SALZBURG - Population
48% more inhabitants since 1961
For the last 120 years the Land of Salzburg has acted as a magnet for immigrants, the numerous advantages of its location making it particularly attractive since the Second World War. From 257 000 inhabitants in 1939, the population grew more rapidly than in any other Bundesland (+ 27%) up to 1951. It had risen by a further 47% to 482 000 by the end of 1991, the second-highest increase of any Bundesland. In the 1950s, there was a net migration loss, since some of the refugees who had been taken in at the end of the war moved on. Salzburg shows the strongest growth of the population over the last decade (6.8%) compared to the other Bundesländer, at the census in 2001 being registered 513 327 inhabitants. Three fifths (58%) of the population growth was due to the excess of births over deaths, but net migration also played an important role.
Since 1991, the share of foreigners in the population has risen from 7.9% to 11.7%. The 2001 census showed that 20 in every 100 foreigners were EU (14 of them Germans), 52 Yugoslavs, 15 Turks and 4 from the former Eastern Bloc. Roman Catholics accounted for 74.4% of the population, with 4.4% Protestant.
With fertility slightly above the Austrian average, life expectancy is nearly one year longer than the average for men and the same for women in 2001. In 2001, Salzburg registered more children (less than 15 years of age) than most of the other Bundesländer, and a share of "seniors" (over 60) under the average for the whole country.
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