Presentation of the Statistical Yearbook 2022 by Statistics Austria and ÖIF as a supplement to the Integration Report – Significant increase in asylum applications
Vienna (OTS) – Statistics Austria and the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) statistical yearbook “Migration and Integration” complements the integration report and provides current figures, data and facts on core topics relevant to integration and therefore offers a Fact-based report base to deal with issues of current issues.
About 3x more asylum requests from Syrian and Afghan nationals
With 39,930 asylum applications, 170.25% more people applied for asylum in Austria in 2021 than in 2020 (14,775). Of the applications submitted in 2021, 37,920 were initial applications, in 2010 called follow-up applications (2020: 1,359). In 2021, the majority of asylum seekers in Austria came from Syria (16,281), followed by Afghanistan (8,739) and Morocco (1,920). Other important countries of origin were Somalia (1,695), Pakistan (1,362), Iraq (1,052) and Bangladesh (1,027). Compared to the previous year, the number of asylum applications for all nationalities mentioned has increased, for the largest groups of Syrian and Afghan citizens has risen to about three times the 2020 figure.
Germans remain the biggest foreigners in Austria
Among foreigners in Austria, Germans are still by far the largest group. As of January 1, 2022, nearly 217,000 Germans lived in Austria, followed by 138,000 Romanian citizens. These are ahead of the Serbian
(122,000) and Turkish citizens (118,000). Bosnia and Herzegovina is in fifth place (97,000). Citizens of Croatia, Hungary, Syria, Poland and Slovakia rank sixth to tenth. There are also large numbers of people from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Italy, Russia, Kosovo and North Macedonia in Austria.
Migrants most severely affected by redundancies due to the Covid 19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the job market. Among foreigners, the participation of the workforce fell -1.7 percentage points in 2020, only to increase again by +1.3 percentage points in 2021. In the case of nationals, on the other hand, there was a drop in 2020 (-0 .9 percentage points) and 2021 (-0.3 percentage points).
The distribution by sectors of work differs between people with and without a migratory background and explains why migrants lost their jobs more often during the pandemic. Immigrants are more likely to work in gastronomy and accommodation (9.2% versus 3.6% for the regular population), construction (8.9% versus 7.1%) and transport (6.3% versus 4, 6%) employees. Migrants also work more often in commerce (15.8% to 13.7%).
11% of foreign language students leave the school system without completing compulsory education
If we analyze the percentage of young people who did not complete secondary education I (“compulsory school completion certificate”), there are large differences both in terms of their first language and gender. Around 11% of non-German first language students who were already 14 years old at the beginning of the 2017/2018 school year had not yet completed compulsory education two school years later, at the end of the 2019/2020 school year. With their German-speaking classmates, on the other hand, it was only 3%. Some of the differences can also be explained by gender-specific dropout rates: around 7% of non-German-speaking girls, but around 13% of foreign-speaking boys completed their education without a mandatory school certificate.
Downloadable ÖIF publications
Further figures, data and facts about migration and integration in Austria can be found in the Statistical Yearbook and ÖIF publications at:
www.integrationsfonds.at/publikationen
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