Austria

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Facts

Population: 8,199,783 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 15.1% (male 633,375/female 603,459) 15-64 years: 67.5% (male 2,781,291/female 2,749,539) 65 years and over: 17.5% (male 585,747/female 846,372) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 0.077% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 8.69 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 9.84 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 1.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.012 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.692 male(s)/female total population: 0.953 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 4.54 deaths/1,000 live births male: 5.56 deaths/1,000 live births female: 3.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.21 years male: 76.32 years female: 82.26 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.37 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 10,000 (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.).

Nationality: noun: Austrian(s) adjective: Austrian.

Ethnic groups: Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% (2001 census).

Religions: Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census).

Languages: German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene,official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census).

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: NA female: NA.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $283.8 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 3.3% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $34,600 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.8% industry: 30.4% services: 67.8% (2005).

Labor force: 3.88 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 3% industry: 27% services: 70% (2005 est.).

Population below poverty line: 5.9% (2004).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.3% highest 10%: 22.5% (2004).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 4.9% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $155.9 billion expenditures: $161.6 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit; dairy products, cattle, pigs, poultry; lumber.

Industries: construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals, chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard, communications equipment, tourism.

Industrial production growth rate: 5.7% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 64.9 billion kWh (2005 est.).

Electricity - consumption: 65.2 billion kWh (2005 est.).

Electricity - exports: 17.73 billion kWh (2005 est.).

Electricity - imports: 20.4 billion kWh (2005 est.).

Exports: $133.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs.

Exports - partners: Germany 31.2%, Italy 8.7%, US 5.8%, Switzerland 5.2%, France 4.2% (2005).

Imports: $134.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products; foodstuffs.

Imports - partners: Germany 45.9%, Italy 6.6%, Switzerland 4.5% (2005).

Debt - external: $594.3 billion (October 2006 est.).

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $681 million (2004).

Currency (code): euro (EUR) note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries.

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.