Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Austria instead of Belgium, you would:

Economy

be 20.3% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Belgium, 12.3% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Austria, however, that number is 14.8% as of 2021.

Life

have 13.9% fewer children

In Belgium, there are approximately 10.8 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Austria, there are 9.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 23.9% less on education

Belgium spends 6.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Austria spends 5.1% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Austria: At a glance

Austria is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 82,445 sq km. Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet military withdrawal. The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995 have altered the meaning of this neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the EU Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.
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