- GDP
- $246bn (2025)
- Mineral rents, share of GDP
- 0% (2021)
- Ores and metals, share of goods exports
- 1.3% (2025)
- Mining area, all commodities
- 71 km² (2019; rank 69 of 144)
Map
- Hungary
Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.
Supply chain
Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.
Production, refining and reserves
No data yet. No production, refining or reserves figure names this country.
Trade partners
1 recorded flow, 2024
- Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
- Hungary
Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.
| Partner | Material | Year | Value, US$ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Import fromChina | GraphiteRefine | 2024 | $164M |
Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.
0 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →
Money
What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.
All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials
Exports of the ten materials
$16Min 2024, with 28 partner countries
Copper$6.4M
Germany $3.9M · Poland $2.3M · Spain $102,500 · United States $48,990 · Italy $4,937 · 3 more
Nickel$5.5M
Singapore $2.3M · Thailand $1.6M · Malaysia $839,524 · Philippines $290,482 · Slovakia $244,835 · 4 more
Graphite$1.6M
Kazakhstan $966,645 · Saudi Arabia $294,203 · Republic of Korea $119,877 · China $70,327 · Poland $48,412 · 8 more
Tungsten$1.5M
Czech Republic $882,839 · Germany $540,632 · Austria $94,920 · France $7,921 · Switzerland $5,712 · 3 more
Cobalt$805,528
China $560,498 · Serbia $196,062 · Italy $18,955 · Singapore $9,624 · Croatia $9,010 · 5 more
Lithium$56,152
Romania $56,144 · Netherlands $8
Antimony$15,203
United States $13,158 · Romania $2,031 · Netherlands $14
Rare earths$9,707
Slovakia $3,584 · Switzerland $3,520 · United States $1,427 · Tunisia $717 · Slovenia $339 · 3 more
Imports of the ten materials
$236Min 2024, with 29 partner countries
Graphite$177M
China $165M · Republic of Korea $4.3M · Switzerland $3.7M · Germany $1.5M · Japan $1.2M · 17 more
Copper$45M
Germany $29M · Poland $6.7M · Spain $4.5M · Austria $2M · Italy $1.3M · 10 more
Lithium$9.4M
Germany $7.7M · Republic of Korea $758,735 · Belgium $303,600 · Netherlands $278,223 · Poland $143,507 · 5 more
Antimony$1.8M
France $756,339 · Poland $419,491 · Republic of Korea $253,383 · Belgium $166,914 · United Kingdom $50,765 · 8 more
Cobalt$1.5M
Germany $483,458 · Serbia $295,271 · Romania $230,488 · United States $210,854 · Croatia $85,408 · 12 more
Nickel$1.2M
Germany $582,194 · Norway $320,459 · Belgium $190,198 · Italy $38,412 · Slovenia $28,545 · 9 more
Rare earths$908,246
France $411,361 · Netherlands $257,880 · Austria $108,852 · China $63,427 · Germany $35,689 · 9 more
Tungsten$87,044
Germany $24,983 · France $21,139 · Netherlands $14,646 · China $11,096 · United States $6,300 · 5 more
The economy around mining
World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.
GDP (current US$)
$246bn
Year 2025
Mineral rents (% of GDP)
0%
Year 2021
Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)
1.3%
Year 2025
Government revenue from extractives
No data yet. Hungary has no EITI summary record with a government total. Countries report only if they implement the EITI Standard; a missing record does not mean there is no such revenue.
Investment pipeline
announced figuresPlanned and under-construction projects in Hungary with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.
No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Hungary. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.
A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.
Public support instruments
Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Hungary's government and of the European Union, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.
2025-12-03announced · European UnionFundannounced
The Commission adopted the RESourceEU Action Plan: project financing, a European Critical Raw Materials Centre, joint purchasing through the Raw Materials Platform and a stockpiling pilot.
EUR 3 bn · “up to €3 billion over the next 12 months”
Covers: “critical raw materials, such as rare earth elements, cobalt or lithium” · Materials: Rare earths, Cobalt, Lithium
European Union instrument; applies through membership
The publisher's words: “The EU will mobilise up to €3 billion over the next 12 months to support concrete projects”
5 further statements from the source
adoption
The publisher's words: “The European Commission has adopted today the RESourceEU Action Plan”
European Critical Raw Materials Centre planned
The publisher's words: “In early 2026, the Commission will set up a European Critical Raw Materials Centre”
joint purchasing and offtake via the Raw Materials Platform
The publisher's words: “the Raw Materials Platform will facilitate the efforts of the companies to aggregate demand, jointly purchase strategic raw materials and secure offtake agreements”
stockpiling pilot
The publisher's words: “with a pilot scheme set to become operational in early 2026”
materials named
The publisher's words: “secure the EU's supply of critical raw materials, such as rare earth elements, cobalt or lithium”
2024-05-23in force from · European UnionJoint purchasingin force
The Critical Raw Materials Act obliges the Commission to run a demand-aggregation and joint-purchasing system for strategic raw materials and to set a benchmark for strategic stocks.
Covers: “strategic raw materials” · Materials: Cobalt, Copper, Gallium, Germanium, Lithium, Graphite, Nickel, Rare earths, Tungsten
European Union instrument; applies through membership
The publisher's words: “The Commission shall set up and operate a system to aggregate the demand of interested undertakings consuming strategic raw materials established in the Union”
2 further statements from the source
joint negotiation of purchases allowed (Article 25(5))
The publisher's words: “may, on a transparent basis, jointly negotiate the purchase, including the prices or other terms and conditions of the purchasing agreement”
coordination of strategic stocks (Article 23)
The publisher's words: “shall adopt a benchmark indicating a safe level of Union strategic stocks of strategic raw materials”
Mining companies headquartered here · 1
Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Hungary, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.
| Company | Headquarters | Stock listing | LEI | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAL Hungarian Aluminium | Ajka | — | — |
These figures are informational, not financial advice.
Sustainability
Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.
Carbon
Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.
162gCO2e/kWh
Higher than 22% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.
- It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.
Water
Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.
No mine or brine site with a water-stress class is on record in this country.
- Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
- "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.
Land
Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.
71km²
Higher than 52% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.
- Rank 69 of 144 countries by area.
- Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.
Circularity
Recycling's share of demand.
Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.
There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures
Risks & policy
Export controls in force
Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.
USGS Table 4 lists no export control by this country for the materials in the atlas.
Chokepoints at sea
The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page
Gaps
What the atlas is missing for Hungary
Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.
None of the checks finds a missing record. That does not mean the record is complete.
- Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 1 of them name this country.
Sources
Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.
- CEPII BACI 202601 ↗3 records used
- Licence
- Etalab Open Licence 2.0
- As of
- 2024
- Confidence
- Estimated
- World Bank WDI ↗3 records used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2021–2025
- Confidence
- Reported
- Ember Yearly Electricity Data ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2025
- Confidence
- Reported
- Maus et al. 2022 (mining areas v2) ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
- As of
- 2019
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Wikidata ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- As of
- 2026
- Confidence
- Inferred, needs review
The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.
History & talk
Revision history and discussion are coming soon.
Every change to a figure will be listed here with its source, its credit and its review, and each profile will have a place to discuss it. Until then the data changes only when a source is updated, and every figure links to that source.
What we don't know yet
No open source we may use gives these figures. Nothing is estimated to fill them. If you know a public source, add it.
- Materials with a production share: No production table names this country.Add data: Materials with a production share: No production table names this country.
- Sites on record: No mine or plant on record here.Add data: Sites on record: No mine or plant on record here.
- Import dependence: no open per-country series is loaded yet.Add data: Import dependence: no open per-country series is loaded yet.
- Recycling rates: Eurostat publishes them for the EU as a whole, not for one country.Add data: Recycling rates: Eurostat publishes them for the EU as a whole, not for one country.