On 1 January 2024, foreign citizens and stateless people made up 19.5%^* of the people living in Austria, against 9.6%^* across the EU — the 4th highest share of the 27 EU states that publish it.

The largest single foreign citizenship among residents is Germany: 239,452 people on 1 January 2025.

In 2024, 128,805 people moved to Austria and 81,477 left: a difference of 47,328^*, more arrivals than departures.

Citizens and foreigners

Residents of Austria on 1 January 2024, by the citizenship they hold. Every line is a separate figure Eurostat publishes; the site adds none of them together.

Residents of Austria by citizenship, 1 January 2024
Citizenship	People	Share of residents
All residents	9,158,750	—
Foreign citizens and stateless peopleOne group Eurostat publishes, shown beside the lines below	1,784,881	19.5%^*
Citizens of Austria	7,357,884	80.3%^*
Citizens of other EU countries	901,726	9.8%^*
Citizens of countries outside the EU	878,376	9.6%^*
Stateless people	4,779	0.05%^*
Citizenship not stated	15,985	0.2%^*

Against the other EU states

Foreign citizens and stateless people as a share of residents on 1 January 2024, for the states ranked next to Austria. Only states that publish both figures that year are ranked.

Foreign-citizen share, Austria and the states ranked next to it, 1 January 2024
Rank	Country	Foreign citizens and stateless people, share of residents
2	Malta	28.1%^*
3	Cyprus	24.0%^*
4	Austria	19.5%^*
5	Estonia	17.9%^*
6	Ireland	15.3%^*
—	European Union (27, from 2020) (reference, not ranked)	9.6%^*

Ranks compare the 27 EU member states. Eurostat’s figure for Cyprus covers the government-controlled area only.

Largest foreign citizenships

Residents of Austria by individual citizenship on 1 January 2025, the ten largest of the 197 citizenships Eurostat publishes. This is the citizenship people hold, not where they were born and not their ethnicity.

Ten largest foreign citizenships among residents of Austria, 1 January 2025
Rank	Citizenship	People	Share of residents
1	Germany	239,452	2.60%^*
2	Romania	155,715	1.69%^*
3	Türkiye	124,788	1.36%^*
4	Serbia	122,459	1.33%^*
5	Hungary	112,376	1.22%^*
6	Croatia	109,359	1.19%^*
7	Syria	104,833	1.14%^*
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	100,764	1.10%^*
9	Ukraine	87,927	0.96%^*
10	Poland	67,543	0.73%^*

Country of birth

Residents of Austria by where they were born, on 1 January 2025. This is a different question from citizenship: someone born abroad may hold Austria's citizenship, and someone born in Austria may not.

Residents of Austria by country of birth, 1 January 2025
Country of birth	People	Share of residents
All residents	9,197,213	—
Born in Austria	7,112,135	77.3%^*
Born in another country	2,069,404	22.5%^*
Born in another EU country	894,264	9.7%^*
Born outside the EU	1,175,140	12.8%^*
Country of birth not stated	15,674	0.2%^*

Arrivals and departures

People who moved to or left Austria during each calendar year, as reported to Eurostat. Arrivals and departures are separate published figures; the difference is the site's subtraction of the two for the same year.

Arrivals, departures and their difference, Austria, 2024 and earlier years
Year	Arrived	Left	Arrived minus left
2024	128,805	81,477	47,328^*
2023	147,591	74,036	73,555^*
2022	201,622	74,271	127,351^*
2021	118,511	67,299	51,212^*
2020	103,565	62,581	40,984^*
2019	109,167	68,280	40,887^*

By citizenship, 2024

Arrivals and departures by the citizenship of the person moving. Each line is a separate published figure; none is added to another.

Arrivals and departures by citizenship, Austria, 2024
Citizenship	Arrived	Left
Citizens of Austria	8,832	14,463
Citizens of other EU countries	58,781	42,268
Citizens of countries outside the EU	60,863	24,597
Stateless people	234	41
Citizenship not stated	95	108

How to read these figures

Citizenship is the legal bond between a person and a state. Country of birth is where a person was born. They are different facts and different tables, and neither records ethnicity, origin or descent.
Residents counted at 1 January are a stock; arrivals and departures are events during a calendar year. A flow is never a change in a stock, and the two are not divided by each other here.
Eurostat takes each country’s own statistics. Countries differ in who counts as an arrival or a resident, so comparisons between countries are approximate.

Cyprus, covered in full

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Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union) and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

A share of residents, computed by dividing one published count by another from the same table, country and date (for example foreign citizens by all residents).
A country's rank among the EU states for its foreign-citizen share, computed by sorting the published figures of the states that publish both counts for the year.
The difference between published immigration and published emigration for the same country and year (arrivals minus departures). It is a subtraction of two published figures, not a net-migration figure published by Eurostat.
The ten largest individual citizenships, selected by sorting the published figures for the latest year in which most countries are published.

Source: Eurostat. Reuse terms.

^* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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