Editing Demographics of Austria (section)

==Religion==
{{Main article|Religion in Austria}}
{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in Austria (2021)<ref name=Census>Official census data provided by [[Statistics Austria]]:
* {{cite web|url=http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/bevoelkerung/volkszaehlungen_registerzaehlungen/bevoelkerung_nach_demographischen_merkmalen/022894.html|title=Bevölkerung 2001 nach Religionsbekenntnis und Staatsangehörigkeit|trans-title=2001 population by religious confession and nationality|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20101113171616/http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/bevoelkerung/volkszaehlungen_registerzaehlungen/bevoelkerung_nach_demographischen_merkmalen/022894.html|archive-date=13 November 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=19 August 2022}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.statistik.at/web_de/static/bevoelkerung_nach_dem_religionsbekenntnis_und_bundeslaendern_1951_bis_2001_022885.pdf|title=Bevölkerung nach dem Religionsbekenntnis und Bundesländern 1951 bis 2001|trans-title=Population by religious confession and federal states from 1951 to 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516233026/https://www.statistik.at/web_de/static/bevoelkerung_nach_dem_religionsbekenntnis_und_bundeslaendern_1951_bis_2001_022885.pdf|archive-date=16 May 2022|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.statistik.at/statistiken/bevoelkerung-und-soziales/bevoelkerung/weiterfuehrende-bevoelkerungsstatistiken/religionsbekenntnis|title=Religionsbekenntnis, 1951–2021|trans-title=Religious confession, 1951–2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817162006/https://www.statistik.at/statistiken/bevoelkerung-und-soziales/bevoelkerung/weiterfuehrende-bevoelkerungsstatistiken/religionsbekenntnis|archive-date=17 August 2022|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.statistik.gv.at/fileadmin/announcement/2022/05/20220525Religionszugehoerigkeit2021.pdf|title=Religionszugehörigkeit 2021: drei Viertel bekennen sich zu einer Religion|trans-title=2021 religious affiliation: three fourths profess a religion|type=with comparative data from the censuses from 1951 to 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804235308/https://www.statistik.gv.at/fileadmin/announcement/2022/05/20220525Religionszugehoerigkeit2021.pdf|archive-date=4 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>
|label1 = [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]
|value1 = 55.2
|color1 = DarkOrchid
|label2 = [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]]
|value2 = 4.9
|color2 = Orchid
|label3 = [[Protestantism]]
|value3 = 3.8
|color3 = DodgerBlue
|label4 = Other Christians
|value4 = 4.3
|color4 = LightBlue
|label6 = [[Islam]]
|value6 = 8.3
|color6 = Green
|label7 = Other religions
|value7 = 1.1
|color7 = Red
|label5 = [[Irreligion|No religion]]
|value5 = 22.4
|color5 = WhiteSmoke
}}

In 2001, about 74% of Austria's population were registered as Roman Catholic,<ref name="Volkszählung">{{cite web | title=Census 2001: Population 2001 according to religious affiliation and nationality|url=http://www.statistik.at/web_de/static/bevoelkerung_2001_nach_religionsbekenntnis_und_staatsangehoerigkeit_022894.pdf|access-date=17 December 2007|language=de|publisher=Statistik Austria}}</ref> while about 5% considered themselves [[Protestant]]s.<ref name="Volkszählung" /> Austrian Christians, both Catholic and Protestant,<ref>Tax is only mandatory for [[Lutherans]] and [[Reformed tradition|Reformed]].</ref> are obliged to pay a mandatory membership fee (calculated by income—about 1%) to their church; this payment is called "Kirchenbeitrag" ("Ecclesiastical/Church contribution"). Since the second half of the 20th century, the number of adherents and churchgoers has declined. Data for the end of 2016 from the Austrian Roman Catholic church lists 5,162,622 members, or 58.8% of the total Austrian population. Sunday [[church attendance]] was 605,828 or 7% of the total Austrian population in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katholisch.at/statistik|title=Katholische Kirche Österreichs, Statistik|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref> The Lutheran church also recorded a loss of 74,421 adherents between 2001 and 2016.

About 12% of the population declared that they have [[irreligion|no religion]]<ref name="Volkszählung" /> in 2001; this share had grown to 20% by 2015.<ref name="Kista">[http://www.katholisch.at/site/kirche/article/102078.html Church data] retrieved 14 January 2015</ref> Of the remaining people, around 340,000 were registered as members of various Muslim communities in 2001, mainly due to the influx from Turkey, [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]] and Kosovo.<ref name="Volkszählung" /> The number of Muslims has doubled in 15 years to 700,000 in 2016.<ref name="Islam in 2016">[http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/religion/5263601/Zahl-der-Muslime-in-Oesterreich-seit-2001-verdoppelt Zahl der Muslime in Österreich seit 2001 verdoppelt] diepresse.com, 4 August 2017.</ref>  About 680,000 are members of [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] (mostly [[Romanians]] and [[Serbs]]), about 21,000 people are active [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]<ref>{{cite book|title=2015 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses|publisher=Watch Tower Society|page=178}}</ref> and about 8,100 are Jewish.<ref name="Volkszählung" />

An estimated 15,000 Jews or adherents of Judaism live in Austria, primarily in Vienna – a remnant of the post-World War II community after the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Holocaust]].

*[[Sikhism in Austria]]
*[[Hinduism in Austria]]
*[[Buddhism in Austria]]
*[[Roman Catholicism in Austria]]
*[[Islam in Austria]]
*[[History of the Jews in Austria]]
*[[Pre-Christian Alpine traditions]]

=== Newborn by religion ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Newborn by religion of father 
|-
! style="background:#F0E0F0;" |Year
! style="background:#FFD0C0;" |Catholic
! style="background:#FFFFC0;" |Protestant
! style="background:#E0F0FF;" |Orthodox
! style="background:#E0FFC0;" |Muslim 
! style="background:#dbd9d9;" |Other
|-
| 2019
| 34.68%
|  2.15%
|  3.73%
| 12.09%
| 47.35%
|-
| 2018
| 39.24%
|  2.36%
|  4.29%
| 13.80%
| 40.31%
|-
| 2017
| 43.40%
|  2.68%
|  4.80%
| 14.66%
| 34.46%
|-
| 2016
| 44.35%
|  2.73%
|  4.64%
| 14.82%
| 33.46%
|-
| 2015
| 43.89%
|  2.62%
|  4.40%
| 12.75%
| 36.34%
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Newborn by religion of mother
|-
! style="background:#F0E0F0;" |Year
! style="background:#FFD0C0;" |Catholic
! style="background:#FFFFC0;" |Protestant
! style="background:#E0F0FF;" |Orthodox
! style="background:#E0FFC0;" |Muslim 
! style="background:#dbd9d9;" |Other
|-
| 2019
| 37.73%
|  2.29%
|  4.40%
| 11.66%
| 43.92%
|-
| 2018
| 42.54%
|  2.65%
|  4.99%
| 13.37%
| 36.45%
|-
| 2017
| 47.08%
|  3.01%
|  5.54%
| 14.28%
| 30.09%
|-
| 2016
| 49.26%
|  3.24%
|  5.3%
| 14.59%
| 27.61%
|-
| 2015
| 49.52%
|  3.08%
|  5.08%
| 12.75%
| 29.57%
|}

*In 2017, 41,259 out of the 87,633 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 38,096), 12,514 Muslim mother (father: 12,851) and 2,635 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,352).
*In 2016, 43,190 out of the 87,675 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 38,884), 12,794 Muslim mother (father: 12,996) and 2,841 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,398).
*In 2015, 41,783 out of the 84,381 newborns had a Catholic mother (father: 37,036), 10,760 Muslim mother (father: 10,972) and 2,595 had a Protestant mother (father: 2,212).