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Population in Austria compared to France: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Austria was 9,178,482 in 2024 vs 68,516,699 people in France in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Austria's population is 9,171,198 people compared to 68,701,054 in France.

Population statistics:

  • France's population is 7.49 times bigger than Austria's.
  • Austria is ranked the 99th most populous country in the world, while France is the 23rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.94% of the world: 0.11% for Austria vs 0.83% for France.
  • For the last 10 years, Austria has had an average growth rate of +0.72% per year vs +0.34% in France.
  • Since 2005, the population of Austria has increased from 8.23M people to 9.17M (11.5% growth), while France has grown from 63.2M to 68.7M (8.74% growth).
  • France is projected to reach its peak in 2095 at 70.6M people, while Austria's population already peaked in 2024 at 9.18M people and is projected to decrease to 7.45M people by 2100.

Austria vs France: live population counter

Austria France
Current population
9171198
68701054
Population rank 99/197 23/197
Percent of world population 0.11% 0.83%
One net population change
11.2 minutes
2.29 minutes
One birth every
6.77 minutes
46.6 seconds
One death every
5.87 minutes
50.2 seconds
One migration net change every
59.6 minutes
5.81 minutes
Annual migration change +8,813 +90,527
Daily growth/decline +128 +628
Annual growth/decline +46,721 +229,212
Annual growth/decline rate +0.51% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 132/197 147/197

Austria and France: population history and growth rate by year chart

Austria
Population

Growth rate
France
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Austria France Austria France
1960 7,047,539 47,412,964 - -
1961 7,086,299 47,905,982 0.55% 1.04%
1962 7,129,864 48,389,516 0.61% 1.01%
1963 7,175,811 48,877,567 0.64% 1.01%
1964 7,223,801 49,401,492 0.67% 1.07%
1965 7,270,889 49,877,725 0.65% 0.96%
1966 7,322,066 50,311,637 0.7% 0.87%
1967 7,376,998 50,722,791 0.75% 0.82%
1968 7,415,403 51,112,980 0.52% 0.77%
1969 7,441,055 51,536,014 0.35% 0.83%
1970 7,467,086 52,007,169 0.35% 0.91%
1971 7,500,482 52,499,553 0.45% 0.95%
1972 7,544,201 52,962,356 0.58% 0.88%
1973 7,586,115 53,392,161 0.56% 0.81%
1974 7,599,038 53,746,571 0.17% 0.66%
1975 7,578,903 54,002,853 -0.26% 0.48%
1976 7,565,525 54,232,383 -0.18% 0.43%
1977 7,568,430 54,486,467 0.04% 0.47%
1978 7,562,305 54,734,030 -0.08% 0.45%
1979 7,549,425 54,979,851 -0.17% 0.45%
1980 7,549,433 55,274,184 0% 0.54%
1981 7,568,710 55,603,353 0.26% 0.6%
1982 7,574,140 55,806,789 0.07% 0.37%
1983 7,561,910 56,108,330 -0.16% 0.54%
1984 7,561,434 56,383,085 -0.006% 0.49%
1985 7,564,985 56,665,619 0.05% 0.5%
1986 7,569,794 56,956,002 0.06% 0.51%
1987 7,574,586 57,266,167 0.06% 0.54%
1988 7,585,317 57,598,186 0.14% 0.58%
1989 7,619,567 57,943,062 0.45% 0.6%
1990 7,677,850 58,261,012 0.76% 0.55%
1991 7,754,891 58,554,242 1% 0.5%
1992 7,840,709 58,846,584 1.11% 0.5%
1993 7,905,633 59,103,094 0.83% 0.44%
1994 7,936,118 59,324,863 0.39% 0.38%
1995 7,948,278 59,541,294 0.15% 0.36%
1996 7,959,017 59,754,504 0.14% 0.36%
1997 7,968,041 59,968,066 0.11% 0.36%
1998 7,976,789 60,190,684 0.11% 0.37%
1999 7,992,324 60,501,986 0.19% 0.52%
2000 8,011,566 60,918,661 0.24% 0.69%
2001 8,042,293 61,364,377 0.38% 0.73%
2002 8,081,957 61,812,142 0.49% 0.73%
2003 8,121,423 62,249,855 0.49% 0.71%
2004 8,171,966 62,707,588 0.62% 0.74%
2005 8,227,829 63,180,854 0.68% 0.75%
2006 8,268,641 63,622,342 0.5% 0.7%
2007 8,295,487 64,016,890 0.32% 0.62%
2008 8,321,496 64,375,116 0.31% 0.56%
2009 8,343,323 64,706,436 0.26% 0.51%
2010 8,363,404 65,026,211 0.24% 0.49%
2011 8,391,643 65,340,830 0.34% 0.48%
2012 8,429,991 65,657,659 0.46% 0.48%
2013 8,479,823 65,997,932 0.59% 0.52%
2014 8,546,356 66,312,067 0.78% 0.48%
2015 8,642,699 66,548,272 1.13% 0.36%
2016 8,736,668 66,724,104 1.09% 0.26%
2017 8,797,566 66,918,020 0.7% 0.29%
2018 8,840,521 67,158,348 0.49% 0.36%
2019 8,879,920 67,382,061 0.45% 0.33%
2020 8,916,864 67,601,110 0.42% 0.33%
2021 8,955,797 67,842,811 0.44% 0.36%
2022 9,041,851 68,065,015 0.96% 0.33%
2023 9,131,761 68,287,487 0.99% 0.33%
2024 9,178,482 68,516,699 0.51% 0.34%
2025 9,171,198 68,621,995 -0.08% 0.15%
2026 9,164,846 68,720,416 -0.07% 0.14%
2027 9,159,036 68,814,997 -0.06% 0.14%
2028 9,153,783 68,908,044 -0.06% 0.14%
2029 9,147,235 69,000,393 -0.07% 0.13%
2030 9,137,754 69,092,395 -0.1% 0.13%
2031 9,126,423 69,182,139 -0.12% 0.13%
2032 9,113,762 69,271,844 -0.14% 0.13%
2033 9,100,660 69,361,763 -0.14% 0.13%
2034 9,086,498 69,453,221 -0.16% 0.13%
2035 9,071,197 69,545,666 -0.17% 0.13%
2036 9,056,140 69,635,631 -0.17% 0.13%
2037 9,039,487 69,723,960 -0.18% 0.13%
2038 9,023,097 69,807,163 -0.18% 0.12%
2039 9,007,376 69,880,758 -0.17% 0.11%
2040 8,990,550 69,948,192 -0.19% 0.1%
2041 8,973,934 70,013,748 -0.18% 0.09%
2042 8,956,944 70,076,842 -0.19% 0.09%
2043 8,939,342 70,130,305 -0.2% 0.08%
2044 8,920,544 70,172,822 -0.21% 0.06%
2045 8,900,652 70,207,698 -0.22% 0.05%
2046 8,879,996 70,232,113 -0.23% 0.03%
2047 8,857,554 70,246,945 -0.25% 0.02%
2048 8,833,340 70,253,351 -0.27% 0.009%
2049 8,807,087 70,249,312 -0.3% -0.006%
2050 8,779,494 70,237,272 -0.31% -0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Austria increased by 414,870 people (a 5.04% growth), while France gained 3,367,418 people (a 5.33% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Austria gained 528,499 (a 6.11% growth), while France's population increased by 2,152,782 (a 3.23% growth).

Austria was ranked 91st most populous country in 2005 and is 99th in 2025. France was ranked 20th in 2005 and ranked 23rd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Austria's population will shrink by 4.27% to 8,779,494 people with a rank change from 99th to 108th. The population of France will increase by 2.24% to 70,237,272 people and rank change from 23rd to 30th.

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