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Geography

Location: Central Europe, north of Italy

Area:
total area: 83,850 sq km
land area: 82,730 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maine

Land boundaries: total 2,496 km, Czech Republic 362 km, Germany 784 km, Hungary 366km, Italy 430 km, Liechtenstein 37 km, Slovakia 91 km, Slovenia 262 km, Switzerland 164 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 7,986,664 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 17% (female 681,087; male 711,127)
15-64 years: 67% (female 2,672,554; male 2,677,100)
65 years and over: 16% (female 791,762; male 453,034)

Population growth rate: 0.35% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 11.21 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.27 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 2.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.9 years
male: 73.7 years
female: 80.27 years

Total fertility rate: 1.48 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: German 99.4%, Croatian 0.3%, Slovene 0.2%, other 0.1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 6%, other 9%

Languages: German

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1974 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Austria
conventional short form: Austria

Type: federal republic

Capital: Vienna

Independence: 12 November 1918 (from Austro-Hungarian Empire)

Constitution: 1920; revised 1929 (reinstated 1 May 1945)


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $139.3 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.5%

National product per capita: $17,500

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3%

Unemployment rate: 4.3%

Electricity:
capacity: 17,230,000 kW
production: 50.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,824 kWh



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