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Catholicism is the largest religion in Austria, representing 57.9% [11] of the total population in 2017. The Catholic Church 's governing body in Austria is the Austrian Conference of Catholic Bishops, made up of the hierarchy of the two archbishops (Vienna, Salzburg), the bishops and the abbot of territorial abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau .
Austria does not collect data on the ethnicity or race of its citizens but does collect data on the nationality of residents currently in the country. [16] According to the Austrian Statistical Bureau, 814,800 foreigners legally lived in Austria in mid-2006, representing 9.8% of the total population, one of the highest rates in Europe.
Islam in Austria is the largest minority religion in the country, practiced by 7.9% of the total population in 2016 according to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [2] The majority of Muslims in Austria belong to the Sunni denomination. [3] Most Muslims came to Austria during the 1960s as migrant workers from Turkey and Yugoslavia.
Distribution of the German language in Austria-Hungary in 1910 Ethno-linguistic map of Austria-Hungary, 1910. (Rusyns are registered as Ukrainians) In the Austrian Empire (Cisleithania), the census of 1911 recorded Umgangssprache, everyday language.
According to government estimates, in 2022, Roman Catholics make up over 55% of the population. [3] Followers of Eastern Orthodoxy make up 4.9%, Protestants make up 3.8% and Muslims (mainly Sunni) make up 8.3%. Over 22% of the population follows no religion, while the remainder includes Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, and other religious groups. [1]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
A map of Catholicism by population percentage. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. [1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022.
The Austrian church is the largest Christian Confession of Austria, with 4.64 million members (50.6 % of the total Austrian population) in 2023. [ 1 ] For more than 50 years, however, the proportion of Catholics has decreased, primarily due to secularization and migration (from 89% in 1961 to 52% in 2022).