Quality of life comparison
compared to
If you lived in Austria instead of Holy See (Vatican City), you would:
Basic Needs
be 24.0% more likely to have internet access
In Holy See (Vatican City), approximately 75.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Austria, about 93.0% do as of 2021.
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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