The mining and quarrying sector, including oil and natural gas extraction, generated a gross output of CZK 67.3bn in 2017, decreasing by 0.7% y/y in real terms and recording the smallest drop in the period 2013-2017. The gross o🅷ut😼put of mining and ...

Russia’s vast territo💫ry, wide range ofও tourist attractions and proximity to European and Asian markets offer strong growth potential for the country’s tourism sector. However, high entry barriers, underdeveloped transport infrastructure ...

Poland has insignificant oil reserves and modest natural gas ones and is thus forced to import the bulk of energy sources to feed its growing economy. This creates a chronic trade deficit in crude oil, natural gas and petroleum🐬 products, which ...

In 2018, agriculture, forestry a𝓰nd fishing in Romania constituted 4.8% of the nominal GVA of the economy. The agricultural output value reachꦿed a record high of RON 90.2bn, up by 14.9% y/y. Animal production value was up by 5.5% y/y, while crop ...

Hungarian agricultural output amounted to HUF 2,594.7bn in 2017, up by 0.🦹3% y/y. In volume🌳 terms the output shrank by 4.1% y/y, as unfavourable weather conditions affected crop production, which made up 58% of the sector’s overall output value ...

Generating some 1🅷4% of Russia’s GDP and employing over 13mn people, the retail sector is a significant driver of the country’s economy. In 2018, retail trade turnover increased by 6.2% y/y in value terms and by 2.8% y/y in ...

The mining industry is of strategic impo🎉rtance to the Russian economy, contributing about 12% to the  GDP, providing jobs to 1.1mn people and contributing a third to government revenues. Since Russia hosts one of the world’s largest ...

♓Romania is EU’s third largest natural gas and the fifth largest๊ crude oil producer. The crude oil and natural gas production value came in at RON 17.8bn in 2018, or 19% of the country’s GDP at current prices. The sector provided ...

The changing demographic and disease profiles of Hungary were th🎶e drivers of the expansion of health expenditure in recent years. As a result, the country spent 7.4% of its GDP on healthcare in 2016, still below the EU average. The government ...

Turkey has a well-developed food and beverage industry, which ser🐭ves a population of over 82mn and around 40mn tourists annually. The sector accounts for almost 14% of Turkey’s total industrial production and is among the ✱few having a positive ...