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5 unusual facts about Demographics of Austria


Demographics of Austria

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook and Statistik Austria.

The Social Democratic Party long ago shed its anticlerical stance.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Austria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Only three numerically significant traditional minority groups exist – 14,000 Carinthian Slovenes (according to the 2001 census – unofficial estimates of Slovene organisations put the number at 50,000) in Austrian Carinthia (south central Austria) and about 25,000 Croats and 20,000 Hungarians in Burgenland (on the Hungarian border).

Austrians are a homogeneous people, although four decades of strong immigration have significantly altered the composition of the population of Austria.



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