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Immigration in Austria on the Rise: Vienna Has 40.9% Foreign-Born Residents, Skilled Worker Inflow Remains Slow
According to the latest brochure “Bundesländer” (Federal States) published by the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF), the number of people born abroad living in Austria has continued to rise. As of January 1, 2025, 22.7 percent of the total population, or 2.085 million people, were born abroad. In the previous year, this figure was 22.3 percent.
Parallel to rising overall immigration, Austria continues to struggle to compete internationally in the “war for talent.” / Picture: © BMI Bundesministerium für Inneres / Alexander Tuma
The largest group of immigrants continues to be those born in Germany, numbering around 270,500. They are followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina (179,800), Turkey (166,800), and Romania (148,600). Ukraine (88,700) ranks eighth among countries of origin.
The regional distribution is highly uneven: almost 40 percent of all migrants live in Vienna, where 40.9 percent of the population…
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