Population by citizenship and country of birth
Long-term trend
In 1961 roughly 100 000 foreign citizens lived in Austria representing a share of about 1.4% of the total population at the time. At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s the foreign population in Austria increased strongly in both total and relative numbers due to the systematic recruitment of labour migrants from former Yugoslavia and Turkey. Thus in 1974 a preliminary maximum was reached at 311 700 foreign citizens (4.1% of the total population). Strong gains from international migration at the beginning of the 1990s resulted in a corresponding increase in the proportion of non-nationals. Following a short period of stagnation during the second half of the 1990s, the number of foreign citizens in Austria started to increase again after the millennium and for the first time reached a share of more than 10% of the population at 1st January 2008.
Current annual results
On 1st January 2011, some 927 612 people with foreign citizenship lived in Austria. This represents a share of about 11.0% of the total population of Austria. Of foreign citizens more than 359 000 were citizens of other Member States of the European Union, 202 000 of which came from the 14 countries that had joined the EU prior to 2004. A further 104 000 held the citizenship of the ten accession countries of 2004 while there were some 53 000 people of Bulgarian and Romanian citizenship. Besides, some 294 000 citizens of former Yugoslavia lived in Austria on 1st January 2011 as well as some 113 000 Turkish citizens. A little more than 106 000 people held the citizenship of a non-European country of which persons from Asia formed the largest group with less than 64 500 people.
Please consult our German website for tables and charts containing further information.
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