🇦🇹 Austria General Discussion

[Tender Branson]

Vienna police has tasered, shot and killed a 67-year old woman today.

The woman was in need of care and when her care worker came, she opened the door of her apartment with a large kitchen knife in her hand and charging at her care worker.

The care worker escaped and called the police.

Police arrived and then the same scene as before: the woman opened the door holding the kitchen knife above her head and charging at the police officers.

2 police officers fired a taser and a shot at her at the same time, after which the woman bled to death on the way to the hospital.

https://wien.orf.at/stories/3083636

[Tender Branson]

For the first time in 103 years, a pair of lynx have been spotted and captured on camera in Austria.

https://www.diepresse.com/5926754/nach-rund-100-jahren-wieder-luchse-im-raxschneeberg-gebiet-gesichtet

Lynx were extinct in Austria until now, but have made a comeback, similar to the previously exterminated wolves and bears.

[njwes]

For the first time in 103 years, a pair of lynx have been spotted and captured on camera in Austria.

https://www.diepresse.com/5926754/nach-rund-100-jahren-wieder-luchse-im-raxschneeberg-gebiet-gesichtet

Lynx were extinct in Austria until now, but have made a comeback, similar to the previously exterminated wolves and bears.

Exciting news! I love these sorts of stories

Did they come over from Switzerland?

[Tender Branson]

For the first time in 103 years, a pair of lynx have been spotted and captured on camera in Austria.

https://www.diepresse.com/5926754/nach-rund-100-jahren-wieder-luchse-im-raxschneeberg-gebiet-gesichtet

Lynx were extinct in Austria until now, but have made a comeback, similar to the previously exterminated wolves and bears.

Exciting news! I love these sorts of stories

Did they come over from Switzerland?

Since they were spotted in Lower Austria, they are probably Eastern European immigrants.

[CumbrianLefty]

Send them back where they came from!

[Tender Branson]

The Austrian Foreign Ministry has released a video showing Vienna destroyed by a nuclear bomb, resulting in 230.380 dead and 504.460 injured.

Vienna's mayor and the opposition are shocked and call the release of the video "completely unnecessary and fear-mongering".

The background is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons

... which Austria signed, but most countries not.

[Astatine]

The Austrian Foreign Ministry has released a video showing Vienna destroyed by a nuclear bomb, resulting in 230.380 dead and 504.460 injured.

Vienna's mayor and the opposition are shocked and call the release of the video "completely unnecessary and fear-mongering".

The background is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons

... which Austria signed, but most countries not.

Well, it's been known for a while that the ÖVP doesn't really like Vienna, but isn't nuking it going a little bit to far..? 

[CumbrianLefty]

I suppose you could see it as some sort of, ahem, "final solution".

(though of course its more the FPO that is into that sort of thing)

[Tender Branson]

Several people have been deported back to Armenia and Georgia overnight, among them 3 female students aged 5, 12 and 20 who were already born in Austria and which sparked protests from fellow classmates, teachers and politicians such as Vienna mayor Ludwig.

Didn’t matter, the courts have found several times that their mother was an illegal immigrant and rejected their asylum claims several times already.

Now it’s enforced.

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/wien/zwei-schuelerinnen-trotz-protest-abgeschoben/462927454

[Tender Branson]

Austria’s GDP has declined by 7-8% last year according to early estimates by WIFO:

https://think.ing.com/snaps/austria-double-dip-and-more-headwinds-to-come

[Tender Branson]

Vienna is closing in on 2 million people.

On January 1, about 1.92 million people were living there (+10.000 in 2020, or +0.5%) and it is expected to pass 2 million in the late 2020s.

Despite the high COVID-deaths in the last few months of 2020, Vienna still had a birth surplus of more than 1.000 last year (but down from 4.000), while also having a migration gain of 9.000 (mostly from Germany, Romania, Hungary, Afghanistan and Syria).

While Germans, Romanians and Hungarians came from abroad in large numbers, Afghans and Syrian (recognized refugees) also migrated to Vienna from other Austrian states.

https://wien1x1.at/site/bevoelkerungsentwicklung-2020/

[Tender Branson]

Preliminary population data for Jan. 1st, 2021 will be released today by Statistics Austria.

I expect Austria to have grown by 30.000 to 35.000 people last year (+0.35%), despite about 9.000 more deaths than births.

That would mean a net immigration surplus of around 40.000 people, despite COVID.

The population should be around 8.930 to 8.935 million.

[Tender Branson]

My estimates were spot-on:

Austria's population rose to more than 8.93 million at the beginning of 2021

Vienna, 2021-02-11

According to preliminary results from Statistics Austria, 8,933,346 people lived in Austria on January 1, 2021, 32,282 (+ 0.36%) more than at the beginning of 2020. Thus, Austria recorded a slightly lower population increase in 2020 than in the previous year (2019: +42,289 people or + 0.48%).

“Austria continues to grow. After rising 0.36% to 8.93 million in 2020, the population is expected to hit the 9 million mark in the next few years. We are currently seeing the strongest growth in the east of Austria around Vienna, but also in Burgenland and Vorarlberg. The population growth is driven exclusively by people with non-Austrian citizenship. Without them, Austria would not have grown in 2020, but would have shrunk by 0.17%, "says Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas.

Particularly strong population growth in Burgenland, Vienna and Vorarlberg



With + 0.54%, Burgenland recorded the largest percentage increase in population of all federal states in Austria in 2020 - as it did in 2008. The growth in Vienna (+ 0.52%) and Vorarlberg (+ 0.51%) were also well above the national average. Lower Austria and Salzburg (each + 0.40%) and Upper Austria (+ 0.37%) ranked only slightly above the nationwide population growth. The increase in the number of inhabitants was slightly lower in Tyrol (+ 0.33%) and in Carinthia (+ 0.17%) as well as in Styria (+ 0.06%), where the population practically stagnated (see Table 1).

Population growth in 69 political districts, decline in 24 districts



At the regional level (see map) there was a population increase in a total of 69 political districts in 2020, for example in all districts of Vorarlberg and Burgenland. Most districts in Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol also had positive population balances. However, the increases were strongest in the eastern region around Vienna. The three largest increases recorded the districts of Bruck an der Leitha (+ 1.76%) and Eisenstadt-Umgebung (+ 1.47%) as well as the city of Wiener Neustadt (+ 1.43%).

The population figures in 24 political districts declined. There was a widespread population decline in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, in the entire Upper Styria and the neighboring Salzburg Lungau as well as in large parts of Carinthia. The population shrank most in the district of Leoben (-0.84%), in the two cities Krems an der Donau and Waidhofen an der Ybbs (both -0.78%), in the district of Gmünd (-0.74%) and the State capital Innsbruck (-0.70%).

17.1% of the population are foreign nationals



According to the preliminary results, a total of 1,531,262 people with foreign citizenship lived in Austria on January 1, 2021. The proportion of foreign nationals in the total population rose from 16.7% on January 1, 2020 to 17.1% on January 1, 2021. In the course of 2020, the number of foreign nationals increased by 45,039 people (+3.03 %), while at the same time the number of Austrian citizens declined (-12,757 people or -0.17%). Citizens of the European Union accounted for more than four-fifths of the increase in the number of foreign nationals, and only around 18% were third-country nationals. The increase was particularly strong among German (+8,774 people) and Romanian citizens (+8,329), who were also the two largest nationalities in Austria (see Table 2).

https://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/125347.html

[Tender Branson]

Austria's population is becoming more male:

In 1981, there were 896 men for every 1.000 women in the country.

In 2001, there were 938 men for every 1.000 women in the country.

In 2021, there were 969 men for every 1.000 women in the country.

[Tender Branson]

Zell am See grew by 2.6% last year for some reason and passed the 10.000 level.

Maybe it has to do with university students registering their main residence in their original cities again because universities were closed ...

This would explain why Vienna's inner-city districts and Innsbruck lost so many residents last year (they are popular areas for university students to live).

The fastest-growing town last year was Auerbach with an increase of 8.8%, going from 661 to 719 people.

The town with the biggest decline was Namlos, with a 11% slump, going from 73 people to 65.

[Tender Branson]

Ca. 8k people died in Austria in January.

That’s ca. 11% more than the average January between 2016-20.

http://www.statistik.at/web_en/press/125350.html

http://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/125349.html

[Tender Branson]

My estimates were spot-on:

Austria's population rose to more than 8.93 million at the beginning of 2021

Those are preliminary numbers, final numbers are out in May.

The difference between preliminary and final numbers is the following:

* Birth and death data for 2020 is not fully complete yet. Especially births and deaths to people with a main residence here but happening abroad are often reported between February and May. Last year for example, births increased by about 800 between the preliminary February reporting and the final May numbers, deaths by 1.500 cases.

* 90-day main residency requirement (= migration data). According to EU law, you are only a resident and part of the legal population if you have registered your main residence and have lived there for at least 90 days. The preliminary Jan. 1 data does not show these requirements yet, but the final May numbers. For example, a Hungarian might move to Austria and register his/her main residence here before Christmas but leave again after 2 months. In the preliminary numbers, this person would be part of Austria’s population, but not after the final numbers are out.

Usually, the difference between preliminary and final is around 1.000-2.000 people - the final numbers are lower by this amount.

Austria has a 10-year register-based Census on October 31, therefore I assume a population of 8.950 million (+18.000 between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31), or +548.000 (+6.5%) since Census 2011.

That would be the highest 10-year growth since before WW2.

[Tender Branson]

CityPopulation has updated their maps and tables with the new 1.1.2021 data:

https://www.citypopulation.de/en/austria/

[Tender Branson]

Those are preliminary numbers, final numbers are out in May.

The difference between preliminary and final numbers is the following:

So ... the preliminary birth and death statistics for Austria 2020 are out:

https://www.statistik.at/web_en/press/125370.html

83.493 births
90.517 deaths
  7.024 birth deficit

2019 preliminary:

84.221 births
82.303 deaths
  1.918 birth surplus

2019 final:

84.952 births
83.386 deaths
  1.566 birth surplus

Compared to the 2019 preliminary data, births are down 0.8% vs. a year ago and deaths up by around 10%.

So, adjusted for the late reporting between preliminary Feb. numbers and the final May numbers, there were probably around 84.300 births last year and about 91.700 deaths - for a birth deficit of 7.400

The birth rate was ca. 0.95% and the death rate ca. 1.03%

4 states still had more births than deaths last year: Vienna, Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Tyrol.

Carinthia was the only state which registered more births in 2020 than in 2019, but once the final numbers are out, a few others could see increases as well (Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria and Tyrol).

The preliminary infant mortality rate (those who died in their first year) was 0.31%, up from 0.29% in 2019.

[Tender Branson]

In 2020, there were 39.478 marriages in Austria, of which 611 were to homosexual couples.

This represents a decline of 14.2% in marriages compared to 2019.

There were also 14.821 divorces in 2020, a decline of 9.2% compared to 2019.

22 same-sex marriages were divorced in 2020.

(SSM is legal in Austria since Jan. 1, 2019 - so the comparisons to 2019 are a bit wild because of a rush of SSM marriages in the first year ... => new SSM in 2020 dropped by about half compared to 2019.)

https://www.statistik.at/web_en/press/125400.html

[Tender Branson]

So ... the preliminary birth and death statistics for Austria 2020 are out:

Upon a closer monthly look, births in December 2020 dropped by 5.5% here - while deaths increased by 40.4% vs. December 2019.

PDF Link

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

So ... the preliminary birth and death statistics for Austria 2020 are out:

Upon a closer monthly look, births in December 2020 dropped by 5.5% here - while deaths increased by 40.4% vs. December 2019.

PDF Link

Shouldn't we see a major decline in deaths in 2022 and 2023 because of the age dynamics we see in who dies from Covid?

[Tender Branson]

So ... the preliminary birth and death statistics for Austria 2020 are out:

Upon a closer monthly look, births in December 2020 dropped by 5.5% here - while deaths increased by 40.4% vs. December 2019.

PDF Link

Shouldn't we see a major decline in deaths in 2022 and 2023 because of the age dynamics we see in who dies from Covid?

That’s assuming that the situation will improve next winter relative to this ...

Which it should, because of all the old people being vaccinated by then.

[Tender Branson]

A 28-year old Polish woman has been stabbed to death today in Vienna by her 29-year old Austrian boyfriend with "north-African roots":

https://www.krone.at/2350149

First, the guy beat her up after an argument after which she called police, who then immediately tried to find the guy. A few hours later, he returned to the victim and stabbed her to death.

Another one of those femicide cases, which are really frequent here. It seems women need police protection 24/7 after a domestic abuser is ordered away from a woman by court order.

[Tender Branson]

The number of suicides in Austria dropped to a new low in 2020:

1.068 suicides were reported, down by 45, or 4% compared to 2019.

Compared to the 4-year average 2016-20, suicides are down even by 11%.

https://www.statistik.at/web_en/press/125479.html

https://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/125475.html