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At 20.1 percent, the proportion of people not born in Austria is higher than ever before. This is shown by the current migration report.
When politicians speak of “dear Austrians, dear people living in Austria,” the current report of the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) shows exactly who is meant. The ÖIF publishes the latest figures on migration and integration.
The key points: With almost 1.798 million people, there have never been so many people with a foreign place of birth living in Austria as at the beginning of 2021. This corresponds to 20.1 percent of the total population – or every fifth person living in Austria.
Since the great wave of refugees in 2015, the number has grown by another 200,000 people. Around 244,900 people born in Germany represented the largest group as of January 1, 2021, followed by people born in Bosnia-Herzegovina (172,400). In third place were persons born in Turkey (159,100).
There are major differences in the distribution within Austria. Of the approximately 1.8 million immigrants, 39.6 percent live in Vienna. Upper Austria follows at a huge distance with 13.5 percent and Lower Austria with 12.4 percent. Burgenland (2 percent) and Carinthia (4.1 percent) bring up the rear.
Pandemic put the brakes on immigration from abroad
However, while the numbers in Vienna, Lower Austria and Carinthia declined slightly in a five-year comparison, immigrants increasingly moved to Styria and Upper Austria. In relation to the respective total population of a federal state, the share of the foreign-born population was also highest in Vienna (37.1 percent). However, this was followed by the provinces of Vorarlberg (21.6 percent) and Salzburg (19.9 percent) in second and third place.
What is striking is that the pandemic put the brakes on immigration somewhat in 2020. Around 136,300 people immigrated to Austria from abroad – in 2019, the figure was 150,400. From non-EU countries, immigrants in 2020 came mainly from Serbia, Syria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
— source: krone.at/picture: pixabay.com
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