Demographics of Austria

Population

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook and Statistik Austria.

Nationality

noun: Austrian(s)adjective: Austrian

Population

8,572,895 (2014 est.)country comparison to the world: 93

Age structure

0-14 years: 13.6% (male 573,146/female 546,596)15-24 years: 11.6% (male 488,564/female 468,891)25-54 years: 42.9% (male 1,766,729/female 1,756,880)55-64 years: 12.7% (male 515,913/female 528,988)65 years and over: 19.2% (male 670,750/female 906,605) (2014 est.)0–14 years: 14.5% (male 609,748/female 581,144)15–64 years: 67.5% (male 2,785,091/female 2,756,402)65 years and over: 18% (male 612,613/female 865,283) (2009 est.)0-14 years: 14% (male 590,855/female 563,300)15-64 years: 67.7% (male 2,793,725/female 2,769,840)65 years and over: 18.2% (male 627,456/female 872,104) (2011 est.)

Median age

Total: 44.3 yearsMale: 43.2 yearsFemale: 45.3 years (2014 est.)Total: 43 yearsMale: 41.9 yearsFemale: 44 years (2011 est.)

Birth rate

8.76 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)country comparison to the world: 214

Death rate

10.38 deaths/1,000 population (July 2014 est.)country comparison to the world: 42

Net migration rate

1.76 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2014 est.)country comparison to the world: 50

Population growth rate

0.01% (2014 est.)country comparison to the world: 191

Total fertility rate

1.43 children born/woman (2012 est.)country comparison to the world: 202

Urbanization

Urban population: 67.7% of total population (2011)Rate of urbanization: 0.48% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Sex ratio

At birth: 1.05 male(s)/female0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female65 years and over: 0.73 male(s)/femaleTotal population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2014 est.)

Infant mortality rate

Total: 4.16 deaths/1,000 live birthscountry comparison to the world: 196Male: 5.01 deaths/1,000 live birthsFemale: 3.27 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.)

Maternal mortality rate

4 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)country comparison to the world: 178

Life expectancy at birth

Total population: 80.17 yearscountry comparison to the world: 32Male: 77.25 yearsFemale: 83.24 years (2014 est.)

HIV/AIDS

Adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2009 est.)country comparison to the world: 90People living with HIV/AIDS: 15,000 (2009 est.)country comparison to the world: 84New Infections with HIV/AIDS: 453 (2005)Deaths: 54 (2004)

Health expenditures

11% of GDP (2009)country comparison to the world: 20

Physicians density

4.749 physicians/1,000 population (2009)country comparison to the world: 6

Hospital bed density

7.6 beds/1,000 population (2010)country comparison to the world: 9

Education expenditures

5.9% of GDP (2007)country comparison to the world: 44

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read and writeTotal population: 98%Male: NA%Female: NA%Illiterates: some 3–4% of Austrians are functionally illiterate

Vital statistics since 1900

Data according to Statistik Austria.

Current natural increase

Number of births January–June 2015 = 41,155

Number of births January–June 2016 = 42,341

Number of deaths January–June 2015 = 43,208

Number of deaths January–June 2016 = 40,044

Natural population growth January–June 2015 = -2,053

Natural population growth January–June 2016 = 2,297

Fertility

Total Fertility Rate by religion:

2001: Roman Catholic – 1.52; Protestant – 1.21; Islam – 2.23 Other religions – 1.44; Nonreligious – 1.34

2015: Roman Catholic – 1.74; Protestant – 1.53; Islam – 1.47 Other religions – 1.31; Nonreligious – 1.16

Note that the Muslim population in Austria in 2015 is mostly Turks and Bosniaks, who have transitioned to low birth rates.

In 2014, 81,722 new babies were born in Austria, of which, 11,029 had a Muslim mother, 45,500 had a Roman Catholic mother, 2,936 had a Protestant mother, and 22,257 had either a nonreligious mother or one of another religion.

Births out of wedlock – 38.4%

Total Fertility Rate by state (2013): Upper Austria: 1.46
Lower Austria: 1.69
Burgenland: 1.77
Styria: 1.36
Carinthia: 1.34
Salzburg: 1.48
Tyrol: 1.68
Vorarlberg: 1.37
Vienna: 1.25
Total Austria: 1.43

Traditional ethnic minorities in Austria

Only three numerically significant traditional minority groups exist – 14,000 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 'Windischer') 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 Empire that constituted the second-largest state 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

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.

Of these new citizens 110,000 came from the former Yugoslavia and 90,000 from Turkey. 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.

Immigration

As of 2011, Statistik Austria official estimates have shown that 81% of residents, or 6.75 million had no migration background and more than 19% or 1.6 million inhabitants had at least one parent of immigrant background. There are more than 415,000 descendants of foreign-born immigrants 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.

350,000 ethnic Turks (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.

13,000 Turks were naturalized in 2003 and an unknown number arrived in Austria at the same time. While 2,000 Turks left Austria in the same year, 10,000 arrived in the country, confirming a strong trend of growth.

Languages

German (official nationwide) 88.8% (94% Bavarian, 6% Alemanic)

Serbo-Croatian 3.7% (2.4% Serbian, 1.3% Croatian (official in Burgenland))

Turkish 2.3%

Slovene (official in Carinthia) 0.2–0.5%

Hungarian (official in Burgenland) 0.2%

Czech 0.2%

Slovak 0.1%

Yiddish ?%

Romany ?%

Languages of the recent immigrant groups around 10% (Census 2001)

The role of religion

About 73.6% of all Austrians are Roman Catholic. The church abstains from political activity; however, lay Catholic organizations are aligned with the conservative People's Party. The Social Democratic Party continues to have an anticlerical stance. Small Lutheran minorities are located mainly in Vienna, Carinthia, and Burgenland. 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. Immigration during the last decades has increased the percentage of Muslims to 4.2%.

Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, in 2014 about 600,000-650,000, about 7.5% (other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12%)

Roman Catholicism in Austria

Buddhism in Austria

Hinduism in Austria

Islam in Austria

Sikhism in Austria

History of the Jews in Austria

Pre-Christian Alpine traditions