Chart and table of Austria population density from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

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-Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020: Population density datasets for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 – derived from the corresponding Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 population count datasets by dividing the number of people in each pixel by the pixel surface area. These are produced using the unconstrained top-down modelling method.
-Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 UN adjusted: Population density datasets for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 – derived from the corresponding Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 population UN adjusted count datasets by dividing the number of people in each pixel, adjusted to match the country total from the official United Nations population estimates (UN 2019), by the pixel surface area. These are produced using the unconstrained top-down modelling method.

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WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00674

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;

Population ages 15-64, female (% of female population) in Austria was reported at 64 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population ages 15-64, female (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

Population density of Austria went up by 0.96% from 108.5 people per sq. km in 2021 to 109.6 people per sq. km in 2022. Since the 0.46% improve in 2012, population density jumped by 7.26% in 2022. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers.

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.

Global societal material stocks such as buildings and infrastructure accumulated rapidly within recent decades, along with population growth. Material stocks constitute the physical basis of most socio-economic activities and services, such as mobility, housing, health, or education. The dynamics of stock growth, and its relation to the population that demands those services, is an essential indicator for long-term societal resource use and patterns of emissions. The creation of societal material stock creates path dependencies for future resource use, with an important impact on how the transformation towards sustainable societies can succeed.

This dataset features detailed maps of material stock and population, as well as the distribution of jobs, for Austria on a 30m grid. The data is based on recent maps of material stock and building volume (compare to Haberl et al. 2021, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05642), recent and historic census data, and a time series of Landsat TM, ETM+, and OLI Earth Observation data.

Temporal extent

The data contains annual maps from 1985 to 2018.

Data format and units

Per Austrian federal state, the data come in tiles of 30x30km. The projection is EPSG:3035. The images are compressed GeoTiff files (.tif). There is a mosaic in GDAL Virtual format (.vrt), which can readily be opened in most Geographic Information Systems. Please consider the generation of image pyramids before using *.vrt files.

All image data has 34 bands, where band 1 is data for 1985, and band 34 is data for 2018.

The dataset features

• population (Scaled by 100 to reduce data storage size. Divide by 100 to get people per cell)
• jobs (Scaled by 100 to reduce data storage size. Divide by 100 to get jobs per cell)
• mass (in tons) of …
  • total material stock
    • material stock in buildings
      • in commercial and industrial buildings
      • in multi-family residential buildings
      • in high-rise buildings
      • in single-family residential buildings
      • in lightweight buildings
    • material stock in road infrastructure
    • material stock in rail infrastructure
    • material stock in other infrastructure

Further information

For further information, please see the publication or contact Franz Schug (fschug@wisc.edu). Visit our website to learn more about our project MAT_STOCKS - Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society.

Funding

This research was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (MAT_STOCKS, grant agreement No 741950).

Austria population density for 400m H3 hexagons.

Built from Kontur Population: Global Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons Vector H3 hexagons with population counts at 400m resolution.

Fixed up fusion of GHSL, Facebook, Microsoft Buildings, Copernicus Global Land Service Land Cover, Land Information New Zealand, and OpenStreetMap data.

Population ages 20-24, female (% of female population) in Austria was reported at 4.985 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population ages 20-24, female (% of female population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

Global societal material stocks such as buildings and infrastructure accumulated rapidly within recent decades, along with population growth. Material stocks constitute the physical basis of most socio-economic activities and services, such as mobility, housing, health, or education. The dynamics of stock growth, and its relation to the population that demands those services, is an essential indicator for long-term societal resource use and patterns of emissions. The creation of societal material stock creates path dependencies for future resource use, with an important impact on how the transformation towards sustainable societies can succeed.

This dataset is a supplement to previously generated detailed maps of the distribution of material stocks, population and employment across Austria from 1985 to 2018 (10.5281/zenodo.7195101).

The data are aggregated tabular data used to create illustrations in an accompanying data article.

Data format and units

This dataset features:

• Tabular aggregated data of material stocks, population and employment on a municipality level from 1985 to 2018 (in administrative borders of 2018.
  • Note: Only layers used to create illustrations in the accompanying data article are presented as tabular data!
• Municipalities of Austria as as shape file (from https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/stat_gliederung-osterreichs-in-gemeinden14f53#resources)
• Annual population and employment numbers on a federal states level, extracted and aggregated from Statistik Austria (see readme.txt)

Further information

For further information, please see the publication or contact Franz Schug (fschug@wisc.edu). Visit our website to learn more about our project MAT_STOCKS - Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society.

Funding

This research was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (MAT_STOCKS, grant agreement No 741950).

Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) in Austria was reported at 14.94 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population ages 0-14, male (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

Population ages 40-44, female (% of female population) in Austria was reported at 6.5661 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population ages 40-44, female (% of female population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

Chart and table of Austria population from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

76.0 (Inhabitants per sq. km) in 2016.

Population ages 25-29, female (% of female population) in Austria was reported at 6.0627 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Austria - Population ages 25-29, female (% of female population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

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

The Austrian Health Information System (Österreichisches Gesundheitsinformationssystem, ÖGIS) presents an essential tool for health reporting and planning and is designed as a geographical information system (GIS). It offers maps and time series displays as well as simple statistical analysis methods for all epidemiological core topics (e.g. life expectancy, mortality, cancer incidence, hospital frequency, subjective health status). Furthermore, information on nearly all subsectors of the health system (e.g. acute hospitals, rehabilitation centres, general practitioners, and emergency services) is available via ÖGIS.

ÖGIS answers a wide variety of questions, such as the number of implanted hip endoprostheses in Austrian hospitals, the number of inpatients with diabetes or the subjective health perception of the population in the individual federal provinces. In addition, questions about life expectancy or cancer mortality in a particular residential district compared to the Austrian average can be answered.

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

This scatter chart displays urban land area (km²) against population (people) and is filtered where the country is Austria. The data is about countries per year.

Austria: Prevalence of undernourishment, percent of population: The latest value from 2021 is 2.5 percent, unchanged from 2.5 percent in 2020. In comparison, the world average is 10.78 percent, based on data from 167 countries. Historically, the average for Austria from 2001 to 2021 is 2.5 percent. The minimum value, 2.5 percent, was reached in 2001 while the maximum of 2.5 percent was recorded in 2001.