In France, the official figures have been released a few days ago:
Total population: 66.991 million
+265,000 (0,4%)
Natural balance: +198,000 (the lowest since 1976)
Migratory balance: +67,000
Number of births: 785,000, down for the second year in a row, the lowest since 1999.
Fertility rate: 1.93 (2 in 2014)
For the past 2 years, Austria had a bigger migratory balance than France, despite France being 8x as big.
In 2015, the migration balance was around 113.000 and in 2014 it was around 72.000 people.
That is because Austria is not only a magnet for asylum seekers from the Middle-East and North Africa, but also a magnet for people from other EU-countries (mostly Germany and Eastern Europe).
The begin-2017 figures are out next month, but based on the first 3 quarters, I expect the population to have increased by between 85.000-100.000 people last year (+1.0 to 1.1%).
In 2015, growth was 1.4% - one of the highest rates since WW2.
Also, the recent wave of immigration has also reversed Austria's declining birth rate:
It seems likely that 2016 had around 87.000 births, which is 12.000 more than 10 years ago.
The birth rate rose from around 9/1000 to 10/1000 now, while deaths remained largely stable at 9/1000.
A few years ago, Austria had slightly more deaths than births, now births will likely outnumber deaths by around 10.000
