Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Austria was reported at 110 sq. Km in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population density (people per sq. km) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Historical chart and dataset showing Austria population density by year from 1961 to 2022.

Austria AT: Population Density: People per Square Km data was reported at 108.529 Person/sq km in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 108.057 Person/sq km for 2020. Austria AT: Population Density: People per Square Km data is updated yearly, averaging 93.976 Person/sq km from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2021, with 61 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 108.529 Person/sq km in 2021 and a record low of 85.874 Person/sq km in 1961. Austria AT: Population Density: People per Square Km data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Austria – Table AT.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.;Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.;Weighted average;

Austria: Population density, in people per sq. mile: The latest value from is people per sq. mile, unavailable from people per sq. mile in . In comparison, the world average is 0 people per sq. mile, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Austria from to is people per sq. mile. The minimum value, people per sq. mile, was reached in while the maximum of people per sq. mile was recorded in .

From 1273 until 1918, Austria was the seat of power of the House of Habsburg; one of Europe's most powerful and influential royal families of the past millennium. During this time and in the subsequent century since the Austro-Hungarian Empire's dissolution, the borders and demography of the Austrian state have changed dramatically, with the population growing from approximately three million people in 1800 to just over nine million in 2020. The area of modern Austria's population rose gradually throughout the nineteenth century, until the early 1900s, where it then dropped and fluctuated during the World Wars, before rising again until recent years.

End of an empire

The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, caused Austria to declare war on Serbia, which marked the outbreak of the First World War. The war (and subsequent Spanish Flu pandemic) would see the deaths of more than 1.2 million people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the area of modern Austria's population dropped by almost 400,000 people between 1916 and 1920. In the years preceding the First World War, Slavic nationalism and tensions between various ethnicities in the empire had escalated to a new level; following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, new states such as Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created for corresponding ethnic groups, while Austrian and Hungarian states were created for ethnic Germans and Magyars respectively (Austria still uses this border today). The Treaty of Versailles had forbidden Austria from joining Germany, however in 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (who was born in Austria) united the two nations as part of the German Third Reich, with overwhelming support by the people of Austria. In the next few years, Austria's population decreased slightly, as a result of the forced relocation of Jews and the outbreak of the Second World War. Due to the Austria-German union, separate records were not kept for Austrian and German deaths during the war, however most estimates put Austria's total at over 350,000 fatalities.

Post-war Austria

Following Germany's defeat, Austria was split into four separately administered sections, and then the Second Austrian Republic was established in 1955, declaring its permanent neutrality in foreign affairs. In the period after this Austria has enjoyed a period of continued prosperity with a high standard of living and reasonable economic growth. Population growth stagnated in the 80's with the legalization of abortion and improved access to contraception, but has grown steadily in the past three decades. Austria is consistently ranked among the top 20 richest countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita, and in 2018 it was ranked 20th in the world by the Human Development Index.

Daset produced by the Data Stewardship Project, comparing the Austrian population distribution by Age to the population distribution of Vienna.

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76,0 (Inhabitants per sq. km) in 2016.

This statistic shows the median age of the population in Austria from 1950 to 2100. The median age is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population. In 2020, the median age of the Austrian population was 42.6 years.

Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Single person was 17.70% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Single person - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Single person reached a record high of 17.70% in December of 2024 and a record low of 15.50% in December of 2009.

This bar chart displays population (people) by region using the aggregation sum in Austria. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Two adults younger than 65 years was 15.10% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Two adults younger than 65 years - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, Austria - Distribution of population by household types: Two adults younger than 65 years reached a record high of 15.50% in December of 2022 and a record low of 12.50% in December of 2009.

87.8 (Inhabitants per sq. km) in 2016.

This bar chart displays population (people) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Austria. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

This bar chart displays male population (people) by continent using the aggregation sum in Austria. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

This bar chart displays male population (people) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Austria. The data is about countries per year.

This statistic shows the distribution of the population in Austria as of 2016, by dwelling type. In that year 46.9 percent of the Austrian population lived in detached houses and 7.4 percent occupied semi-detached houses.

Austria - Income distribution was 4.34 in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. The income distribution ratio considers the total income received by the 20 % of the population with the highest income to that received by the 20 % of the population with the lowest income.

Austria - Distribution of population by tenure status, type of household and income group - EU-SILC survey was 54.50% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Austria - Distribution of population by tenure status, type of household and income group - EU-SILC survey - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, Austria - Distribution of population by tenure status, type of household and income group - EU-SILC survey reached a record high of 59.20% in December of 2007 and a record low of 51.40% in December of 2022.

77,1 (Inhabitants per sq. km) in 2016.