Shocking! Here is how much Hungarians spend on prostitution

The Hungarian prostitution market reached 326.5 million EUR last year, which is 114.6 billion HUF. That means 0.5 pc of the altogether spending of the Hungarians. If we calculate with the 9.9 million Hungarians currently living in the country, from the babies to the elderly, everybody spent 33 EUR in 2020 on prostitutes.

Luxembourg and Hungary on top of prostitution list

According to penzcentrum.hu, there are only a few countries in Europe having any data on how much money their citizens spend on prostitution. Hungary is among them. Based on the latest statistics of the Eurostat, Hungarian households spent 0.5 pc of their expenditures on prostitutes. And those expenditures include everything from housing to utilities, from food to fuel and health to education.

This 0.5 pc is only higher in Luxembourg, where the households spend one pc of their expenditures on this service.

Interestingly, there are only a few countries publishing how much money their citizens spend on prostitutes. However, there are many sharing data about how much people spend on prostitution and other services like cosmetics, massage, or nail parlour.