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Country Sheet : Austria

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Geography

Area : 83,870 km²

Borders : 2,562 km (Czech Republic: 362 km, Germany: 784 km, Hungary: 366 km, Italy: 430 km, Liechtenstein: 34 km, Slovakia: 91 km, Slovenia: 330 km, Switzerland: 164 km)

Capital : Vienna

Official language : German

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Population

Population : 9,197,213 (2025 est.)

Crude natural change rate : -1.2‰ (2024)

Population repartition: 14.3% under 15 years old, 20.3% over 65 years old (2025)

Foreign residents: EU nationals 9%, non-EU nationals 8% (2021)

Crude net migration rate: 5.4‰ (2024)

First time asylum applicants: 16,245 (2025)

Life expectancy: men 79.8 years, women 84.3 years (2024 est.)

Religions: Roman Catholic 73.6%, Orthodox 2.2%, Protestant 4.9%, other Catholics 0.2%, Muslim 3.5%, Alevi 0.7%, other 2.9%, none 12% (October 2024)

Source : Eurostat, Données mondiales, Statistics Austria

Economy

Currency: Euro

GDP: 512,813 billion € (2025)

GDP per capita (PPS): 55 136 € (2025)

GDP growth : 0.6% (2025)

Inflation: 3.2% (March 2026)

Public debt: 81,5% du PIB (2025 est)

Unemployment: 5.8% (February 2026)

Stock of foreign direct investment from the entire world: 44% of GDP (2024)

Budget balance: -4.2% of GDP (2025 est)

Source : Eurostat, Trading Economics, OCDE, WIFO

Political system

Federal republic, parliamentary democracy

Head of State: Alexander Van der Bellen (Greens) was re-elected in the first round of the election on 9th October 2022 with 56.7% of the votes for an additional six-year term. He took office for his second term on 26 January 2023.

Head of Government: On the 3rd March 2025, Christian Stocker was sworn in by the Austrian President. As Chancellor, Christian Stocker leads an ÖVP-SPÖ-NEOS coalition.

Bicameral parliamentary regime: the Bundesrat (Senate), whose 60 members are elected through provincial diets; the Nationalrat (Chamber of deputies), whose 183 members are elected by direct universal suffrage for a period of five years.

Political representation

Composition of the Bundesrat in February 2026:

  • 22 seats ÖVP (People's Party)
  • 18 seats SPÖ (Social Democratic Party)
  • 16 seats FPÖ (Liberal Party, far-right)
  • 3 seats GRÜNE (Greens)
  • 1 NEOS seat (New Austria and Liberal Forum)

Composition of the Nationalrat in April 2026:

  • 57 seats FPÖ (Liberal Party, far-right)
  • 51 seats ÖVP (Christian Democratic People's Party)
  • 41 seats SPÖ (Social Democratic Party, centre-left)
  • 18 seats NEOS (New Austria and Liberal Forum)
  • 16 seats GRÜNE (The Greens)

Women's representations

  • in the government: 6/14
  • in the Nationalrat: 64/183
  • in the Bundesrat: 27/60

Next Elections:

  • general elections in 2029; presidential election in 2028

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