Country or area · Western Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Austria population

Austria population now

9,105,789

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 8.9–9.3 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 9,130,429

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 9.10726 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 8.9–9.3 million
Median age: 44.9
Aged 65+: 21.6%

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AUT · 1950–2100 · in brief

Austria in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 9,130,429 people in Austria: the 99th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.11% of the world's people. That is 1.3 times its 1950 population of 6.9 million.

Its population peaked in 2023 at 9.1 million. The UN's medium projection has 7.4 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 4.1 million to 11.9 million.

Since 2022, more people have died here each year than have been born, and the UN's projection has that holding every year to 2100. Deaths also outnumbered births in 1975–1980, 1983, 1985–1986, 1999, 2003, 2009, 2012–2013 and 2020. The population still grew until 2023, because more people arrived than left.

The median age was 35.8 in 1950 and 44.1 in 2023; the projection has 50.5 in 2100. 20.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2023 at 6.0 million; in 2023 it was 6.0 million.

By size it is the 99th country in 2023; the projection puts it 110th in 2050 and 113th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Hungary in 2051, Greece in 2054 and Cuba in 2062. It is overtaken by Sierra Leone in 2027, Switzerland in 2029 and Laos in 2038.

Population, mid-2023: 9,130,429
Rank by population, 2023: 99 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.11%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.73% · +65,752 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 111
Land area, 2023: 82,520 km²
Births, 2023: 77,054
Deaths, 2023: 93,223
Net migration, 2023: +4,819
Children per woman, 2023: 1.32
Median age, 2023: 44.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 82.0 years
In a city, 2025: 33 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 6,936,450
Projected, mid-2050: 8,724,332
Projected, mid-2100: 7,399,328

AUT · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Austria, 1950–2100

Austria: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	6,937,809		107,515	85,786	2.09	64.8
1951	estimate	6,935,090		103,572	88,273	2.04	65.2
1952	estimate	6,925,877		103,551	83,489	2.07	66.8
1953	estimate	6,928,627		102,927	83,478	2.09	67.3
1954	estimate	6,935,536		103,512	84,724	2.14	67.3
1955	estimate	6,944,247		107,943	85,155	2.27	67.5
1956	estimate	6,949,063		114,939	87,033	2.46	67.7
1957	estimate	6,955,465		117,852	89,395	2.55	67.4
1958	estimate	6,976,204		119,795	86,107	2.59	68.5
1959	estimate	6,998,472		124,371	88,182	2.68	68.4
1960	estimate	7,030,057		125,933	89,765	2.69	68.8
1961	estimate	7,064,491		131,763	85,868	2.79	69.7
1962	estimate	7,107,624		133,371	90,967	2.80	69.5
1963	estimate	7,151,534		134,825	91,682	2.82	69.7
1964	estimate	7,199,453		133,431	89,202	2.78	70.1
1965	estimate	7,247,336		129,755	94,305	2.70	69.9
1966	estimate	7,293,494		128,980	91,587	2.67	70.2
1967	estimate	7,349,543		127,693	95,480	2.63	70.1
1968	estimate	7,403,035		126,192	96,135	2.58	70.3
1969	estimate	7,426,212		121,088	98,805	2.48	70.0
1970	estimate	7,454,391		112,196	98,937	2.29	70.1
1971	estimate	7,478,247		107,808	97,435	2.19	70.3
1972	estimate	7,521,022		103,181	95,409	2.08	70.6
1973	estimate	7,565,496		97,232	92,865	1.93	71.2
1974	estimate	7,604,715		97,240	94,452	1.90	71.2
1975	estimate	7,591,218		93,749	96,278	1.82	71.3
1976	estimate	7,564,442		86,946	95,250	1.68	71.8
1977	estimate	7,564,472		85,010	92,538	1.62	72.1
1978	estimate	7,570,199		85,031	94,885	1.60	72.2
1979	estimate	7,552,210		86,210	92,168	1.60	72.5
1980	estimate	7,544,472		90,693	92,629	1.65	72.7
1981	estimate	7,552,340		93,662	92,822	1.67	73.0
1982	estimate	7,582,772		95,019	91,692	1.66	73.1
1983	estimate	7,563,385		90,342	93,316	1.56	73.2
1984	estimate	7,558,941		89,414	88,781	1.53	73.8
1985	estimate	7,562,488		87,679	89,969	1.48	74.0
1986	estimate	7,566,130		87,247	87,352	1.46	74.5
1987	estimate	7,572,660		87,119	85,242	1.44	74.9
1988	estimate	7,575,971		88,445	83,507	1.46	75.4
1989	estimate	7,594,713		88,806	83,644	1.46	75.5
1990	estimate	7,646,100		90,313	83,144	1.47	75.7
1991	estimate	7,713,149		94,240	83,676	1.52	75.8
1992	estimate	7,801,131		95,147	83,440	1.52	76.0
1993	estimate	7,884,293		95,453	82,727	1.51	76.2
1994	estimate	7,930,698		92,796	81,001	1.47	76.5
1995	estimate	7,945,612		89,048	81,515	1.43	76.8
1996	estimate	7,955,031		88,775	81,089	1.45	77.0
1997	estimate	7,966,798		84,116	79,697	1.40	77.4
1998	estimate	7,972,809		81,169	78,548	1.37	77.8
1999	estimate	7,984,122		78,110	78,528	1.34	78.0
2000	estimate	8,003,663		78,059	77,152	1.36	78.2
2001	estimate	8,022,193		75,153	74,939	1.33	78.7
2002	estimate	8,062,272		77,654	76,439	1.39	78.8
2003	estimate	8,101,001		76,261	77,418	1.37	78.8
2004	estimate	8,144,203		78,196	74,623	1.42	79.4
2005	estimate	8,202,779		77,610	75,444	1.41	79.5
2006	estimate	8,255,630		77,359	74,600	1.40	80.0
2007	estimate	8,284,167		75,671	74,718	1.38	80.2
2008	estimate	8,309,737		77,099	75,482	1.41	80.4
2009	estimate	8,336,768		75,974	77,595	1.39	80.2
2010	estimate	8,353,363		78,318	77,427	1.44	80.5
2011	estimate	8,376,820		77,732	76,723	1.43	80.8
2012	estimate	8,409,720		78,433	79,682	1.44	80.8
2013	estimate	8,453,482		78,762	79,638	1.44	81.1
2014	estimate	8,509,331		81,001	78,405	1.46	81.4
2015	estimate	8,586,304		83,579	83,285	1.49	81.2
2016	estimate	8,701,773		87,159	80,857	1.53	81.6
2017	estimate	8,774,058		87,349	83,380	1.52	81.6
2018	estimate	8,823,497		85,407	84,398	1.48	81.7
2019	estimate	8,859,804		84,741	83,684	1.46	81.9
2020	estimate	8,901,948		83,467	84,148	1.44	81.8
2021	estimate	8,940,862		85,345	85,122	1.47	81.8
2022	estimate	8,993,251		82,088	96,596	1.41	81.3
2023	estimate	9,136,103		77,054	93,223	1.32	82.0
2024	estimate	9,124,755		76,247	92,942	1.32	82.1
2025	projection	9,116,871	9.1–9.2 million	75,378	93,229	1.33	82.3
2026	projection	9,110,277	9.0–9.2 million	74,449	93,674	1.34	82.5
2027	projection	9,104,255	8.9–9.3 million	73,498	94,078	1.34	82.6
2028	projection	9,098,731	8.9–9.3 million	72,489	94,601	1.35	82.8
2029	projection	9,093,799	8.8–9.3 million	71,503	95,176	1.35	83.0
2030	projection	9,085,728	8.8–9.4 million	70,448	95,765	1.36	83.1
2031	projection	9,074,965	8.7–9.4 million	69,526	96,471	1.36	83.3
2032	projection	9,063,212	8.6–9.5 million	68,836	97,153	1.37	83.4
2033	projection	9,049,807	8.6–9.5 million	68,270	97,791	1.38	83.6
2034	projection	9,037,164	8.5–9.5 million	67,910	98,512	1.38	83.7
2035	projection	9,021,655	8.4–9.6 million	67,596	99,051	1.39	83.9
2036	projection	9,006,761	8.4–9.6 million	67,460	99,584	1.39	84.0
2037	projection	8,991,730	8.3–9.6 million	67,541	100,122	1.39	84.2
2038	projection	8,973,661	8.3–9.7 million	67,662	100,749	1.40	84.3
2039	projection	8,959,140	8.2–9.7 million	67,983	101,507	1.40	84.4
2040	projection	8,942,441	8.1–9.7 million	68,288	102,282	1.41	84.6
2041	projection	8,925,682	8.0–9.8 million	68,713	103,223	1.41	84.7
2042	projection	8,909,437	8.0–9.8 million	69,197	104,149	1.42	84.8
2043	projection	8,891,911	7.9–9.9 million	69,543	105,368	1.42	85.0
2044	projection	8,874,445	7.9–9.9 million	69,877	106,678	1.42	85.1
2045	projection	8,854,550	7.8–10.0 million	70,088	107,995	1.42	85.2
2046	projection	8,834,910	7.7–10.0 million	70,285	109,367	1.42	85.3
2047	projection	8,813,488	7.7–10.0 million	70,350	110,717	1.43	85.5
2048	projection	8,790,317	7.6–10.1 million	70,338	112,132	1.43	85.6
2049	projection	8,765,375	7.5–10.1 million	70,217	113,591	1.43	85.7
2050	projection	8,738,136	7.4–10.1 million	69,935	114,788	1.43	85.9
2051	projection	8,710,528	7.3–10.1 million	69,629	116,099	1.43	86.0
2052	projection	8,682,843	7.3–10.1 million	69,265	117,260	1.44	86.1
2053	projection	8,653,000	7.2–10.1 million	68,837	118,045	1.44	86.3
2054	projection	8,620,421	7.1–10.2 million	68,292	118,902	1.45	86.4
2055	projection	8,587,351	7.0–10.2 million	67,708	119,376	1.45	86.5
2056	projection	8,553,918	6.9–10.2 million	67,084	119,617	1.45	86.6
2057	projection	8,520,105	6.9–10.2 million	66,496	119,583	1.46	86.7
2058	projection	8,483,689	6.8–10.2 million	65,801	119,317	1.46	86.8
2059	projection	8,447,947	6.7–10.2 million	65,095	118,932	1.46	87.0
2060	projection	8,412,174	6.7–10.3 million	64,440	118,064	1.46	87.1
2061	projection	8,377,217	6.6–10.3 million	63,942	117,143	1.46	87.2
2062	projection	8,342,994	6.5–10.3 million	63,519	116,109	1.46	87.3
2063	projection	8,308,246	6.4–10.3 million	63,093	115,083	1.46	87.4
2064	projection	8,274,099	6.3–10.3 million	62,794	113,892	1.47	87.5
2065	projection	8,242,324	6.3–10.3 million	62,564	112,636	1.47	87.7
2066	projection	8,209,220	6.2–10.4 million	62,360	111,533	1.47	87.8
2067	projection	8,176,879	6.1–10.4 million	62,266	110,473	1.47	87.9
2068	projection	8,146,186	6.0–10.4 million	62,195	109,418	1.47	88.0
2069	projection	8,116,426	6.0–10.5 million	62,226	108,641	1.48	88.1
2070	projection	8,086,683	5.9–10.5 million	62,346	107,895	1.48	88.2
2071	projection	8,058,829	5.8–10.5 million	62,446	107,441	1.48	88.3
2072	projection	8,031,739	5.7–10.5 million	62,598	107,238	1.49	88.5
2073	projection	8,003,694	5.7–10.6 million	62,734	106,830	1.49	88.6
2074	projection	7,977,200	5.6–10.6 million	62,862	106,759	1.49	88.7
2075	projection	7,950,047	5.5–10.6 million	63,025	106,620	1.49	88.8
2076	projection	7,924,569	5.5–10.7 million	63,181	106,635	1.50	88.9
2077	projection	7,898,754	5.5–10.8 million	63,251	106,556	1.50	89.0
2078	projection	7,870,720	5.4–10.8 million	63,288	106,423	1.50	89.1
2079	projection	7,843,691	5.3–10.9 million	63,234	106,168	1.50	89.3
2080	projection	7,817,924	5.3–10.9 million	63,198	105,907	1.50	89.4
2081	projection	7,793,598	5.2–10.9 million	63,138	105,401	1.50	89.5
2082	projection	7,768,640	5.1–11.0 million	63,006	104,817	1.50	89.6
2083	projection	7,743,338	5.1–11.0 million	62,953	104,023	1.50	89.7
2084	projection	7,718,180	5.0–11.1 million	62,743	103,156	1.51	89.8
2085	projection	7,692,513	5.0–11.1 million	62,518	102,062	1.51	89.9
2086	projection	7,668,218	4.9–11.1 million	62,210	100,974	1.51	90.0
2087	projection	7,645,483	4.8–11.2 million	61,846	99,863	1.51	90.1
2088	projection	7,623,959	4.8–11.2 million	61,537	98,476	1.51	90.2
2089	projection	7,601,430	4.7–11.3 million	61,152	97,149	1.51	90.3
2090	projection	7,579,251	4.6–11.3 million	60,815	95,868	1.51	90.4
2091	projection	7,559,122	4.5–11.4 million	60,447	94,513	1.51	90.5
2092	projection	7,539,736	4.5–11.4 million	60,155	93,113	1.52	90.7
2093	projection	7,522,121	4.5–11.4 million	59,920	91,911	1.52	90.8
2094	projection	7,504,682	4.4–11.5 million	59,581	90,743	1.52	90.9
2095	projection	7,488,479	4.3–11.6 million	59,300	89,719	1.52	91.0
2096	projection	7,471,269	4.3–11.6 million	59,031	88,898	1.52	91.1
2097	projection	7,454,617	4.2–11.7 million	58,726	88,236	1.52	91.2
2098	projection	7,437,566	4.2–11.7 million	58,512	87,850	1.52	91.3
2099	projection	7,422,072	4.1–11.8 million	58,315	87,581	1.52	91.4
2100	projection	7,406,830	4.1–11.9 million	58,175	87,565	1.52	91.5

Show the numbers: Austria, mid-2026, by single year of age

Austria: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	38,540	36,514
1	39,085	37,037
2	39,534	37,478
3	41,382	39,248
4	44,067	41,799
5	44,718	42,436
6	44,304	42,108
7	45,072	42,895
8	46,600	44,032
9	47,361	44,632
10	46,782	44,106
11	45,990	43,162
12	45,197	42,506
13	44,736	42,046
14	44,721	41,861
15	44,697	42,085
16	44,353	42,178
17	44,705	42,251
18	45,394	42,965
19	46,012	44,153
20	47,250	45,425
21	48,363	46,214
22	48,626	46,275
23	48,653	46,357
24	48,598	46,162
25	49,368	46,637
26	51,001	48,059
27	52,607	49,460
28	54,698	51,778
29	57,031	54,356
30	58,539	55,942
31	59,848	57,190
32	61,918	59,104
33	63,534	60,520
34	64,716	61,584
35	64,844	62,073
36	64,210	62,079
37	64,152	61,966
38	63,760	61,448
39	62,892	61,158
40	62,879	61,016
41	62,819	61,270
42	62,554	61,582
43	62,976	62,394
44	63,282	63,043
45	62,551	61,640
46	60,216	58,960
47	57,798	57,010
48	56,790	56,555
49	56,541	56,650
50	57,554	57,953
51	58,811	59,856
52	58,993	60,683
53	60,466	62,323
54	63,126	64,730
55	64,895	66,223
56	67,526	68,726
57	70,411	71,140
58	71,184	71,431
59	70,735	71,122
60	70,488	71,126
61	70,297	71,334
62	69,416	71,155
63	67,766	69,596
64	65,433	67,356
65	62,281	64,866
66	59,003	62,126
67	55,581	59,481
68	52,710	57,268
69	50,394	55,921
70	47,040	53,180
71	43,264	49,482
72	40,351	47,059
73	38,494	45,410
74	36,392	43,492
75	34,966	42,394
76	34,475	42,337
77	33,806	42,464
78	33,174	42,452
79	29,553	38,201
80	23,439	31,149
81	22,804	31,554
82	24,119	34,100
83	22,731	32,591
84	22,839	33,428
85	23,143	34,856
86	21,127	32,819
87	15,456	24,962
88	10,410	17,489
89	8,247	14,647
90	6,620	12,710
91	5,294	10,860
92	4,277	9,208
93	3,410	7,712
94	2,574	6,222
95	1,896	4,864
96	1,318	3,639
97	859	2,580
98	546	1,762
99	330	1,202
100+	408	1,926

AUT · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Austria, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AUT · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Austria

Austria had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2023: 5,983,480 people aged 15–64, against 5,983,480 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

22 children

31 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 36 years: 1950 and 1984–2018.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

AUT · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Austria, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Austria gains 49,716 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 7,196 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 1,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 157,365 (2022) and the most it lost was 24,514 (1951).

In 2024, 2,327,064 people living in Austria had been born in another country, 26 of every 100 people there, against 8 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

AUT · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Austria

Of every 100 babies born in Austria in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 74 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 25 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 17 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 76 · 17

2023
1 · 74 · 25

2050 · projected
1 · 73 · 26

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 77,054
Average age when women have a baby: 31.2 years; 28.1 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 4; 35 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Austria by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	18	59	11	3	2	2
15–19	7,878	13,161	3,289	822	529	481
20–24	29,725	33,118	15,183	6,821	5,702	5,237
25–29	34,536	25,486	26,880	21,708	19,329	16,319
30–34	17,299	13,307	22,434	28,359	26,020	20,659
35–39	12,831	6,781	8,722	15,614	14,682	12,224
40–44	4,888	1,692	1,476	3,438	3,312	2,915
45–49	333	145	54	284	353	333
50–54	7	0	10	5	6	5
All babies	107,515	93,749	78,059	77,054	69,935	58,175

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

AUT · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Austria

A baby born in Austria in 2021 could expect 81.0 years of life, 69.8 of them in full health (95% range 69.1–70.5). That leaves 11.2 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

70.5 in full health, 12.8 not: 83.3 years

Men

69.1 in full health, 9.6 not: 78.7 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 70.5 healthy years of 83.3. Men: 69.1 of 78.7. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 70.4.

AUT · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Austria

At the end of 2025, Austria was hosting 308,665 people who had crossed a border into it, about 34 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad308,665
Austria nationals abroad49

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 10,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Austria living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 12,493 people asked for asylum in Austria for the first time; 11 people from Austria asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

AUT · of every 100 people

How people live in Austria

Of every 100 people in Austria in 2025, 33 lived in a city, 26 in a town or suburb and 41 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 5.1 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

AUT · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Austria went in school

Almost every adult in Austria went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 78 finished upper secondary or went further.

6 finished primary 16 finished lower secondary 48 finished upper secondary 30 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2025.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

AUT · cities · 2025

Cities in Austria

Austria had 8 cities in 2025, home to 3.0 million people. The largest, Vienna, holds 22 of every 100 people in Austria.

Vienna2,031,326
Graz298,021
Linz239,484
Salzburg144,603
Innsbruck141,032
Klagenfurt79,848
Wels52,010
Bregenz51,293

How to read this: one bar for each of the 8 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Austria are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.