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Austrian population grows by one percent annually

Xinhua, November 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The population of Austria is currently growing by about one percent each year on the back of an increase in immigration, Statistics Austria revealed on Tuesday.

It said immigration, a large portion of which includes asylum seekers, made up a total of 214,400 people entering the country in 2015. Over the same period, 101,300 people left the country, leaving a net gain of 113,100 persons.

The domestic birth rate meanwhile resulted in only a 1,300-person net increase.

The statistics office said the average population size of the country in 2015 was 8.63 million. This figure is expected to pass the nine-million mark by the end of 2020, and reach 9.43 million people by 2030.

The growth via immigration is helping to delay the effects of an aging population, Statistics Austria said.

Persons aged 20 to 65, considered as working age, numbered 5.34 million in 2015. The figure is to increase by four percent by 2022 to reach 5.57 million , whereafter the effects of larger numbers of the baby boomer generation entering retirement are anticipated to overtake the number of young people and immigrants entering the workforce.

It was also noted that without immigration, Austria would only have 4.83 million persons of working age by 2030, and protracted forward to 2080, this would dip significantly further down to 3.08 million. Endit