More and more people are working in the IT sector

The Hungarian data is slightly lower than the EU average, but the share of people working in IT in Hungary is still above 4%. Sweden had the highest share of ICT professionals (8.7%), while Greece had the lowest (2.4%). The share of female ICT professionals has also increased, with almost one in five ICT professionals in 2023 being women. Interestingly, Bulgaria had the highest proportion of women (29.1%) and the Czech Republic the lowest (12.4%), which is difficult to explain, as the Czech Republic is thought to be a more developed, westernized society. The figure for Hungarians is around 15%, a hair’s breadth below the Italian figure, for example.