Fertility

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.^[5]

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

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.)

Current vital statistics

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More information Period, Live births ...

Period	Live births	Deaths	Natural increase
January - September 2022	61,996	67,136	-5,140
January - September 2023	58,593	64,893	-6,300
Difference	-3,403 (-5.49%)	-2,243 (-3.34%)	-1,160

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Nationality and birthplace of mothers

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In the year 2022 21.1% of all newborns had mothers with a foreign (non-Austrian) nationality and 33.4% had foreign-born mothers.

Structure of the population

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 '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

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.^[13]

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]}

Immigration

As of 2011, Statistik Austria official estimates have shown that 81% of residents, or 6.75 million^[14] had no migration background and more than 19% or 1.6 million inhabitants^[14] had at least one parent of immigrant background.^{[clarification needed]} There are more than 415,000 descendants of foreign-born immigrants^[14] 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.^[15]

350,000 ethnic Turks^[16] (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.

As of 2023^[update], the most common groups of foreign residents in Austria were as follows:^[18]

More information Rank, Nationality ...

Rank	Nationality	Population	% of foreign nationals
	Total	1,729,820	100
1	Germany	225,012	13.0
2	Romania	147,490	8.5
3	Turkey	120,706	7.0
4	Serbia	116,116	6.8
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	102,468	6.0
6	Croatia	101,803	5.8
7	Hungary	101,679	5.8
8	Syria	82,169	4.8
9	Ukraine	79,615	4.6
10	Poland	67,168	4.0
11	Afghanistan	50,378	3.0
12	Slovakia	48,477	2.8
13	Bulgaria	38,469	2.2
14	Italy	37,718	2.2
15	Russia	35,586	2.1
	Other nationalities	379,178	19

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Newborn by religion

• 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).