SWOT Analysis - Central Europe

31 bank and insurance company’s branch and regional management
functions in Pécs. Recently the Municipality of Pécs established new industrial
areas. First, in the immediate interior of the city - a long tradition of
representatives of local industries: machinery, leather and the precision
engineering – then in the eastern and southern industrial areas with fully
recultivation. Thus was established the Pécs Industrial Park area of 50 hectares
near the main highways.
Demography
For quite a long time, the city's population has grown more dynamically than
the national average (in the 1970s, peaked), from the early '90s, however, it
has been started significantly decreasing. Between 1985 and 2005 the
population of Pécs decreased by 12.3% (20,988 persons). In Pécs , similar to
nationally representative rates, the number of women is higher than men. The
proportion of older people is more than 3% of young people (14 years).
Two city of Pécs , is one of the most important centre of officially recognized
national minorities in Hungary: the Germans and the Croats. It is interesting to
note that while the entire population of the city is decreasing, the number of
minorities increased slightly over the last few decades, although it is applies
mostly to the Gypsies. The number of Germans in 1980 were 996, in 1990 were,
1704, so it had increased. The number of Croats also slightly increased: in
1980, there were 629 of them, in 1990, 637 people, and in 2001, 820 people
declared themselves Croat nationality in Pécs. We should note though that
slight growth in number in the statistical data, is due to the changing of social
atmosphere and the new census questionnaire.