Austria
Capital: Vienna-
Type of Government: federal republic-
Administrative Divisions: 9 states (Bundeslaender, singular - Bundesland); Burgenland, Kaernten, Niederoesterreich, Oberoesterreich, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol, Vorarlberg, Wien (Vienna)
Age Structure: 0-14 years: 15.6% (male 656,058/female 624,574)
Agriculture: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit; dairy products, cattle, pigs, poultry; lumber
Airports: 55 (2004 est.)
With Paved Runways: total: 24-
With Unpaved Runways:
Area: -.
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Background:
Birth rate: 8.81 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Budget: revenues: $148.6 billion
Coastline: -
Climate: -
Communications:
Constitution: 1920; revised 1929 (reinstated 1 May 1945)-
Currency: euro (EUR)
Current account balance: $1.755 billion (2005 est.)
Death rate: 9.7 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Debt - external: $510.6 billion (30 June 2005 est.)-
Dependency status: -
Dependent areas: -
Diplomatic representation from the US: -
Diplomatic representation in the US: -
Disputes - international:
Distribution of family income: 30 (1997)-
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Ethnic groups: Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% (2001 census)
Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.79697 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001)
Executive branch: chief of state: President Heinz FISCHER (since 8 July 2004)
Exports: $122.5 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Exports - partners: Germany 32%, Italy 8.9%, US 6%, Switzerland 4.8%, France 4.2%, UK 4.2% (2004)
Fiscal year: calendar year-
Flag description:
GDP (official exchange rate): $302.7 billion (2005 est.)
GDP (purchasing power parity): $269.4 billion (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.3%
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $32,900 (2005 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.9% (2005 est.)-
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Government - note:
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 10,000 (2003 est.)-
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Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.5%
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and South American cocaine destined for Western Europe
Imports: $118.8 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)
Imports - partners: Germany 46.3%, Italy 6.8%, Switzerland 4.3% (2004)
Independence: 1156 (Duchy of Austria founded); 12 November 1918 (republic proclaimed)
Industrial production growth rate: 3.2% (2005 est.)
Industries: construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals, chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard, communications equipment, tourism
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.66 deaths/1,000 live births
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (2005 est.)
International organization participation: ACCT (observer), AfDB, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G- 9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MIGA, MINURSO, NAM (guest), NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMEE, UNMIS, UNOMIG, UNTSO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WEU (observer), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTO, ZC
Internet country code: .at
Internet hosts: 387,006 (2004)
Internet users: 3.73 million (2003)
Investment (gross fixed): 21.1% of GDP (2005 est.)-
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Judicial branch: Supreme Judicial Court or Oberster Gerichtshof; Administrative Court or Verwaltungsgerichtshof; Constitutional Court or Verfassungsgerichtshof
Labor force: 3.49 million (2005 est.)
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Languages: German (official nationwide), Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian (official in Burgenland), Hungarian (official in Burgenland)-
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Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.92 years
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write-
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Major infectious diseases: -
Manpower available for military service: -
Manpower fit for military service: -
Manpower reaching military service age annually: -
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Maritime claims:
Median age: total: 40.44 years
Merchant marine: total: 8 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 29,624 GRT/37,425 DWT-
Military - note:
Military branches: Land Forces (KdoLdSK), Air Forces (KdoLuSK)-
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National holiday: National Day, 26 October (1955); note - commemorates the State Treaty restoring national sovereignty and the end of occupation and the passage of the law on permanent neutrality
Nationality: noun: Austrian(s)-
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Natural gas - proved reserves: 24.9 billion cu m (1 January 2002)-
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Net migration rate: 1.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption: 286,200 bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil - exports: 35,470 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports: 262,000 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - production: 25,650 bbl/day (2003)
Oil - proved reserves: 85.69 million bbl (1 January 2002)-
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Political parties and leaders: Alliance for the Future of Austria or BZOe [Joerg HAIDER]; Austrian People's Party or OeVP [Wolfgang SCHUESSEL]; Freedom Party of Austria or FPOe [Heinz Christian STRACHE]; Social Democratic Party of Austria or SPOe [Alfred GUSENBAUER]; The Greens [Alexander VAN DER BELLEN]-
Political pressure groups and leaders: -
Population:
Population below poverty line: 3.9% (1999)
Population growth rate: 0.11% (2005 est.)-
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Public debt: 64.5% of GDP (2005 est.)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 65 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1 (2001)
Railways: total: 6,021 km (3,552 km electrified)-
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
Religions: Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $12.19 billion (2004 est.)-
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Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal; compulsory for presidential elections
Telephone system: general assessment: highly developed and efficient
Telephones - main lines in use: 3.881 million (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 7,094,500 (2003)
Television broadcast stations: 10 (plus more than 1,000 repeaters) (2001)-
Terrain:
Total fertility rate: 1.36 children born/woman (2005 est.)-
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Unemployment rate: 5.1% (2005 est.)-
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