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  • Population.......................................................................8,205,533 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate .............................................................0.064% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate....................................................8.66 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate...................................................9.91 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate...............................1.88 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • 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)
Member of what is now the European Union since 1995.
Country Profile
Austria: A Country of Immigration?
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Data
Check out Austrian International Migration Data
in the Global Data Center
Neighboring Countries

Germany
Italy
Switzerland
 Hungary
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Liechtenstein
Slovenia
Other Resources

Central Statistics Office
http://www.statistik.at/index_englisch.shtml

Austrian Foreign Ministry
http://www.bmaa.gv.at/

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
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