In a year-over-year comparison, Austria’s population grew by 125,843 people or 1.4 percent, more than at any time since World War II. According to the final balance, on January 1, 2023, there were 9,104,772 people living in the country. 67,353 Ukrainian nationals more than a year ago accounted for the increase. The birth balance, on the other hand, was clearly negative again.
“This is the biggest increase since the Second Republic came into being,” Tobias Thomas, Austria’s head of statistics, said Thursday. “The population grew solely through international immigration.” In 2022, almost 137,000 more people immigrated from abroad than emigrated there. After the Ukrainians, 14,127 Syrian and 8,891 German citizens moved to second place net (immigration and emigration balance).
Stronger immigration than in 2015, share of foreigners 19 percent
261,937 people had moved to Austria from abroad in the past year, 124,958 people emigrated abroad. Compared to the previous year, net immigration increased by 161 percent. This was higher than in the high immigration year of 2015. On 1 January 2023, a total of 1,729,820 people with a non-Austrian nationality lived in the state, 143,111 more than a year earlier. The share of foreigners in the total population rose from 17.7 to 19.0 percent.
Clear leader Vienna, all other countries below average
Vienna experienced the strongest population growth at 2.6 percent, while growth in all other states was at least slightly below the Austrian average of 1.4 percent. In Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vorarlberg the population each grew by 1.2 percent, in Salzburg and Styria by 1.0 percent and in Tyrol by 0.9 percent. With an increase of 0.8 percent, Carinthia registered the smallest population increase compared to a year earlier.
Strongly negative birth balance
“For the third year in a row, the number of births was very negative with a minus of 10,705 people and dampened population growth a bit,” said Thomas, head of statistics Austria. A total of 82,627 children were born in 2022, four percent less than in 2021. In the same period, 93,332 people died, 1.5 percent more than the year before. In relation to the population, this corresponds to a birth rate of 9.1 per thousand and a death rate of 10.3 per thousand. The number of deaths in the first year of life was 202, so the infant mortality rate was 2.4 per thousand.
Source: Krone
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