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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Austria was 9,178,482 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Austria's population is 9,171,198 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 6.41 times bigger than Austria's.
  • Austria is ranked the 99th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.82% of the world: 0.11% for Austria vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Austria has had an average growth rate of +0.72% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Austria has increased from 8.23M people to 9.17M (11.5% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 12.9% of the population in Austria and 29.6% in Italy.

Austria vs Italy: live population counter

Austria Italy
Current population
9171198
58790597
Population rank 99/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.11% 0.71%
One net population change
11.2 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
6.77 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
5.87 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
59.6 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change +8,813 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +128 -20
Annual growth/decline +46,721 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +0.51% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 132/197 166/197

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

Austria
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Austria Italy Austria Italy
1960 7,047,539 50,199,700 - -
1961 7,086,299 50,536,350 0.55% 0.67%
1962 7,129,864 50,879,450 0.61% 0.68%
1963 7,175,811 51,252,000 0.64% 0.73%
1964 7,223,801 51,675,350 0.67% 0.83%
1965 7,270,889 52,112,350 0.65% 0.85%
1966 7,322,066 52,519,000 0.7% 0.78%
1967 7,376,998 52,900,500 0.75% 0.73%
1968 7,415,403 53,235,750 0.52% 0.63%
1969 7,441,055 53,537,950 0.35% 0.57%
1970 7,467,086 53,821,850 0.35% 0.53%
1971 7,500,482 54,073,490 0.45% 0.47%
1972 7,544,201 54,381,345 0.58% 0.57%
1973 7,586,115 54,751,406 0.56% 0.68%
1974 7,599,038 55,110,868 0.17% 0.66%
1975 7,578,903 55,441,001 -0.26% 0.6%
1976 7,565,525 55,718,260 -0.18% 0.5%
1977 7,568,430 55,955,411 0.04% 0.43%
1978 7,562,305 56,155,143 -0.08% 0.36%
1979 7,549,425 56,317,749 -0.17% 0.29%
1980 7,549,433 56,433,883 0% 0.21%
1981 7,568,710 56,501,675 0.26% 0.12%
1982 7,574,140 56,543,548 0.07% 0.07%
1983 7,561,910 56,564,074 -0.16% 0.04%
1984 7,561,434 56,576,718 -0.006% 0.02%
1985 7,564,985 56,593,071 0.05% 0.03%
1986 7,569,794 56,596,155 0.06% 0.005%
1987 7,574,586 56,601,931 0.06% 0.01%
1988 7,585,317 56,629,288 0.14% 0.05%
1989 7,619,567 56,671,781 0.45% 0.08%
1990 7,677,850 56,719,240 0.76% 0.08%
1991 7,754,891 56,758,521 1% 0.07%
1992 7,840,709 56,797,087 1.11% 0.07%
1993 7,905,633 56,831,821 0.83% 0.06%
1994 7,936,118 56,843,400 0.39% 0.02%
1995 7,948,278 56,844,303 0.15% 0.002%
1996 7,959,017 56,860,281 0.14% 0.03%
1997 7,968,041 56,890,372 0.11% 0.05%
1998 7,976,789 56,906,744 0.11% 0.03%
1999 7,992,324 56,916,317 0.19% 0.02%
2000 8,011,566 56,942,108 0.24% 0.05%
2001 8,042,293 56,976,981 0.38% 0.06%
2002 8,081,957 57,089,824 0.49% 0.2%
2003 8,121,423 57,399,184 0.49% 0.54%
2004 8,171,966 57,828,179 0.62% 0.75%
2005 8,227,829 58,166,682 0.68% 0.59%
2006 8,268,641 58,399,861 0.5% 0.4%
2007 8,295,487 58,756,247 0.32% 0.61%
2008 8,321,496 59,211,181 0.31% 0.77%
2009 8,343,323 59,555,454 0.26% 0.58%
2010 8,363,404 59,819,407 0.24% 0.44%
2011 8,391,643 60,026,841 0.34% 0.35%
2012 8,429,991 60,191,247 0.46% 0.27%
2013 8,479,823 60,311,613 0.59% 0.2%
2014 8,546,356 60,320,707 0.78% 0.02%
2015 8,642,699 60,229,605 1.13% -0.15%
2016 8,736,668 60,115,223 1.09% -0.19%
2017 8,797,566 60,002,252 0.7% -0.19%
2018 8,840,521 60,148,658 0.49% 0.24%
2019 8,879,920 59,729,081 0.45% -0.7%
2020 8,916,864 59,438,851 0.42% -0.49%
2021 8,955,797 59,133,173 0.44% -0.51%
2022 9,041,851 59,013,667 0.96% -0.2%
2023 9,131,761 58,993,475 0.99% -0.03%
2024 9,178,482 58,986,023 0.51% -0.01%
2025 9,171,198 58,790,597 -0.08% -0.33%
2026 9,164,846 58,571,823 -0.07% -0.37%
2027 9,159,036 58,335,864 -0.06% -0.4%
2028 9,153,783 58,094,373 -0.06% -0.41%
2029 9,147,235 57,851,042 -0.07% -0.42%
2030 9,137,754 57,597,622 -0.1% -0.44%
2031 9,126,423 57,333,277 -0.12% -0.46%
2032 9,113,762 57,071,235 -0.14% -0.46%
2033 9,100,660 56,812,747 -0.14% -0.45%
2034 9,086,498 56,548,816 -0.16% -0.46%
2035 9,071,197 56,279,536 -0.17% -0.48%
2036 9,056,140 56,009,844 -0.17% -0.48%
2037 9,039,487 55,737,477 -0.18% -0.49%
2038 9,023,097 55,460,735 -0.18% -0.5%
2039 9,007,376 55,177,508 -0.17% -0.51%
2040 8,990,550 54,889,107 -0.19% -0.52%
2041 8,973,934 54,601,628 -0.18% -0.52%
2042 8,956,944 54,307,412 -0.19% -0.54%
2043 8,939,342 53,997,106 -0.2% -0.57%
2044 8,920,544 53,679,603 -0.21% -0.59%
2045 8,900,652 53,357,669 -0.22% -0.6%
2046 8,879,996 53,025,288 -0.23% -0.62%
2047 8,857,554 52,680,150 -0.25% -0.65%
2048 8,833,340 52,324,241 -0.27% -0.68%
2049 8,807,087 51,959,050 -0.3% -0.7%
2050 8,779,494 51,579,060 -0.31% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Austria increased by 414,870 people (a 5.04% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Austria gained 528,499 (a 6.11% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Austria was ranked 91st most populous country in 2005 and is 99th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th 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 Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

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