STATISTICS Austria announced today that the number of births in the country reached a 20-year high last year.
More than 88.000 children were born in 2016, that's the highest since 1996.
The birth rate (now at 10.2/1000 people) is the highest since 1998 (and up from about 9/1000 in the mid-2000s).
The birth surplus (+8.000) is also the highest in 20 years.
The death rate remains largely unchanged at about 9/1000 inhabitants.
The number of births is up 4.3% against 2015 and deaths down by 3.7%
Vienna had the highest birth surplus with 5.400, while 4 other states also had a surplus. 4 states still had more deaths than births.
The infant mortality rate also hit a new low of 2.9/1000 new-born.
Austria is slowly going the way of Sweden, because the recent immigrants are pushing up our birth rate and lowering the death rate.
Birth rates by state (per 1000)
11.3 - Vienna
11.2 - Vorarlberg
10.6 - Upper Austria
10.4 - Salzburg
10.3 - Tyrol
9.3 - Lower Austria
9.1 - Styria
8.7 - Carinthia
7.9 - Burgenland
Death rates by state (per 1000)
7.5 - Vorarlberg
7.9 - Tyrol
8.2 - Salzburg
8.4 - Vienna
8.8 - Upper Austria
9.9 - Styria
10.2 - Lower Austria
10.6 - Carinthia
11.0 - Burgenland
http://www.statistik.at/web_de/presse/111732.html
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