Editing Upper Austria (section)

==Demographics==
As of January 1, 2021, 1,495,608 people resided in the state, of which 107,318 (7.17 percent) were [[European Union]]/[[European Economic Area]]/[[Switzerland]]/[[UK]] citizens and 96,623 (6.46 percent) were third-country nationals.<ref>Statistik Austria</ref> 

The majority of Upper Austrians are [[Christians|Christian]]. In 2001, 79.4 percent of the people still belonged to the [[Roman Catholic church]], about 4.4% were members of the [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Lutheran Church]], 4.0 percent were [[Muslims]], and 8.8 percent were of no confession.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glaube & Religion |url=https://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/files/publikationen/praes_religion.pdf}}</ref> By the end of 2020, the proportion of Catholics had fallen to 62 percent, while the corresponding proportion of Protestants was about 3.1 percent of the Upper Austrian population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirchliche Statistik: Eintritte, Austritte, Pastoraldaten |url=https://www.katholisch.at/statistik |access-date=2022-01-26| publisher=www.katholisch.at |language=de}}</ref>

In the last census in 2021, 73.4% of people were Christians, overwhelmingly Catholic, around 7.4% practiced Islam and 17.3% practiced no faith. By the end of 2022, the proportion of Catholics has decreased to 58.9%, and around 3% of the population were members of Austria’s national [[Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria|Lutheran]] church. At the end of 2023, a good 800,000 of the 1.53 million inhabitants were Catholic and 43,847 or almost 3% were Protestant.

=== Population development ===
After [[World War II]], Upper Austria received a million [[refugee]]s. The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[United States of America|American]] armies occupied Upper Austria as hundreds of thousands of people fled from both sides of the land front.<ref>{{cite book | editor1=Ronald W. Zweig| editor2=Thomas Albrich |title=Escape Through Austria: Jewish Refugees and the Austrian Route to Palestine |publisher= Frank Cass |year=2002 |page=15 |isbn=9780714652139 }}</ref>{{Historical populations|1869|736,856|1880|760,091|1890|786,496|1900|810,854|1910|853,595|1923|876,698|1934|902,965|1939|927,583|1951|1,108,720|1961|1,131,623|1971|1,229,972|1981|1,269,540|1991|1,333,480|2001|1,376,797|2011|1,413,762|2021|1,504,237|align=right|cols=1|source=Censuses<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic Censuses - STATISTICS AUSTRIA|url=https://www.statistik.at/en/statistics/population-and-society/population/population-stock/historic-censuses|publisher=Statistics Austria}}</ref>}} 

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