The picture seems positive when considering the development of either final energy consumption or primary energy consumption. Compared to the year 2005, the basis year for the measurement of energy efficiency – taking the 2005 energy consumption values as 100 – the level of final energy consumption in Hungary fell to 80.9 by 2012, with the primary energy consumption dropping to 84.6 by the same year. This improvement even greater than both the EU average and the average values in the region of 92 to 93 registered in the Visegrad countries. It could be argued, however, that this improvement has been strongly dependent on the forced reduction in consumption in Hungary (which was far less pronounced on the level of the EU as a whole, or indeed in the V4 average).