Hungary

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Location:
- Central Europe;
- Neighbours: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania.

Climate:
- temperate climate;
- cold, cloudy, humid winters;
- warm summers.

Macro indicators
* 2018 estimates
Surface:93,030km2
Population*:9.8million
Pop. density*:105.1people/km2
GDP*:130.9EUR billion
GDP/capita*:13,383.1EUR

European Union:
EU member, since 2004

Currency: Forint
Code: HUF
Since: 1946


Insurance market portfolio
* 2018 estimates
TOTAL LIFE*:47%
TOTAL NON-LIFE*:53%
Overall Property*:18%
Overall Motor*:26%


Sources:
Starting October 1, 2013, the National Bank of Hungary took over all activities of financial market regulator PSZAF






 

Aegon: Hungarian homeowners fear most fire and burglary damages

Although pipe bursts and storms are the risks causing each about one third of the housing insurance claims in Hungary, it seems people fear most fire damage and burglary, the latest edition of the Aegonʼs Great Home Test (Nagy Lakasteszt) shows.









Hungary: less than 20% of Hungarians have an accident insurance policy

Only 10-20% have an accident insurance, while in many countries of the Western Europe accident insurance coverage among their population is of more than 80%, The Budapest Business Journal reports. The low penetration leaves about 8 million Hungarians uninsured for the accident risk.







VIENNA Insurance Group completes mergers in Hungary and Slovakia

VIENNA Insurance Group announced Hungary's central bank approved the merger of the three VIG Group companies. Thus, starting 1 April 2018, VIG will be represented in Hungary solely by the insurance company UNION Biztosito, while in Slovakia, bancassurer Poistovna Slovenskej sporitelne (PSLSP) will merge with Kooperativa Poistovna.


HUNGARY: CIG Pannonia expands to Baltic states

Hungarian insurer CIG Pannonia is making inroads into markets in two of the Baltic states through its general insurance unit Elso Magyar Altalanos Biztosito (EMABIT), the company told national news agency MTI.