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General statistics of Austria
Reference: Much of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000, the 2003 U.S. Department of State website and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
1 The people
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Nationality |
noun: |
Austrian(s) |
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adjective |
Austrian |
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Language |
German: 92% of Austrians are native German speakers. Only two numerically significant minority groups exist -- 15,000 Slovenians in Austrian Carinthia (south central Austria) and about 17,000 Croats in Burgenland (on the Hungarian border). |
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Population |
8,131,111 Ranked 86th - Density |
(July 2000 est.) 97/kmē |
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Age structure |
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0-14 years: 17% |
male 697,283 |
female 663,459 |
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15-64 years: 68% |
male 2,787,555 |
female 2,731,446 |
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65 years +: 15% |
male 474,067 |
female 777,301 |
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Net migration rate |
2.46 migrants/1,000 population |
(2000 est.) |
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Population growth rate |
0.25% |
(2000 est.) |
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Birth rate |
9.9 births/1,000 population |
(2000 est.) |
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Death rate |
9.91 deaths/1,000 population |
(2000 est.) |
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Infant mortality rate: |
4.5 deaths/1,000 live births |
(2000 est.) |
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Life expectancy at birth (2000) |
total population: |
77.68 years |
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male: |
74.52 years |
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female |
80.99 years |
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Total fertility rate |
1.39 children born/woman |
(2000 est.) |
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Religions |
73,6 % |
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4,7 % |
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4,2% |
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without religion |
12% |
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Ethnic groups |
Austrian |
98% |
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Croatian |
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Slovenian |
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other |
Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma |
