Key data Upper Austria
GEOGRAPHICAL DATA
Area: 11,981 sq.km
14.3 per cent of national territory, fourth largest federal region
Most important rivers: Danube, Inn, Enns, Traun, Steyr
Largest lake: Attersee - 45.9 sq.km
Highest mountain: Dachstein - 2,995 m
POPULATION (2001)
1.377 million inhabitants
17 per cent of the Austrian population, third populous federal region
115 persons / sq.km
543,500 households with an average of 2.5 persons
RELIGIONS
Roman Catholic: 79.4 per cent
Protestant: 4.4 per cent
Islamic: 4.0 per cent
Without confession: 8.8 per cent
Others: 3.3 per cent
LABOUR MARKET / EMPLOYMENT
Since 2000 Upper Austria has the lowest unemployment rate of all Austrian Länder, constantly below 5 per cent, and an employment rate of 72 per cent.
Since the end of the 90’s Upper Austria shows growth rates significantly above national level each year.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
- Parliament with 56 members
- Government with a total of 9 members under the presidency of the Minister-president
- 3 statutory cities (Linz, Wels, Steyr)
- 15 districts, 444 municipalities
UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS
- Johannes Kepler University, Linz (social and economic sciences, technical and natural sciences, law)
- Catholic-Theological private university, Linz
- Anton Bruckner private university for music, drama and dance, Linz
- University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz
- Polytechnic Linz with core competence "health and social issues"
- Polytechnic Wels with core competence "technics and economics"
- Polytechnic Steyr with core competence "management and leadership"
- Polytechnic Hagenberg with core competence "IT and media"
FOREIGN TRADE / EXPORTS 2003
Approximately 17 billion Euros per year, around 66 per cent of that into the EU-15 and more than 18 per cent to the new EU-Member States and the rest of Europe.
The share of total Austrian exports is about 26 per cent.