List of censuses in Austria

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The list of censuses in Austria provides an overview of the results of all censuses in Austria since 1869 for territorial status on May 15, the 2,001th

First censuses

The first census (“description of the soul”) took place in Austria in 1754 under the monarch Maria Theresa . After 1769, no complete censuses were carried out due to resistance from the nobility and the Catholic Church.

On March 23, 1857, Emperor Franz Joseph I issued an imperial ordinance for the Austrian Empire , at that time still including Hungary, with the provision of censuses . The survey of October 31, 1857 on the basis of this ordinance was assessed as inadequate, since only the native population was counted, but not the population actually present. As a result of this and technical problems, the Emperor and the Reichsrat replaced the imperial ordinance for Cisleithanien on March 29, 1869 at the instigation of Prime Minister Eduard Taaffe and Interior Minister Carl Giskra with a census law and the first census under this law took place on December 31, 1869. The law stipulated that the next count should be carried out on December 31, 1880, and further counts every ten years. With the Kingdom of Hungary , which has been politically independent from Austria since the compromise of 1867 , agreement was reached that this counting rhythm is also used in Hungary.

Austria-Hungary

According to the first census under the new law, 1869, censuses took place every ten years until World War I (1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910). At the last census on December 31, 1910, the total population was 51,390,223, of which the Austrian half of the empire accounted for 28,571,934.

The population at that time in what is now Austria's territory (based on the territorial status of May 15, 2001) could be calculated from these data:

date Area in km²
(May 15, 2001) ¹
Population ¹ Inhabitants
per km²
December 31, 1869 83,871 4,497,880 54
December 31, 1880 83,871 4,963,528 59
December 31, 1890 83,871 5,417,360 65
December 31, 1900 83,871 6,003,845 72
December 31, 1910 83,871 6,648,310 79

¹ Current territorial status

First republic

A census also took place in Austria in 1920, but this was poorly prepared and the results were therefore unusable. The same applies to the 1923 census.

The population of the First Republic according to the territorial status of May 15, 2001:

date Area in km²
(May 15, 2001) ¹
Population ¹ Inhabitants
per km²
March 7, 1923 83,871 6,534,742 78
March 22, 1934 83,871 6,755,318 81

¹ Current territorial status

German Empire

In the Greater German Reich , a census was held 1939th For Austria (territorial status May 31, 2001) the following result was obtained at that time:

date Area in km²
(May 15, 2001) ¹
Population ¹ Inhabitants
per km²
May 17, 1939 83,871 6,652,567 79

¹ Current territorial status

Second republic

Between 1951 and 2001, the censuses were again held every ten years. The 2001 census was the last conventional census in Austria that was collected using questionnaires. In the future, the census will be carried out in the form of a register census and the results of the 2006 trial census are already available. The first real census will be carried out for 2011, with results expected in 2013.

"Classic" censuses

The population of the Second Republic according to the territorial status of May 15, 2001:

date Area in km²
(May 15, 2001) ¹
Population ¹ Inhabitants
per km²
June 1, 1951 83,871 6,933,905 83
March 21, 1961 83,871 7,073,807 84
May 12, 1971 83,871 7,491,526 89
May 12, 1981 83,871 7,555,343 90
May 15, 1991 83,871 7,795,786 93
May 15, 2001 83,871 8,032,926 96

¹ Current territorial status

Register counts

The population of the Second Republic by territory:

date Area in km²
1)
Population
1)
Inhabitants
per km²
October 31, 2006 2) 83,871 8,281,295 99
October 31, 2011 3) 83,871 8,401,940 100

1) Current territorial status
2) Trial count
3) Final result.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. RGBl. No. 67/1857 (= p. 167)
  2. RGBl. No. 67/1869 (= p. 307)
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  4. Source: Statistics Austria, census results 1869–2001 for the area as of May 15, 2001
  5. Source: Statistics Austria, census results 1869–2001 for the area as of May 15, 2001
  6. see also list of censuses in Germany
  7. Source: Statistics Austria, census results 1869–2001 for the area as of May 15, 2001
  8. Source: Statistics Austria, census results 1869–2001 for the area as of May 15, 2001
  9. Source: Report on the sample register census 2006 as PDF (10 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.statistik.at  
  10. Source: Statistics Austria press release of June 21, 2013

literature

  • Christel Durdik: Population and social statistics in Austria in the 18th and 19th centuries; in: Helczmanovszki, Heimold (Hrsg.): Contributions to the population and social history of Austria, Vienna 1973, pp. 225–266
  • Johannes Ladstätter: Change in the survey and processing goals of the censuses since 1869; in: Helczmanovszki, Heimold (Ed.): Contributions to the population and social history of Austria, Vienna 1973, pp. 267–294
  • Austrian Central Statistical Office (Ed.): From the Direction of Administrative Statistics 1840 to the Austrian Central Statistical Office 1990, Vienna 1990
  • Statistics Austria (Ed.): Sample count 2006. Results and evaluation, Vienna 2009.

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