Austria
Österreich
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Since 2011, Viennese coffee house culture has been on Austria's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 21.1%
- people aged 65 or older
- 1.9M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 30.8%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 24.2 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 31.7%
- women 39.8%, men 21.6%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 4.3%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2021; UN, 2011 census
Languages
17 languages, 7 of them endangered
- YenishDefinitely endangered
- BavarianVulnerable
- FriulianVulnerable
- RomanshVulnerable
- SlovakVulnerable
- Swiss GermanVulnerable
- Walser GermanVulnerable
- Austrian Sign Language
- Balkan Romani
- Carpathian Romani
- Czech
- German
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- Hungarian
- Italian
- Serbisk
- Slovene
- Vlax Romani
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
- Art of dry stone construction, knowledge and techniques2024
- Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock2023
- Traditional irrigation: knowledge, technique, and organization2023
- Lipizzan horse breeding traditions2022
- Timber rafting2022
- Falconry, a living human heritage2021
- Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovation2020
- Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in Europe2018
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List and years: ich.unesco.org
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