(ANSA) - TRIESTE - In 2013, Austria's population amounted to 8.48 million. In 2030, according to projections that take into account fertility, mortality and migration processes, the Austrians will be 9.19 million (+8%) and 9.62 million in 2060 (+13%), according to estimates by Statistik Austria. The demographic change should be non-homogeneous: Vienna should record ''the biggest increase in population by 2060'' (+ 25%), followed by Lower Austria (+ 17%), Tyrol and Vorarlberg (+16%), Upper Austria (+11%), Burgenland (+10%). Stagnation in Styria (+ 4%), whereas there will be a decrease in Carinthia's population (-7% in 2060).

This population growth will also be accompanied, as usual, in the Western world, by an ''aging''. Children and young people under-20 in 2060 will account for 19% of the population (compared to 20% in 2013). At the national level, the number of elderly people will grow , from 18% in 2013 to 29% in 2060, with peaks in Carinthia (34%) and Burgenland (33%), which are already the regions that have the highest percentages of elderly people in Austria. Vienna, on the contrary, will remain the ''youngest'' city (elderly, 23% in 2060). The average age in Austria will increase from 42.1 in 2013 to 46.9 in 2060. In 2013, 1.37 million people were born abroad, but they live in Austria (16%); they will be 22% in 2030 (1.99 million, + 44%) and 26% in 2060 (2.47 million, + 80%). In Vienna, the percentage will rise to 42%. (ANSA).