The year 2021, the second year of the corona pandemic, brought Austria a birth increase of 2.4 percent. This is the result of the study “Families in Numbers 2022”, in which the Austrian Institute for Family Research summarizes the most important core data on Austrian families. The number of marriages will also increase in 2021.
After 83,603 births in 2020, exactly 86,078 were registered the following year. The number of marriages also rose from 39,662 in 2020 to 41,111 in 2021. In principle, the number of marriages increased with slight fluctuations until 2019, fell in 2020 due to the corona pandemic and increased slightly again in 2021.
Number of single parents decreased
The number of parents with one or more children under the age of 15 rose from 524,000 to 536,500 for married or registered partners. In contrast, the number of single parents with children under the age of 15 fell from 108,500 to 90,300. In the past ten years, the number of single parents has decreased by 19.5 percent.
Fewer marriages were divorced
According to a media newspaper from the department of Minister of Family Affairs Susanne Raab (ÖVP), Corona promoted cohesion because there were fewer divorces last year. A total of 14,510 marriages were divorced in 2021, a decrease of 2.4 percent compared to 2020. It was also 11.1 percent less than in the pre-corona year 2019. The decrease in 2020 caused by the corona pandemic continued in 2021 .
The number of families in terms of family statistics (couple households with and without children of all ages and single-parent families) increased by 5.4 percent between 2011 and 2021 (or by 127,300 families). Compared to 2020, there was another increase in 2021 – from 2,459,900 to 2,467,600.
Record value for institutional childcare
The rate of institutional childcare for children aged 0 to 3 rose from 29.9 percent in 2020 to 31.2 percent in 2021. For children aged 0 to 6, there was an increase of 93.8 percent in one year to 95 percent – in both cases a new record value in a ten-year comparison with 2011. More childcare allowance was also paid, namely 1.215 billion euros in the previous year compared to 1.201 billion euros in 2020.
Source: Krone
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