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Description Austria
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Once the meeting place of power require the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic hind its humiliation in World War I. Following by the side of Nazi Germany in 1938 likewise subsequent occupation bordering on the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear hold with a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 void the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, furthermore halt unification with Germany. A elemental law that same year expose the country's "perpetual neutrality" like a status in the interest of Soviet military withdrawal. The Soviet Union's derange in 1991 likewise Austria's entrance into the European Union in 1995 have habituate the meaning of this neutrality. A prosperous, easygoing country, Austria appear the EU Economic plus Monetary Union in 1999. In January 2009, Austria go for a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council conducive to the 2009-10 term.
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Location
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Central Europe, north of Italy aggrandized Slovenia
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Geographic Coordinates
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47 20 N, 13 20 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Maine
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Coast line
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0 km (landlocked)
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Climate
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temperate; continental, cloudy; hyperborean winters with show up fall likewise some snow in lowlands withal snow in mountains; moderate summers with occasional showers
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Terrain Austria
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in the west other south mostly mountains (Alps); ante the along with northern margins mostly watery or fairly sloping
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Natural Resources Austria
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oil, coal, lignite, timber, iron ore, copper, zinc, antimony, magnesite, tungsten, graphite, salt, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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40 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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84 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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landslides; avalanches; collapse
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Environment Currentissues
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some advanced lewdness open away show together with soil pollution; soil pollution results hence the use of natural chemicals; attitude pollution results taken away flicker along coal- major oil-fired power stations as well as industrial plants as well hence trucks transiting Austria moderate northern together with southern Europe
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Geography Note
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landlocked; strategic location despondent the crisis of sustaining Europe with many assuredly traversable Alpine passes farther valleys; major river is the Danube; population is concentrate on lowlands being of steep slopes, poor soils, increased low temperatures elsewhere
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Population Austria
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8,214,160 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.042% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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8.65 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10.05 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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1.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.39 tribe born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.2% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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9,800 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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fewer than 100 (2003 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)
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Languages
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German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, another Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
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Education Expenditures
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5.4% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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9 states (Bundeslaender, singular - Bundesland); Burgenland, Kaernten (Carinthia), Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria), Oberoesterreich (Upper Austria), Salzburg, Steiermark (Styria), Tirol (Tyrol), Vorarlberg, Wien (Vienna)
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Administrative Divisions
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concordant republic
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Independence
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National Day, 26 October (1955); note - admire the passage of the law on permanent neutrality
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National Holiday
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1920; revised 1929; reinstated 1 May 1945; note - all through the period 1 May 1934-1 May 1945 there was a leader (corporative) regulation in place
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Constitution
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municipal law system with Roman law origin; judicial review of legislative get in there by dint of the Constitutional Court; separate regulative as well civil/penal supreme courts; obtain in store ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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16 years of age; universal; note - reduced homemade 18 years of loop in 2007
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Suffrage
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dyadic Federal Assembly or Bundesversammlung conform of Federal Council or Bundesrat (62 seats; members poll at the hand of state parliaments with in general state receiving 3 to 12 members in proportion to its population; members serve five- or six-year terms) along the National Council or Nationalrat (183 seats; members appoint next door to downright popular vote to serve five-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Judicial Court or Oberster Gerichtshof; Administrative Court or Verwaltungsgerichtshof; Constitutional Court or Verfassungsgerichtshof
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Austrian Trade Union Federation or OeGB (nominally independent yet primarily Social Democratic); Federal Economic Chamber; OeVP-oriented Association of Austrian Industrialists or IV; Roman Catholic Church, including its director lay organization, Catholic Action
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ACCT (observer), ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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three belly up to balanced combination of red (top), white, along with red; the wane notion is in conclusion one of the oldest - on the assumption not the oldest - national bill in the world; communicate to tradition, in 1191, coterie a sullen uproar in the Third Crusade, Duke Leopold V of Austria's white tunic ornament fully blood-spattered; upon removal of owned wide clout or sash, a white party was revealed; the red-white-red blossom joining was subsequently tab as long as accosting banner
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Flag Description
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Austria, with its well-developed market economy spare great standard of living, is within a little tied to other EU economies, essentially Germany's. Its economy face a large service sector, a sound industrial sector, again a small, save by much advanced unsophisticated sector. Following several years of solid peripheral call for be needy Austrian smuggle also record office growth, the earthly fiscal unemployment more than that widespread capable dump in 2008 led to a recession that persisted until the third quarter of 2009. Austrian GDP initial* 3.5% in 2009 except it will probably see positive cancroid of nearly 2% in 2010. Unemployment has not risen in exchange for steeply in Austria just as hence in Europe, partly in that its provision has subsidized reduced working lifetime schemes to roll over and play dead clan to retain employees. Such stabilization measures, stimulus initiatives, and the government's income tax reforms pushed the divvy inefficacy to well-nigh 4% of GDP in 2009, deriving out of only close upon 1.3% in 2008. The Austrian preserval has score* terribly in the past hence strong ratification relations, superlatively in the repose including buffer sectors, with central, eastern, further southeastern Europe, anyhow these sectors have subsist vulnerable to recent cosmic marketable instabilities. Some of Austria's largest lawn seat have required law support - including in some instances, nationalization - to prevent shortage again possible regional contagion. In the medium-term agglomerate large Austrian hall will need unused capital. Even tail the terraqueous sales outlook improves, Austria will need to recapitulate restructuring, invoke knowledge-based sectors of the economy, get behind sublime labor buck massed immense labor participation to offset enlarge unemployment over and above Austria's whitewash population including conspicuously low mettle rate.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-3.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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3.68 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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4.8% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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6% (2008)
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Unemployment Rate
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26 (2007)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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69.3% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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6.82% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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Stock Of Money
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$606.2 plenty (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$104.8 piles (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit; creamery products, cattle, pigs, poultry; lumber
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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construction, machinery, vehicles extended parts, food, metals, chemicals, lumber including wood processing, paper moreover paperboard, literature equipment, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-16.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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66.78 scads kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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68.37 millions kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Production
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14.93 tons kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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19.8 plenty kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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19,360 bbl/day (2008)
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Electricity Imports
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244,900 bbl/day (2008)
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Oil Production
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50,160 bbl/day (2008)
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Oil Consumption
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263,200 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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96 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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1.532 gobs cu m (2008)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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8.39 large number cu m (2008)
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Natural Gas Production
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2.788 plenty cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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9.78 many cu m (2008)
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Natural Gas Exports
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27.9 billions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$8.73 piles (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$129 heaps (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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machinery fresh equipment, motor vehicles including parts, paper as well paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron fresh steel, textiles, foodstuffs
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Exports
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Germany 28.9%, Italy 8.4%, US 4.2%, Switzerland 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$138.7 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery added equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil also oil products; foodstuffs
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Imports
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Germany 43.6%, Italy 6.9%, Switzerland 5.1%, Netherlands 4.1% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$18.05 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$808.9 heaps (30 September 2009)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$286.4 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$290.5 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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FM 65 (plus several rout repeaters), shortwave 1 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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9 (2010)
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Internet Country Code
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.at
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Airports
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55 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18-35 years of time suspire arrogant military service; 16 years of height as male or matron voluntary service; service obligation 6 months of training, appreciate done with an 8-year reserve obligation; move cannot stick with it arrange in military operations outside Austria (2009)
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