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Demographics of Austria

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Demographics of Austria
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Demographic features of the population of Austria include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Population density in Austria by district.
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According to the 2001 population census, 88.6% are native German speakers (96% Austro-Bavarian language and 4% Alemannic language) while the remaining 11.4% speak several minority languages. The non-German speakers of Austria can be divided into two groups: traditional minorities, who are related to territories formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy, and new minorities, resulting from recent immigration.

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Population

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Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review.[4]

  • One birth every 6 minutes
  • One death every 6 minutes
  • One net migrant every 26 minutes
  • Net gain of one person every 26 minutes
millionyear5.566.577.588.599.5189019201950198020102040population (million)Austria Population
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years-20-100102030405019001920194019601980200020202040Natural change (per 1000)Crude migration change (per 1000)Austria Population Change
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TFRyears11.522.533.544.519001920194019601980200020202040Total Fertility RateTotal Fertility Rate
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Fertility

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TFR of Austria to 2016

The total fertility rate is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period in the present-day Hungary. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.[6]

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Total fertility rate

1.48 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 199th

Mother's mean age at first birth
29 years (2014 est.)

Life expectancy

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Life expectancy in Austria since 1870
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Life expectancy in Austria since 1960 by gender
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 81.7 years. Country comparison to the world: 24th
male: 79 years
female: 84.5 years (2018 est.)

Age structure

0–14 years: 14% (male 630,739 /female 600,663)
15–24 years: 10.82% (male 484,515 /female 467,064)
25–54 years: 42.1% (male 1,851,209 /female 1,851,100)
55–64 years: 13.63% (male 595,146 /female 603,249)
65 years and over: 19.44% (male 743,174 /female 966,511) (2018 est.)
Median age
total: 44.2 years. Country comparison to the world: 12th
male: 42.9 years
female: 45.4 years (2018 est.)

Cities, urbanisation and population density

urban population: 58.3% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: 0.59% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
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Vital statistics

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Data according to Statistik Austria.[7][8]

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In the year 2023, 32% of all newborns had mothers with a foreign (non-Austrian) nationality and 34.7% had foreign-born mothers.[10]

Current vital statistics

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Total fertility rates by nationality and region

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Structure of the population

Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 31.X.2011): [16]
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Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.I.2020): [16]
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Ethnic groups

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Traditional ethnic minorities in Austria

Only three numerically significant traditional minority groups exist – 13,109 Carinthian Slovenes (according to the 2001 census – unofficial estimates of Slovene organisations put the number at 50,000) in Austrian Carinthia (south central Austria) and about 25,000 Croats and 20,000 Hungarians in Burgenland (on the Hungarian border). The Slovenes (also called 'Windische') form a closely knit community. Their rights as well as those of the Croats are protected by law and generally respected in practice. The present boundaries of Austria, once the center of the Habsburg monarchy that constituted the second-largest composite monarchy in Europe, were established in accordance with the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919. Some Austrians, particularly near Vienna, still have relatives in countries that made up the Monarchy, namely Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.

New ethnic minorities in Austria

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Austria does not collect data on the ethnicity or race of its citizens but does collect data on the nationality of residents currently in the country.[17]

According to the Austrian Statistical Bureau, 814,800 foreigners legally lived in Austria in mid-2006, representing 9.8% of the total population, one of the highest rates in Europe.

Of these foreign residents, 305,100 came from the former Yugoslavia and 110,800 from Turkey.

Owing to a growing naturalization rate, 330,000 people have been naturalized between 1985 and the end of 2003, representing about 4% of the 7.4 million Austrian citizens living today in the country.[citation needed]

Of these new citizens 110,000 came from the former Yugoslavia and 90,000 from Turkey.[citation needed] Considering pre-1985 naturalizations, in 2005 at least 18% (in Vienna more than 30%) of the population was either foreign or of foreign origin. Native Austrians have had stagnant demographics since World War I, and have been in absolute decline since the 1970s.[citation needed]

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Foreign nationals within Austria in 2022

Immigration

As of 2011, Statistik Austria official estimates have shown that 81% of residents, or 6.75 million[18] had no migration background and more than 19% or 1.6 million inhabitants[18] had at least one parent of immigrant background.[clarification needed] There are more than 415,000 descendants of foreign-born immigrants[18] residing in Austria, the great majority of whom have been naturalized.

According to Eurostat, there were 1.27 million foreign-born residents in Austria in 2010, corresponding to 15.2% of the total population. Of these, 764,000 (9.1%) were born outside the EU and 512,000 (6.1%) were born in another EU member state.[19]

350,000 ethnic Turks[20] (including a minority of Turkish Kurds) currently live in Austria. At about 3% of the total population, they make up the biggest single ethnic minority in Austria.

In 2018, the percentage of foreign born people was around 19% of the total population which is also the second highest foreign born proportion of all EU countries after Luxembourg.

Migration data of Austria, 2013–present

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As of 2023, the most common groups of foreign residents in Austria were as follows:[25]

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Naturalisation

Foreign nationals may apply for Austrian citizenship under the following preconditions: at least 10 years of continuous stay in Austria (a minimum of five years of which as a permanent resident), sufficient financial means/secure income, no criminal record, sufficient knowledge of the German language, positive attitude towards the Republic of Austria. EEA citizens may apply for citizenship after six years of permanent residence in Austria.[26]

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Languages

  • German (official nationwide) 88.8% (94% Austrian German, 6% Alemannic)
  • Turkish 2.5%
  • Serbian 2.3%
  • Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.3%
  • Slovene (official in Carinthia) 0.2–0.5%
  • Hungarian (official in Burgenland) 0.2%
  • Czech 0.2%
  • Slovak 0.1%
  • Yiddish ?%
  • Romani ?%
  • Languages of the recent immigrant groups around 10% (Census 2001 (link from Web Archive))

Religion

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Religion in Austria (2021)[28]
  1. Catholicism (55.2%)
  2. Eastern Orthodoxy (4.9%)
  3. Protestantism (3.8%)
  4. Other Christians (4.3%)
  5. No religion (22.4%)
  6. Islam (8.3%)
  7. Other religions (1.1%)

In 2001, about 74% of Austria's population were registered as Roman Catholic,[29] while about 5% considered themselves Protestants.[29] Austrian Christians, both Catholic and Protestant,[30] are obliged to pay a mandatory membership fee (calculated by income—about 1%) to their church; this payment is called "Kirchenbeitrag" ("Ecclesiastical/Church contribution"). Since the second half of the 20th century, the number of adherents and churchgoers has declined. Data for the end of 2016 from the Austrian Roman Catholic church lists 5,162,622 members, or 58.8% of the total Austrian population. Sunday church attendance was 605,828 or 7% of the total Austrian population in 2015.[31] The Lutheran church also recorded a loss of 74,421 adherents between 2001 and 2016.

About 12% of the population declared that they have no religion[29] in 2001; this share had grown to 20% by 2015.[32] Of the remaining people, around 340,000 were registered as members of various Muslim communities in 2001, mainly due to the influx from Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.[29] The number of Muslims has doubled in 15 years to 700,000 in 2016.[33] About 680,000 are members of Eastern Orthodox Church (mostly Romanians and Serbs), about 21,000 people are active Jehovah's Witnesses[34] and about 8,100 are Jewish.[29]

An estimated 15,000 Jews or adherents of Judaism live in Austria, primarily in Vienna – a remnant of the post-World War II community after the Nazi Holocaust.

Newborn by religion

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  • In 2017, 41,259 out of the 87,633 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 38,096), 12,514 Muslim mother (father: 12,851) and 2,635 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,352).
  • In 2016, 43,190 out of the 87,675 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 38,884), 12,794 Muslim mother (father: 12,996) and 2,841 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,398).
  • In 2015, 41,783 out of the 84,381 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 37,036), 10,760 Muslim mother (father: 10,972) and 2,595 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,212).
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Notes

  1. In fertility rates, 2.1 and above is a stable population and has been marked blue, 2 and below leads to an aging population and the result is that the population decreases.

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