Austria

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
8,751,820 1
Urban
58.30% 1
Rural
41.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
17.5% 2
Homicides
0.51 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
17 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
52 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.50 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
82 years 6
Internet Users
81% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$49,670 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
4,938,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
55.75
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
33,611
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,145
First Communions per Year
40,432
Confirmations per Year
31,504
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
17,240
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
60,663
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
6,946
Church Marriages per Year
5,051
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
4,568
Priests
3,673
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
3,223
Catholics per Priest
1,344
Parishes
3,018
Catholic Hospitals
27
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
129