Foreign Citizens Make up More Than 30% of the Viennese Population

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: February 19, 2019; 16:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

At the beginning of 2019, 30.2% of people living in Vienna had foreign citizenship. Nationwide this figure is 1,439,401 or 16.2% of the total population.

The largest three foreign nationalities in Austria are German (192,462), Serbian (121,547) and Turkish (117,262). / Picture: © BMI Bundesministerium für Inneres / Alexander Tuma

According to the preliminary results of Statistics Austria, a total of 1,439,401 people with foreign citizenship lived in Austria on 1 January 2019.

This corresponds to 16.2% of the total population and an increase of 43,521 compared to the beginning of 2018.

The largest three nationalities were German (192,462), Serbian (121,547) and Turkish (117,262).

Compared…