Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Economy

be 31.0% less likely to be unemployed

In Sweden, 7.6% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Austria, that number is 5.2% as of 2023.

Life

be 40.9% more likely to die during infancy

In Sweden, approximately 2.3 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Austria, on the other hand, 3.2 children do as of 2022.

have 13.1% fewer children

In Sweden, there are approximately 10.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Austria, there are 9.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Expenditures

spend 29.2% less on education

Sweden spends 7.2% 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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