Demographics & population — Austria
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Austria: 8,967,982
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Population overview
- Population
8,967,982
- Population Growth Rate
0.3%
- Population Distribution
the northern and eastern portions of the country are more densely populated; nearly two-thirds of the populace lives in urban areas
- Urban Population
- urban population: 59.5%
- of total population rate of urbanization: 0.68% annual rate of change
- Population in Major Urban Areas
1.975 million VIENNA (capital)
- Population: Male/Female
- male: 4,392,898
- female: 4,575,084
Age & family
- Age Structure
- years: 14.1% (male 648,639/female 616,334) 15-64
- years: 64.7% (male 2,904,587/female 2,898,339) 65
- years and over: 21.2% (male 839,672/female 1,060,411)
- Median Age
- total: 44.9
- years male: 43.6
- years female: 46.3 years
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
9
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
9.9
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.52
- Gross reproduction rate
1
- Contraceptive Prevalance Rate - female 12-49
79%
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate - female 12-49
79%
- Currently married women (ages 15-49)
58.7%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
29.7
- Mother's mean age at first birth
29.7
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
- at birth: 1.05
- male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.05
- male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1
- male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.79
- male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
3.5
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Austrian 80.8%, German 2.6%, Bosnian and Herzegovinian 1.9%, Turkish 1.8%, Serbian 1.6%, Romanian 1.3%, other 10%
- Language Note
German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in southern Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3%
- Nationality Noun
- Austrian(s) adjective: Austrian
Education
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
5.1%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
- total: 16
- years male: 16
- years female: 16 years
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- total population: 82.7
- years male: 80.1
- years female: 85.4 years
- Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 3.2 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.6 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 2.7 deaths/1,000 live births
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- total: 3.2 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.6 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 2.7 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
5
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
5.29
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
7.3
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
11.5%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
20.1%
- Tobacco Use
- total: 26.4%
- male: 27.7%
- female: 25%
- Alcohol consumption per capita
- total: 11.9
- liters of pure alcohol beer: 6.3
- liters of pure alcohol wine: 3.7
- liters of pure alcohol spirits: 1.9
- liters of pure alcohol other alcohols: 0 liters of pure alcohol
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100% of population
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100% of population
