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Austria

9,208,163

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+30.18K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+14.9%from 8.01M
Life expectancy82.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.31births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.7%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Austria is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+21.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-1.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+11.25Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Austria look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 8.72M in 2050—4.3% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20249.12M
  2. 20508.72M
  3. 21007.4M
Median age in 205049.2years
Births in 205069.94Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050114.79Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19607.05M
  2. 19707.47M
  3. 19807.55M
  4. 19907.68M
  5. 20008.01M
  6. 20108.36M
  7. 20208.92M
  8. 20259.21M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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