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Austria Summary

Population 2000 (NSO-Based Estimate '000) 8,008   Population 2000 (UN '000) 8,080
Area (km2) 83,145   Avg. Input Resolution (km) 29
Number of Administrative Units 99   Population Per Administrative Unit ('000) 81
Number of Urban Extents 85   Number of Settlement Points 289

Austria Details

Names
ISO3-Code AUT
Continent Europe
Country Name Austria
Administrative Classifications
Level Used 2.0
Leve1 Type State
Level2 Type Lander
Number of Units 99
Population Per Unit ('000) (2000, estimate) 81
National Population Estimates
Last Year of Reference 2001
NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1990 ('000) 7,773
NSO-Based Estimated Population, 1995 ('000) 7,888
NSO-Based Estimated Population, 2000 ('000) 8,008
UN Population, 1990 ('000) 7,729
UN Population, 1995 ('000) 8,047
UN Population, 2000 ('000) 8,080
National Spatial Estimates
Area (km2) 83,145
Average Input Resolution (km) 29
Settlement Points
Number of Settlement Points 289
Largest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) 1,549,092
Smallest Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) 2,011
Mean Settlement, by Population (2000, estimate) 16,336
Urban Areal Extents
Number of Urban Extents 85
Largest Urban Extent (km2) 1,584
Smallest Urban Extent (km2) 3
Mean Urban Extent (km2) 126
Total for All Urban Extent (km2) 10,738
Largest Urban Extent (population, 2000) 2,140,386
Smallest Urban Extent (population, 2000) 4,283
Mean Urban Extent (population, 2000) 62,225
Total for All Urban Extent (population, 2000) 5,289,123
% Total Land Area in Urban Extents (km2) 13%
% Total Population in Urban Extents (2000, estimate) 65%
% Total Population that is Urban (2001, UN World Urbanization Prospects) 67%
Urban Areal Extents, by Source
Nighttime Lights Data 113
Regression-estimated Extents 26
Digital Chart of the World 1
Other 0
Notes
Administrative Population Source Data:
Statistical Yearbook of Austria 2003, Table 2.05. Statistik Austria, http://www.statistik.at/jahrbuch/pdfe/k02.pdf and http://www.statistik.at/fachbereich_03/bevoelkerung_tab1.shtml .
Administrative Boundary Source Data:
Seamless Administrative Boundaries of Europe (SABE) distributed by MEGRIN: http://www.megrin.org/megrin.html; MEGRIN is now Eurographics: http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_projects_sabe.asps (SABE v1995.2 date of release: 31 Mar 1998).
Settlement Point Population Source Data:
Austria Census 2001, Statistik Austria, http://wwwold.statistik.gv.at/cgi-bin/db2www/blick; City Population, www.citypopulation.de;World Gazetteer, www.gazetteer.de
Settlement Point Coordinate Source Data:
Getty, Times Atlas of the World, 1999, NIMA, World Gazetteer
Urban Criteria for Settlements (UN):
Communes (Gemeinden) with 2,000 inhabitants or more in which less than 15 per cent of the active population is engaged in agricultural or forestry work.
Administrative Population Edits and Notes:
The population of two districts in Burgenland have been assigned as follows: Breitenbrunn has been assigned to Eisenstadt-Umgebung and Oberpullendorf has been assigned to Oberwart
Administrative Spatial Edits and Notes:
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