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- People
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- Population: 7,644,275 (July 1990), growth rate 0.3% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 12 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 11 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: 2 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 73 years male, 80 years female (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 1.5 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--Austrian(s); adjective--Austrian.
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- Ethnic divisions: 99.4% German, 0.3% Croatian, 0.2% Slovene,
- 0.1% other.
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- Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant, 9% other.
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- Language: German.
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- Literacy: 98%.
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- Labor force: 3,037,000; 56.4% services, 35.4% industry and
- crafts, 8.1% agriculture and forestry; an estimated 200,000
- Austrians are employed in other European countries; foreign
- laborers in Austria number 177,840, about 6% of labor force
- (1988).
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- Organized labor: 1,672,820 members of Austrian Trade Union
- Federation (1984).
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