Austria’s population has grown to 9.1 million people: according to preliminary data from Statistics Austria, 9,106,126 people lived in the country on 1 January 2023, 127,197 (plus 1.4 percent) more than at the beginning of 2022. More than half of The increase is due to the war in Ukraine.
After the population had already passed the nine million mark in the first quarter of 2022 due to refugee migration from Ukraine, there were more than 9.1 million at the beginning of 2023. Overall, Ukrainians recorded the strongest increase among all foreign nationalities (plus 66,899 people). The 79,572 Ukrainians at the beginning of the year are the ninth foreign nationality in Austria.
The Germans are still leading with 225,106 men. The second largest nationality in Austria is Romania with 147,403 nationals to 122,016 people from Serbia in third place, Statistics Austria reports. On the reporting date, a total of 1,730,286 people with a foreign nationality lived in Austria. Their share of the total population increased from 17.7 percent on January 1, 2022 to 19 percent on January 1, 2023. While the number of foreigners increased, the number of red-white-red citizens decreased.
Vienna grew the fastest, Carinthia in last place
In a comparison of the federal states, Vienna grew the most with 2.6 percent. In Burgenland the increase was about half as large at plus 1.3 percent, in Upper Austria, Vorarlberg and Lower Austria slightly lower (each plus 1.2 percent). In Salzburg, Styria and Tyrol, the population each grew by one percent, while the increase was smallest in Carinthia, at 0.8 percent. Only four political districts (Rust, Gmünd, Lilienfeld and Wolfsberg) experienced a population decline of the order of one percent. All other districts recorded increases.
Source: Krone
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